Tim Eriksen

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Am I Born To Die? 02:32 Tools
I Wish My Baby Was Born 00:00 Tools
The Maid Freed From The Gallows 04:06 Tools
Am I Born To Die 00:00 Tools
The Cuckoo 00:00 Tools
I Wish The Wars Were All Over 02:04 Tools
The Southern Girl's Reply 04:24 Tools
Every Sound Below 04:11 Tools
Leave Your Light On 03:39 Tools
Careless Love 02:34 Tools
Omie Wise 04:50 Tools
O Death 03:15 Tools
The Soldier's Return 03:04 Tools
Friendship 02:50 Tools
The Gallows Tree 02:56 Tools
Boston 04:30 Tools
Farewell to Old Bedford 02:45 Tools
The Golden Harp 04:39 Tools
John Colby's Hymn 04:11 Tools
The Stars Their Match 00:42 Tools
Lass of Glenshee 03:37 Tools
As I Travel 04:36 Tools
Bassett Creek 03:56 Tools
The Cumberland And The Merrimac 04:52 Tools
Garden Hymn 03:22 Tools
Queen Jane 05:07 Tools
Every Day Is Three 04:03 Tools
Hope 01:47 Tools
Son of God 03:43 Tools
Amazing Grace 04:22 Tools
Last Chance 03:40 Tools
Still Growing 03:12 Tools
A Tiny Crown 02:30 Tools
Red Rosy Bush 02:34 Tools
Poor Honest Men 03:21 Tools
Two Sisters 04:17 Tools
Better Days Coming 03:36 Tools
Bonny Bay of Biscay 03:36 Tools
Mobile Serenade Polka/Shep Jones Hornpipe 04:34 Tools
John Randolph 04:00 Tools
Wrestling Jacob 03:12 Tools
Hicks' Farewell 03:45 Tools
Castle By the Sea 03:46 Tools
Occom's Carol (O Sight Of Anguish) 01:43 Tools
Drowsy Sleeper 03:14 Tools
Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah 05:31 Tools
Two Babes 03:40 Tools
Dress It In Blue 02:06 Tools
A Soldier Traveling from the North 02:32 Tools
Edward 04:25 Tools
Brown Girl 06:58 Tools
Sandy Boys 02:58 Tools
Wayfaring Stranger 03:55 Tools
I Love Music 02:26 Tools
Jewett (instrumental) 01:05 Tools
Vernon /Wrestling Jacob, 95 02:27 Tools
Oh Death 02:56 Tools
Jewett 02:00 Tools
Soldier Traveling from the North 02:56 Tools
Southern Girl's Reply 04:20 Tools
Return Again 02:27 Tools
Solitude in the Grove 00:46 Tools
Village Churchyard 08:03 Tools
Yarrow 02:59 Tools
Springfield Mountain 02:30 Tools
The Way to Canaan 02:47 Tools
Occom's Carol - O Sight Of Anguish 01:42 Tools
Tom Dooley 02:22 Tools
Texas 04:09 Tools
Yew Pine Mountain 02:18 Tools
Yankee Doodle 03:35 Tools
The Company Store (feat. Riley Baugus) 02:10 Tools
Going Across the Sea 05:02 Tools
How Come That Blood 03:44 Tools
Am I Born to Die_ 00:00 Tools
Finn Tune 01:54 Tools
Gabriel's Trumpet 06:16 Tools
Mountains of Pomeroy 03:10 Tools
A Thousand Times Adieu 03:48 Tools
Am I Born To Die? (Album Version) 02:32 Tools
Roslin Castle 06:08 Tools
Philadelphia 03:35 Tools
When Shall We All Meet Again 02:48 Tools
Am I Born To Die? -Tim Eriksen 02:32 Tools
The Lover's Mistake 02:48 Tools
Hindoo Air 01:26 Tools
The Mice 03:42 Tools
Nalívej 03:42 Tools
Queen Jane (Child 52) 05:06 Tools
Na Lhotách 02:40 Tools
Join the Chorus 01:28 Tools
Carol of the Birds 02:08 Tools
O Come Emmanuel 03:58 Tools
Poor Honest Men - Tim Eriksen 03:21 Tools
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks 03:49 Tools
Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming 02:53 Tools
Occom's Carol 02:40 Tools
Song of the Old Folks (Old Lang Syne) 03:22 Tools
I wish the wars whew all over 02:40 Tools
Morning Star 01:29 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High 02:53 Tools
Cold Mountain Soundtrack - I Wish My Baby Was Born 02:53 Tools
