Tim Eriksen

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Tim Eriksen

Tim Eriksen (* 1966 ) is an American musician , musicologist and professor . He is the head of the band Cordelia's Dad , solo artist, consultant and musician on the award-winning soundtrack for the film On the Road to Cold Mountain .

Cordelia's dad

Cordelia's dad combines old-time music and punk rock influences to create a unique sound. The Village Voice describes the band as "semi-reformed punks turned shape-note singers ... recently gone entirely acoustic, but buzzing with metaphorical electricity." The band has already released nine albums, performed well-known festival appearances such as The Newport Folk Festival and toured with well-known bands such as Nirvana , Uncle Tupelo and Weezer .

Musicologist

Eriksen is a PhD in Philosophy, PhD student in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and has lectured as a Music Professor at Dartmouth College , Amherst College , Hampshire College and the University of Minnesota . He also taught in Poland and the Czech Republic . Tim Eriksen is a collector of many variations of folk songs and an explorer of traditional music of Yugoslavia . Eriksen also contributed his extensive knowledge of folk music as an advisor on the soundtrack of the film Cold Mountain .

Solo artist

On the Cold Mountain soundtrack, Eriksen sang traditional songs like "I Wish My Baby Was Born" and "The Cuckoo" with Riley Baugus . He was part of The Great High Mountain Tour , which featured traditional music from Cold Mountain and O Brother, Where Art Thou? presented.

Eriksen also released two solo albums, Tim Eriksen and Every Sound Below . Every Sound Below's Pop Matters Review describes it as a "stunning mixture of traditional hymns, songs from the American Civil War , and Eriksen's own compositions".

The soundtrack Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp , which accompanies the Sacred Harp documentary Awake, My Soul , includes a song by Eriksen and one by Cordelia's dad. Paste Magazine describes Eriksen's performance of the Sacred Harp songs at a concert in Atlanta as "stand-out" and said Eriksen "was best at adapting the raw power of Sacred Harp to his own arrangements.

Eriksen was also a guest on the radio show A Prarie Home Companion , where he performed the traditional folk song "O, Death".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Josh Jackson: Sacred Harp in a Strange Setting . Paste Magazine. September 26, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b c TIM ERIKSEN . University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. Archived from the original on September 10, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 30, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music.umich.edu
  3. ^ William Hogeland: MUSIC: PLAYLIST; The Answer, My Friend, Is ... Mono? . New York Times. November 21, 2004. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b Keith O'Connor: Wednesday Folk Traditions begins at Porter Phelps . The Republican. June 13, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  5. ↑ Stewart Mason: Tim Eriksen on allmusic . Allmusic. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  6. ↑ a b Michael Metivier: Tim Eriksen: Every Sound Below . PopMatters. September 10, 2004. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  7. ^ Daniel Durchholz: The Great High Mountain Tour / May 12, 2004 / St. Louis (Fox Theater) . Billboard.com. May 14, 2004. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  8. ↑ http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/10/29/
personal data
SURNAME Eriksen, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966