Blue Mountain Artists Press Kit

• If there is any justice in the music business, Eric Lindell will be the next big thing.
  - The Free Lance Star - 14-Feb-08

• Eric Lindell and Company appears on Late Night with Conan O'Brien!
  8-Feb-08

• Low on Cash, Rich in Love - The Reviews
  Chiago Sun Times - "Low on Cash, Rich in Love," is a mature album by a singer-songwriter with a fully realized musical vision.
  The Times Picayune - Eric Lindell's new CD and Van vibes attract radio attention and more fans
  All Music - Hal Horowitz - This is sunshiny singalong party music that's deceptively difficult to create. Lindell makes it seem not just easy, but natural.
  USAToday - This young New Orleans bluesman lays down some wickedly sharp guitar and harmonica licks on his second album, playing blue-eyed soul and R&B rave-ups that are firmly in the pocket.
  Offbeat - Low on Cash, Rich in Love is a wire-to-wire winner.
  Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Eric Lindell's smooth new groove... a fine young talent who has nowhere to go but up into the musical stratosphere.
  NOLA.com - Eric Lindell shines on new "Low On Cash, Rich in Love"
  Song Lines Music - Very cool podcast review - The sophomore effort from Eric Lindell, Low on Cash, Rich on Love finds the bluesy roots rocker with the easy, soulful voice in top form.
  Smoky Mountain News - Lindell confidently seasons this set of songs with gritty funk, R&B and undeniably New Orleans flavors. Add to this some inspired songwriting, singing and playing and you’ve got the makings of a mighty fine album.
  Tiger Weekly - one word can describe his latest release, Low on Cash, Rich in Love: pure.
  Americana Roots - Eric Lindell follows up his highly praised 2006 debut CD titled Change In The Weather, with another masterpiece titled “Low On Cash, Rich In Love.”
  Mog - Low on Cash, Rich in Love , a collection filled with solid grooves, insightful lyrics and one emotionally rich song after another.
  National Ledger - Low On Cash, Rich In Love has something special that makes it enjoyable by music lovers from all walks of life.

• Alligator Records has set a January 15, 2008 street date for Low On Cash, Rich In Love from California-born, New Orleans-schooled singer/songwriter Eric Lindell.

• From Indie To Alligator - The TImes Picayune
  In the seven months since the CD's release, Lindell has witnessed the impact a motivated record company can have on a musician's career. After years of hardscrabble touring with little or no promotion, his songs are getting airplay on Triple-A and community radio stations and the Sirius and XM satellite networks. Airplay translates to paying customers at gigs.

• Change in the Weather - The Reviews
  Times-Picayune - With 'Change in the Weather', Eric Lindell as arrived!
  OffBeat - If you play this CD with your windows wide open, don’t be surprised if you neighbors ask who you’re listening to.
  All Music - Lindell is loose and seems like he's having a ball throughout. That enthusiasm bleeds into the album's upbeat approach...
  Amazon - 'Change in the Weather' will delight and surprise music fans hungry for an extraordinary, original artist who is just getting ready to explode...
  Jazz News - Eric Lindell's Change In The Weather, looks forward, with an album whose completely original, roosty, funky music and hook-filled, cliche-free songs will launch Lindell into the musical mainstream...
  Herald Today - Eric Lindell brings unpredicable 'Weather'...
  Edmonton Sun - Eric Lindell's debut CD is Outstanding!
  Washington Post - Eric Lindell IS a rock-'n'-soul man in the tradition of Van Morrison and Southside Johnny but with a twist: Lindell has spent the past seven years in New Orleans

• Songs in The Key of Life - Vail Daily - 06-Jul-06
  In New Orleans, where music is as prevalent as oxygen, Eric Lindell has given the city a fresh breath of air with his R&B-style songwriting and good ol' rock 'n' roll

• Skate Punk Funk - Lindell Grows Up in the Big Easy -New York Press - 05-Jul-06
  At first glance Eric Lindell seems an unlikely candidate for music stardom...

• Healing a Note at a Time - The Washington Times - 29-Jun-06
  Eric Lindell has encapsulated that relaxed, "everything-is-going-to-be-fine" feeling.

• Sitting Pretty - MetroActive - 06-Jun-06
  Eric Lindell's blue-eyed soul sparkles on new CD

• Lindell earned ‘degree’ in New Orleans - 2TheAdvocate - 05-May-06
  ...the lack of a blues scene in New Orleans wasn’t a bad thing. Lindell soaked up other local music styles, especially funk and R&B...

• Better Weather - Off Beat Magazine - Blues Worthy by Marc Stone - 12-Apr-06
  It wasn’t really that long ago that Eric Lindell was doing scattered gigs at the Old Point Bar near his house in Algiers and playing every Monday night at the Circle Bar...

• Eric Lindell's "CHANGE IN THE WEATHER" Most Added at AAA and Americana Radio!  - 04-Apr-06

• The Blues, Where He Belongs - Times Picayune (www.nola.com) - 04 Feb 2006
  Eric Lindell returns to the music of his youth.

• Blue Mountain Artists Signs Eric Lindell - Blues Matters Feb 2006
  Blue Mountain Artists is proud to announce the signing of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Eric Lindell.

