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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Acoustic / Pop / Rock

    Location NEW YORK, New York, US

    Profile Views: 40281

    Last Login: 10/26/2011

    Member Since 5/30/2007

    Website www.ericunderwood.com

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    From New England to New York to New Orleans, Eric Underwood has been writing and performing his music for over a decade. Eric was born and raised in Adams, a small town in Western Massachusetts. He began playing the violin at the age of 10 and by the time he was 14 he was playing with the local college orchestra. After high school, he decided to put the violin and the rule book down, pick up a guitar and begin creating works of his own. Freedom was in his hands! Ever changing and never standing still, Eric's original style is like David Bowie meets Coldplay while on a magical mystery tour, an inherent vintage vibe blended with some very modern pop rock edges. Eric's biggest musical influences were always from the UK (ie. The Beatles, Radiohead, U2, Duran Duran) and this may be what sets him apart from some of his American peers. In the last ten years, the presentation has changed from acoustic singer/songwriter to folk/rock band to acoustic/cello duo to the most recent "full on" pop rock band. No matter what happens with his career as a musician, Eric is on a soulful journey, one that has taken him from the beautiful countryside of New England to the concrete jungle of New York and recently the very colorful city of New Orleans. Now with three CD's under his belt and back in New York City, Eric is recording his latest album. Stay tuned. The best is yet to come.

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  • Influences

    The Beatles, U2, Radiohead, Duran Duran, David Bowie, T.Rex, Mattew Sweet, Jeffrey Gaines, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, ELO, REM, INXS, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, Jellyfish, Michael Penn, Dave Matthews, Prince, George Michael, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, 8o's Music Videos, Julius Hegyi, Star Wars/George Lucas, Jim Henson, J.R.R. Tolkein, Sid & Marty Kroft, Batman

  • Sounds Like

    The Beatles, Coldplay, Matthew Sweet, Radiohead, Elliot Smith, old Bowie, Dave Matthews, ELO, Cat Stevens, the Moody Blues, Nick Drake.. It's like George Harrison, Tears for Fears, and Barry Gibb having a love child!..

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Reviews of The Eric Underwood Band, THE LIGHT BEHIND YOU:

Acoustic songwriter pop as good as this only comes along once every couple of years, and when it does, I'm awfully glad for the opportunity to review it within these hallowed pages. The Eric Underwood Band put a fresher face on what I feel is a musical format that has been hopelessly bled to death. Listening to this disc brings the feelings of freshness and the newness I felt the first time I heard Nick Drakes's Five Leaves Left, 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, or REM's Fables. Eric Buddington's tasteful violin alone could set the band's sound apart from all the other drivel out there, but this band goes further with songs that actually mean something, with lots of emotion and lots of integrity, sporing a wide array of folk and rock influences spanning decades. Fans of Jeffrey Gaines, Michael Penn, and pre-crap era Dave Matthews would enjoy this disc with a candlelight dinner and a bottle of chardonnay. Bon Appetit!-JOEL SIMCHES (THE NOISE-ROCK AROUND BOSTON),

The Eric Underwood Band is a Massachusetts based group that's led, not surprisingly, by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Eric Underwood. The band's CD, The Light Behind You, is an evocative, acoustic collection of originals. Rich harmonies, crisp melodies and lush acoustic guitars are prevalent throughout, but the band doesn't have your normal "acoustic" sound. It weaves rich, percussive textures and grooves with soaring violin fills. Ther's some excellent material here, especially the jazzy meanderings of "Patagonia Blue," the sweeping "Exodus" and a rendition of the traditional "America the Beautiful." Fans of the Dave Mattews Band and From Good Homes, among others, should find this of interest.-RELIX


Reviews of Eric Underwood and Eladia, DOWN FROM the TREEHOUSE:

Brooding, dark, and utterly gorgeous, Down From the Treehouse is a moving study in thick sonic textures and emotion. With Eric Underwood on guitar and vocals and...Eladia playing some of the moodiest, most versatile cello you'll hear, this record fluidly moves from churning rock to baroque Simon & Garfunkel-esque folk.
Eladia's cello serves as an apt foil for Eric's vocals, which range from the snarling bite of Trent Reznor to the reflective glint of Elliott Smith. On tunes like "Marianne," the cello flutters and swims around Eric's guitar and vocal, alternately serving as a melodic lift and a grounding bass, gypsy viola and its own string section. The standout track "Carousel" perfectly represents this record-smart, dark and lovely.-PERFORMING SONGWRITER


ERIC UNDERWOOD DITCHES THE BAND, COMES DOWN FROM THE TREEHOUSE
by Seth Rogovoy

Eric Underwood worked his way up on the regional music scene headlining a band that bore his own name and, with a violin in the group and lots of minor-key folk-rock anthems in the repertoire, one seemingly patterned along the lines of the Dave Matthews Band.

But with Underwood's brand new CD, Down from the Treehouse, the follow-up to the Eric Underwood Band's The Light Behind You, the singer-songwriter has done a 180-degree turn.

While the minor-key melodies are still prevalent, the band is gone and in its place are just Underwood's voice and acoustic guitar accompanied by the versatile, haunting cello stylings of Underwood's new duet partner, Eladia who also lends occasional vocal harmonies.

Down From the Treehouse is a dark, intimate album, colored heavily by Eladia's gorgeous cello, which lends a timeless, mournful quality to the already timeless, mournful ballads composed by Underwood, an Adams (Massachusetts) native who was himself something of a childhood prodigy on violin, performing with the Berkshire Symphony at age 12.

Something of the texture of violin and classical music informs Underwood's songs on Down From the Treehouse, which with few exceptions-most notably "Jericho," which works up a sensual froth-are contructed of delicate latticework of Underwood's whispery vocals, his rhythmic guitar strumming, and Eladia's moody counterpoint.

Here and there one hears traces of the Beatles-another folk group that once put cello to good use-and other late-1960's/early-'70s English folk groups, as well as hints of some of the more angst-laden grunge-rock of the early-'90s, albeit unplugged-style. But for the most part, on Down From the Treehouse, Eric Underwood and Eladia have invented an original sonic blend.
-THE ROGOVOY REPORT


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ERIC UNDERWOOD & ELADIA: Down From the Treehouse

Ambient, dreamy, new age, folk pop with "some of the moodiest, most versatile cello you'll hear." "Brooding, dark, and utterly gorgeous."-Performing Songwriter

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THE ERIC UNDERWOOD BAND: The Light Behind You

DREAMY, HARD DRIVING ACOUSTIC ROCK includes songs from "PURLPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTY"

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