"Redneck Parking Lot" is a fun and affectionate ode to the peculiar charm of rural life and the nostalgia that lingers around these unique car collections in the front yards of country homes. 

It combines humor with a touch of sentimentality, making it a perfect addition to any country playlist. "Redneck Parking Lot" is a poignet country song that paints a vivid picture of the classic rural American scene – houses with a cluttered front yard filled with a variety of old, broken-down cars. The song captures the essence of small-town living and the quirky charm of these front-yard auto graveyards.

Red Neck Parking Lot

RedNeck Parking Lot

The first cut off the new cd "BROOKLYN BOLERO"... 

Red Dress

Odd images wrap themselves around you as you wander urban landscapes; local voyages, drifters and incomprehensible situational constucts put reality and visual manifestations in betwixt this plane and the next...

Hold Your Hand / Brooklyn Bolero

We're going to Mars... we'll need some red desert tunes and some interstellar grooves! Wrote this when I came to the end of a set list in Knoxville, Tennessee and wrote it and played it on the spot. Recorded in Pittsburgh, finished in Pittsboro, NC and mastered by the truly remarkable Jessica Thompson at Neato Mastering in San Francisco...

Holiday on Mars

Here's a new twist on the country classic blues, one with a bit of bite and a visual everyone gets: parked junk cars on the front lawn! A rockin' slide guitar, simple and accessible lyrics plus a catchy, ear-worm melody make this song a must on any go-to party playlist! 

Featuring Scotty Marvelous on Bass, Billy Joe Kidd on percussion, vocals and Eric Sommer on guitars, slide guitar, vocals • producer/engineering by Mike Nicholson at Hondo Creek Recording

Redneck Parking Lot

"One great riff leads to an entire composition of tight grooves, guitar lines looking for a dishwasher and smart lyrical vocal trips that make this song a unique, stand-out composition in a catalog of compositions by this Artist where new musical ideas, surprising chorus treatments, and smart instrumentation combine to deliver one more great song!"  • Steve Bain-Geoff | PINCH reviews

Featuring Scotty Marvelous on Bass, Billy Joe Kidd on percussion, vocals and Eric Sommer on guitars, slide guitar, vocals

Tin Roof

You wreck your car, you go get a used one... drive it off the lot and get it home. Get up for the jib and the damn thing won't start. Been there?

That Car Won't Drive

From band Blue Chilli, one of the tracks you might hear at Friday Nights Live on 9 August

Aspettami Blue Chilli

Boom Boom Kitty

RED QUEEN

This is a song about double, copy cat suicides in Las Vegas; for so many, it's the only way out, for whatever reason. Is it easy? You'd think so, but it takes a tremendous will to end everything.

Distanced collectivness, the cult of being dispassionately aloof forever, the belief that not standing for something means you stand for everything or nothing. And cruising the fringes of the human condition does not make you immune from it.

We wrote it in the studio - I had a lick and Dave the K liked it a lot so we recorded the song, polished the track and then I went back and laid down the vocals... it's a cool song and we like it...

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Red Queen

Sound Advice: Eric Sommer – Cincinnatti City Beat, December 8, 2016

Singer/songwriter Eric Sommer is an unbelievable intersection of improbable influences and experiences channeled into an amazingly diverse catalog and a résumé that reads more like a musical adventure novel than a series of career bullet points.

Sommer emerged from the Boston music scene in the ’80s with a vengeance, a Folk guitarist with a percussive, open-tuning style adapted from the likes of David Bromberg, Steve Howe, Townes Van Zandt and Brit Folk legend Davy Graham. But Boston was also a hotbed of New Wave, Power Pop and Punk at that point, and Sommer absorbed those influences as well, creating a Byrdsian jangle sound that earned him opening slots for national touring acts and regular bookings at the renowned Paradise Theatre.

Sommer eventually relocated to Europe where he scored tours with Bram Tchaikovsky, Wreckless Eric and Nick Lowe, calling Denmark and the Netherlands home for awhile. After honing his personal songwriting style and playing every conceivable club on the European circuit, Sommer returned to Boston homeless and broke.

Living on the streets and in abandoned squats, Sommer played every available open mic and picked up guitar tips from David Landau and Gary Burton/Steve Howe sideman Mick Goodrick, which led to the formation of a trio called The Atomics, which offered up an American version of Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson and Nick Lowe during its run. While The Atomics opened for the Dead Kennedys and Gang of Four and became one of Boston’s best local New Wave outfits, Sommer was finding constant inspiration in the works of Jeff Beck, Pat Martino, Joe Pass and Charlie Christian.

With The Atomics’ dissolution, Sommer’s wanderlust took him to New York, Atlanta and finally the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where he founded the Georgetown Film Festival and embarked on a phase of independent film scoring. Since then, Sommer has been a troubadour with no fixed address, playing well over 250 gigs a year and slowing down just long enough to record a handful of brilliant albums, including Rainy Day Karma with his band, Solar Flares, and his latest solo effort, Brooklyn Bolero.

If there’s any lingering doubt about Sommer’s supernatural versatility, consider that he’s opened for Old 97’s, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, Bluegrass icon Jerry Douglas, Mates of State, Dr. John, Leon Redbone and Built to Spill. Whether in band or one-man form (which nakedly showcases his amazing acoustic Blues guitar stylings), Sommer is a living history of contemporary music and a musical force of nature.

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