• Alligator Records signs guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Eric Lindell! - 01 Jan 2006
  Alligator Records is proud to announce the signing of guitarist/ vocalist/ songwriter Eric Lindell. The California-born, New Orleans-schooled musician will release his Alligator debut, CHANGE IN THE WEATHER, in April 2006. A roots rocker with dozens of original songs that combine soul shaking rhythm & blues, reggae grooves, swamp pop and blues...
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• Eric Lindell Signs with Alligator Records - Jazz News - 24 Jan 2006
  The California-born, New Orleans-schooled musician will release his Alligator debut, CHANGE IN THE WEATHER, in April 2006. A roots rocker with dozens of original songs that combine soul shaking rhythm & blues, reggae grooves, swamp pop and blues...

• Lindell's  Record Deal - Offbeat - Jan 2006
  OffBeat cover boy Eric Lindell (December 2003) and multi-time performer at our Best Of The Beat Awards recently signed with Chicago-based Alligator Records, and has a new CD in the works that should be released this March.

• The show must go on - Vail Daily - Sep 2005
  Interview with Aaron on Katrinas aftermath
  "I feel saddest about, not necessarily the places that have been ruined, but the way of life," ...

• Eric (and other guitarists) talk about their love of the Fender Stratocaster - Offbeat
  I used to always buy these crappy guitars and crappy amps ’cause I liked old shit.

• Eric Lindell New Orlean Scene Bio - WWOZ
  Eric Lindell: "Upon his arrival in New Orleans Eric picked right up where he left off, gigging as much as he could around town. One day in a local Algiers coffee shop he struck up a conversation with a young bespectacled local he saw frequently in his small neighborhood. To his delight the stranger said he played the drums and the two made plans to get together and jam as soon as they could. Unbeknownst to Lindell, this blonde-haired stranger was renowned Galactic drummer Stanton Moore. Falling for Eric’s laid-back grooves and razor-sharp hooks, Moore became a frequent partner in crime, playing gigs with him in smoky and intimate hipster haunts like the Old Pointe and Circle Bar. Lindell went on to solidify a fairly permanent lineup for this latest version of his funky, groove-centered soul music, with Marty Joyce providing the backbeat and joining in on harmonies, and Casandra Faulconer on the bass."

• Tragic Magic Review - Where Yat
  Tragic Magic, is pure R&B. The strength is rhythm, mixing gritty blues guitar licks (think Buddy Guy or Albert King) with an expressive organ and drums and bass that beg of Curtis Mayfield...

• Live and the Circle Bar - Live New Orleans
  Eric Lindell was from California, but he threw a New Orleans party at The Circle Bar Monday night. The R&B/Blues man had people throwing dollars at the feet of his rockin’ band, and I heard hoopin’ and hollerin’ in the middle of songs. He had my legs rocking so hard to the music that I spilled beer all over myself...

• "Eric Lindell" CD review -  Offbeat - Best Of 2002
  Sixties R&B, brass band, reggae, juke house blues all on one record…sound interesting? In today's musical climate where genre bending and blending has just about reached cliché status, New Orleans blue-eyed soul upstart Eric Lindell makes it work and makes it work well...

• An "Old Soul" from California Reinvents New Orleans R & B - By Christopher Blagg

There's a new burrito joint in town. It's across the river in Algiers Point, but don't let the Mississippi stop you. Not only will you get a mammoth Mission-styled burrito, but odds are it'll be grilled and folded by a tattooed Californian hipster hell-bent on bringing classic R&B back to New Orleans. In many ways, Eric Lindell is an anomaly; a West Coast-bred former skate rat having a way with both a spatula and a Stratocaster. More than anything, Lindell is what people call an "old soul." Without a trace of cornball reverence for the old days, or misguided attempts at retro-chic, he displays a genuine old school aura that is both natural and refreshing. There is nothing forced or calculated in Lindell's style or sound. He does his own thing, in his own way and at his own pace, and seems genuinely bemused at the sudden attention he's receiving.

Crossing the river on the ferry to Algiers Point, I made my way to Elcy's, Lindell's cramped but charming burrito café (as it has only one chair, "restaurant" would be the wrong word). Sure enough, in front of the smoking grill was Eric, cutting up with the locals and sweet-talking them into a spicy chicken burrito rather than the standard New Orleans lunch of a dripping roast beef po-boy. It seems before being Elcy's, the building was a po-boy shop, and some of the more stubborn locals are having trouble with the transition. Along with the others, I'm easily won over and five minutes later I'm sitting across from Eric outside of Elcy's with a gigantic tortilla wrap in front of me. As I take on my dauntingly large lunch, he begins to recount his journey from California surfer to West Bank guitar/burrito slinger.

• Show Review and Interview - The Crutch
  Lindell is a treat live. Lindell plays guitar well, but his strength lies in his voice. Raspy yet clear, he can belt soulful lines like the best blues men and still have enough change for a guitar solo...

• Eric Lindell - Bio and Video   - Tipitinas
  Soul-music faithful throughout New Orleans have praised Lindell for helping to bring back the emphasis on R&B songwriting that has been absent from the city for over two decades...

• Dragon Smoke - Boomboomtickets.com

• Artist Perspective Best of 2003 - Galactic - glidemagazine.com

• Jazz Fest Press Photos - musicpictures.com

• For the Asian Crowd - www.applejam-mojoroux.com

• Digging It  - Metro Active
  Rocker Eric Lindel brings and old sound to a new audience
  THE WORD is spreading. Every Monday night, in the upstairs game room at Santa Rosa's Third Street Aleworks, a hardworking rocker named Eric Lindell kicks back and takes a little quality time--just for himself--to re-juice his musical battery...

• Last Exit - Metro Active
  Do local musicians really have to leave the county to hit the big time?   Native sons: Eric Lindell, right, and the Reds have been major players on the local music scene. But after this month, they'll join the crowd of other bands that have left the county, bound for the big music centers...