Listen to songs from Eric Wolfson’s debut album, “State Street Rambler”!
North Country Girl Blues
Cross the River
Graveyard Girls
Ann Rutledge Blues
Sleeping Is a Sucker’s Game
Links to buy “State Street Rambler”:
See what (anti)folks are saying about “State Street Rambler”:
“‘State Street Rambler’ is a glorious mash-up of swaggering rock’n'roll that sounds just like you immersed your head in a bucket of 1969, simple, evocative balladry, and loony truth-to-power talking blues…It’s an unbridled wild horse of a record, with a fat streak of goofy humor and not a little social outrage.”
- Urban Folk Magazine (to check out the whole issue online, featuring yers truly on the cover, click here)
“‘State Street Rambler’ is a swaggering, poignant procession down an imagined highway 61 running through the heart of New York. On it Wolfson captures the beautiful chaos of the city - its passions, histories, fairytales, corner bars, clear skies and dirty underground with a startling precision.”
- Pop Headwound (to read the entire amazing article, click here)
And, of course, the obligatory link to my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/ericwolfson
It is one of the true honors of my musical career to have my good friend, fellow songwriter, and existential spiritualist/poet/philosopher J.J. Hayes compose an essay inspired by one of my songs, Upon the Significance of Eric Wolfson’s Ann Rutledge Blues: A Response to Barry Schwartz, which he submitted and has been published online at the Lincoln Group website.
Check it out:
http://www.lincolngroup.org/literary-article-hayes.html
And if yer unfamiliar with my song that inspired this epic contemplation of the mystic chords of memory, it’s the first song up on my Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/ericwolfson
“Ann Rutledge Blues” is a song about a muse and the type of impact a muse can have, even when they are entirely unaware of their influence. This idea has always been at the core of the Lincoln/Rutledge myth - that Rutledge’s premature death was necessary to
fueled Lincoln’s rise to greatness - and to think that my song about a muse can in turn become a muse for another thought-provoking creative study is the greatest compliment my work could receive.
Thanks so much to J.J. and hope you all enjoy.
Eric.
PS: Fer those of you who want the historical truth - as best we can figure it out - check out Joshua Wolf Shenk’s 2005 book Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness; for those of you who want the romantic dream, check out John Ford’s 1939 film Young Mr. Lincoln, featuring a young Henry Fonda in the title role. (And fer those of you who don’t have the time - or the Netflix - to actually watch the whole thing, here’s a YouTube clip of the pertinent Abe & Ann material, at least until someone takes it down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcuUvtenx6w&feature=PlayList&p=677F2711E3202F96&index=1.)