ERIC WORLEY
“Eric Worley is a singer songwriter (THE GREAT AMERICAN ANTHEM STORY) an Oregonian born and raised in THE KLAMATH BASIN that winds outskirts to KENO along the KLAMATH RIVER CANYON. He escaped out to to the Portland area right out of the nineteen eighties to have multiple albums written with his bands that put him through record label status career later becoming iconic as an iconic regional singer songwriter and producer. In the 90's Seattle grunge hey day , he engineered and produced many records in a state of the art tape analog studio that opened its doors and stayed the same since 1963. He was running studio sessions while multitasking taking calls from Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix estate (looking for recorded archives) Burton Cummings, Fleetwoods, also to have worked with masterful recording engineers from Paisley Park Prince's recording studio in Seattle using the analog Studio (Kearney Barton's Audio Recording) Later Eric with his own songwriting works in his bands have hit 1.5 million streams when YouTube came out in 2005 and 2006. Now he has a story to tell through his songs growing up in the Klamath basin. With venue and tour festivals Eric performed with Dave Perner, Soul Asylum, Tommy Tu-tone (8675309) along with a movie performance in 1993 of Brainsmasher, A Love Story with Terry Hatcher and Andrew Dice Clay. His original band (Water) entertained AAA Radio and the collage radio charts (CMJ) "Put Up a Fight" "Wiggle it" and landed attention from Warner/Chappell and Sony/EPIC/Columbia. He's released in 2024 a new solo Album called ERIC WORLEY HEROES IN DEMOLAND VOL 1. THE CANCER SESSIONS. Getting hit with cancer (multiple myloma) in 2011 he's still playing and kicking out new material and hasn't stopped. These songs were written about growing up in the KLAMATH BASIN. The songs have a story and actual landmarks of the area and about the people, (STATE LINE ROAD, GRAVITY HILL , HIGHWAY 39 to DEAD INDIAN before the name change., to cruising main street and going home when the red lights flash at midnight. THIS is what he remembers what really a small town personally means to him. Girls, cars, friends, high school and the people of the area are all in these songs about the struggle and a good life of an American small town. Songs like "HWY 39" SMALL TOWN, AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROCK N ROLL GIRL to REDEMPTION and AMERICAN WAR MACHINE. These songs ARE the small town story untold until now. His story continues with a coming home tour to his heroes... the people. The new album (ERIC WORLEY HEROES IN DEMOLAND VOL.1.THE CANCER SESSIONS) out now on all social media platforms. Its also on Vinyl and CD through independent record stores (Music Millennium Portland Oregon) or his website www.ericworleymusic.com ” - DS
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