Album Notes

"Eric McFadden growls with a dusty cadence as his fingers dance across the guitar strings with an ease that betrays a pact with the devil." -SF Weekly "McFadden is a master of guitar and mandolin, a 25 year veteran who waltzes the dark, eerie corridors between Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt. As a true testament to his deft touch and intuition, he's also one of the few performers who can play either acoustic or electric and still severely excercise your eardrums." ( Jonathan Zwickel -San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 2004) The Scoop : A genre-straddling, jaw-dropping guitarist who moonlights as a touring member of Parliament/Funkadelic , Eric McFadden seems afraid of no musical challenge....There are a lot of comparisons that crop up, and most of them have been made before; most importantly, the grizzled pipes of Tom Waits and the nimbly inventive touch of Django Reinhardt. McFadden seems attracted to the darker corners of human life, but he isn¹t without a sense of humor...Guitar virtuosos are hard enough to find; it¹s even harder to find one who has such a commanding voice and presence. (Adam McKibbin, Suite101.com, June 2003) Eric McFadden (Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals) is widely recognized by both fans and critics as a tremendously talented guitarist with an outstanding stage presence and uncanny live performance. With his mastery of several musical genres and his unique ability to effectively fuse different styles together, Eric is a guitar virtuoso. He is far from your typical musician and this is no secret. In 1998 he won "Best Guitarist" in the New Mexico Weekly Readers Poll, and in 2000, Bay Area's Zero Magazine awarded him the "Best Guitarist" as well. Born in New York and raised in New Mexico, McFadden moved to San Francisco with his band "Liar" in 1994. The band had a tremendous impact on the San Francisco music scene, and won the SF Weekly's Wammies Award for "Best Rock Band" in 1997, and BAM Magazine's California Music Award for "Best Americana /Roots Band" in 1998. Eric's eclectic musical abilities also allow him to play in several different style bands throughout the city night after night. His time is split between the flamenco-fueled carnival noir sounds of "The Eric McFadden Experience," the hard-edged blues / roots sound of, "The Faraway Brothers," and "Alien Lovestock," a funk laced, Latin tinged, desert rock band. Eric has also toured the entire U.S. and part of Europe showcasing his talents as a singer/songwriter. His solo acoustic show allows fans to simply appreciate his incredible songwriting and musicianship. In 2000, McFadden was honored when he was asked by outer-galactic funk-master George Clinton to join the Parliament/Funkadelic Mothership and spent three and a half years touring the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan with the band as the mandolin/guitar player. In early 2000 McFadden teamed up with fellow P-Funkster Ronkat Spearman and Kevin Carnes to form the powerhouse funk / rock trio known as "IZM." Eric joined The Stockholm Syndrome, a band founded by Dave Schools and Jerry Joseph, in 2004 and toured Europe and the US. McFadden then spent a year and a half touring the world with Eric Burdon & The Animals. McFadden has also collaborated with several other top-notch musicians both on stage and in the studio throughout the U.S. and Europe. Some of these artists include Joe Strummer (The Clash), The Reverend Horton Heat, Les Claypool (Primus), Gov't Mule, Dave Schools (Widespread Panic), Otteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers), Jackson Browne, Jonny Lang, John Parish (PJ Harvey), and Keb Mo. His most recent band "The Eric McFadden Trio" features James Whiton on upright bass, and Paulo Baldi on drums. The band has just released it's third album "Delicate thing", on Deathbunny records.