BLUES: Elizabeth Cotten, Reverend Gary Davis, Sleepy John Estes, Jesse Lone Cat Fuller, Son House, Skip James, Koerner Ray & Glover, Blind Willie McTell, Fred Neil, Muddy Waters ••• CLASSICAL: Enrique Granados, Giacomo Puccini ••• COUNTRY: Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, Clarence Ashley, The Browns, Johnny Cash, Freddy Fender, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Homer & Jethro, Harlan Howard, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins, the great Mel Tillis, Hank Williams ••• JAZZ: Luiz Bonfá, João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Percy Mayfield, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington ••• OLD-TIME: The Carter Family, Grayson & Whittier, Roscoe Holcomb, Charlie Poole, OlaBelle Reed, Jimmie Rodgers ••• POP/FOLK: Tony Bennett, The Clancy Brothers, Dion, Bob Dylan, Archie Fisher, Terry Gilkyson, Holland Dozier & Holland, Jorma Kaukonen/Hot Tuna, The Kinks, Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Petty, Richard Rogers, Jimmy Webb, Tony Joe White, Brian Wilson/Beachboys ••• SUOMI: Reino Helismaa, Toivo Kärki, Tapio Rautavaara
Sounds Like
Eric Peltoniemi (on a good day)
Record Label
Red House Records/Sleeper Records/Aalto Records/EiNo Records
Eric Peltoniemi is the President of world-renowned roots music label Red House Records. Since the early 1970s (in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and the Twin Cities) Eric has worked several sides of the music industry: as a performing artist, songwriter, graphic designer, Grammy-winning producer and record label executive.
Eric’s long relationship with folk and country music began some 45 years ago as a teenager performing at county fairs, dances, township halls...and even boxing matches. He would go on to spend several years performing across the US, Canada and northern Europe as a solo artist and with the folk-rock bands Trova and Suomi Orkesteri.
He has also worked extensively in the music theatre where he has written music, lyrics and occasional book for eleven plays, including the regional hits TEN NOVEMBER (a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Steven Dietz) and PLAIN HEARTS (a collaboration with Lance Belville). A more recent work is a collaboration with Peter Glazer entitled HEART OF SPAIN, a musical about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
Eric’s original songs have been recorded by artists like Bok, Trickett & Muir; Robin & Linda Williams; Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt; Lisa Asher; Trova; and the Finnish roots band Koinurit.
Eric continues to tour and perform his music, both as a solo artist and with the theatrical/musical revue GALES OF NOVEMBER (a concert version of TEN NOVEMBER). The traveling company also features the acclaimed artists Prudence Johnson, Claudia Schmidt, Ruth MacKenzie, Peter Ostroushko, Kevin Kling, Dan Chouinard and Jeffrey Willkomm.
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Hey Eric, Greetings from New England. Really enjoying the tunes here. Remembering you & I in a Vermont kitchen where you had just written "Hard Times". Could be an anthem for these times. Is it recorded and available? Best, Doug
I will have you know that last week, my co-workers learned a lot about a long-gone ship...and heard me singing a few bittersweet tunes in the halls. I still hear the bell that we used at the Duluth Playhouse between the sailors' names resonating in my head. Thank you for keeping the memories afloat.
All of your sailing And your salient sailors All of your jack-tar boys, and mariners so free All of their faces With their bucky cheeks so rosy Widows of the water -- where can they be?
Every November 10th, I think of you and Steven and your beautiful, beautiful play. Long live the Edmund Fitzgerald. :-)
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