The RPM Challenge - Rock n' roll and Americana musicians unite!

Rock n' roll and Americana musicians unite!

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

The beauty of the RPM challenge is that there are so many diverse musicians playing so many different, stimulating different kinds of music. Everything is represented, from folk, pop, and rock to techno, rap, and other sample based music.

Personally, I love and respect it all. The more a listener allows themselves to enjoy the more varied their personality becomes and the bigger musical arsenal they build. However, I am natuarlly inclined to more organic sounds, from old folk, country, and blues to rock n' roll like Chuck Berry, the Beatles, and Pink Floyd (especially their early years). Dylan is perennial. New rock is good too, especially bands like Wilco.

I'm really interested in hearing other people who have a similar musical outlook/sound. Gimme a hollar so I can discover some great new music.

Lastly, my album - Bluegrass - contains what I believe to be some of my definitive statements lyrically, some of my best songwriting, and is all around more varied than anything I've ever done. Lemme know if ya dig it.

Peace,

Erik

Comments (9)

1 Musical Personality Disorder
Written by Babys First Ride, on 04-22-2008 19:13
MPD runs rampant among RPMers. We can't seem to play just one kind of music. I have Rap, Electronic, Hard Edge Techno, Guitar Rock on the Same CD. Baby's First Ride suffers from MPD. I'll check out your sound later tonight.

2 Sounds like...
Written by Osborne and Hutchison, on 04-22-2008 22:20
you would like my bandmates solo effort 'Sometimes' very Dylan with shades of Neil Young thrown in. Our effort 'Geezer' folk/country/60s who knows what else.

Oz

3 Written by Gumbo Stu, on 04-23-2008 04:16
Hi Erik

I liked your Firelight track - that rocks out - \"the end of everything\" and Bad Blue Eyes are cool too. Got them in a playlist now.

Cheers
Stu

4 Written by Kavin.s Acoustic Church, on 04-23-2008 06:25
Nice, driving acoustic songs, reminiscent of "old" folk, Woody Guthrie style. Excuse me, but isn't Wreck of the Old '97 a Johnny Cash tune?

5 Written by Gumbo Stu, on 04-23-2008 14:55
it was written in '03 (1903) by ... well ... check this out, Kavin./everyone:

http://oldbluebus.blogspot.com/2007/01/wreck-of-ol-97.html
and
http://www.tarheelpress.com/Ol97.html

6 nice
Written by Erik Ritland, on 04-23-2008 23:28
that's so cool to get the history behind that song! i have vernon dalhardt's original 1920s version, woody guthrie's, and cash's. i love them all, the song is a classic.

the first version mentioned was the first million selling country song. i figured that doing a version of the first genuine country song would be a good way to introduce my rootsy aesthetic. it's only one of the many interesting little features of the album.

7 Check out this guy
Written by Colin Garvey, on 04-24-2008 12:49
Dom Veron

8 Very Nice
Written by Jacuzzi Berkley and the Grufun, on 04-25-2008 18:35
I particularly like your "Bluegrass". Non-rhyming songs can be hit or miss but I think you nailed that one. I love it!

Given your style of music, you might enjoy some of our stuff: Jacuzzi Berkley in the jukebox or on Virb at http://www.virb.com/jacuzziberkley

9 Written by Jacuzzi Berkley and the Grufun, on 04-25-2008 18:35
I meant "Bluegrass" song. I r bad typer.

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