Eric Sawyer

He played an out of tune guitar for 2 years. Eventually, he learned to play guitar in a time when Bowie, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and America were all Number One. The Beatles moved his soul, John Lennon touched his heart, but Rodriquez inspired his spirit to soar. Out of these very cool times, came a songster who mixed Neil Young with Bob Dylan. Though he never really knew who he was, he tried to be somebody. Then he heard the music of Lonnie Mac, and Roy Buchanan and Albert Collins on a video called Crossroads....or something like that. He was so inspired by the blues for though he could not bend the notes like Clapton, or fret like Jimi, he could sing, and so he did, and over and over. Now he has 5 CD's and is waiting for the fifth one, which he calls Harvest Train. It is called Harvest, because that is the name of Neil Young's greatest album, and it is called Train for Bob Dylan who sings 'Saving Grace' at most every concert these days. If you close your eyes when he plays you will expect to open them and see an old tired bluesman, plying his trade, and instead you see a long haired, bearded bluesman with an Epiphone jumbo, plying his trade. Like the wind that whistle through his teeth, like the smile that floods his face, so many things and much more make up this original man. He does not pull his punches, he is the sum of his years and you will feel calm in his grip, you will feel at peace in his sound.