Am I Born To Die(shabzendeha.blogfa.com) 02:32 Tools
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen 02:52 Tools
The First Noel 03:14 Tools
Tim Eriksen sings Occom's Carol 02:40 Tools
Silent Night 03:14 Tools
Star in the East 02:52 Tools
The Star of Bethlehem 03:30 Tools
Vernon / Wrestling Jacob (From "Help Me to Sing") 02:27 Tools
Vernon/ Wrestling Jacob (Help Me to Sing) 02:27 Tools
Dayspring 02:36 Tools
Am I Born To Die? - Tim Eriksen 02:36 Tools
Castle By The Sea (Child #4) 02:36 Tools
Song of the Old Folks (Auld Lang Syne) 02:36 Tools
Drowsy Sleepeer 02:36 Tools
Solitude 00:46 Tools
Sacred Harp #47 Bottom (Idumea) 02:44 Tools
Bottle 02:44 Tools
Buffalo 02:44 Tools
Wrestling Jacob/Vernon 95 02:27 Tools
May Song 02:17 Tools
John Colby’s Hymn 02:27 Tools
Mobile Serenade Polka / Shep Jones Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
Sacred Harp #299 (New Jerusalem) 02:38 Tools
Am I Born To Die Idumea 02:17 Tools
Sacred Harp #282 (I'm Going Home) 02:17 Tools
Prodigal Son 02:17 Tools
Logan's Lament 02:17 Tools
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Tim Eriksen (born in Northampton, Massachusetts) is an American musician, musicologist, and professor. An active musician since 1987, he is the leader of the band Cordelia's Dad as well as being a solo artist. He was a performer and consultant for the award-winning soundtrack of the film Cold Mountain. Based on his musical interests and abilities, singer-songwriter-ethnomusicologist Eriksen might have been born in a splintery wooden crib during the Revolutionary War, in a backwoods North Carolina church, in a hut along the Ganges, maybe even in the CBGBs bathroom. But no, the late-30s Eriksen was born in Massachusetts and grew up surrounded by the sound of his parents singing and by “natural sounds,” says Eriksen . “I always loved listening to bugs and wind and water and stuff.” While absorbing a love of America’s history and early music from his New England surroundings, the sounds of The Beatles, Kiss, and Motorhead were mingling with his family’s voices. When the Eriksens moved to Long Island, the punk-rock roar of the Ramones reached Tim’s ears. He was soon involved in hardcore/punk/garage bands like The Lobster Men, which gradually evolved into Cordelia’s Dad, an acoustic/electric “folk noise” band that recorded a number of albums (including Spine for Appleseed in 1998) and built a strong European following before lapsing into current but impermanent retirement. England’s Mojo magazine lauded the band for “examining the full, rich depth of the American folk tradition with startling conviction.” Even as Eriksen was thundering along as a bass-playing teenage rocker, he was also tuning in to Indian classical music (and subsequently studied the seven-string vina for ten years, during and after college), the challenging 20th Century composers Edgar Varese, George Crumb, Harry Partch and Krzystof Penderecki, and the blues of Mississippi Fred MacDowell. The source of these enthusiasms: parents, concerts, and “a lot of weird friends.” During Eriksen’s four years of vina-study at Amherst College in western Massachusetts, he and some of his “weird friends” started singing together, often in the traditional “shape note” style encoded in the 1844 “Sacred Harp” songbook. Shape note singing uses printed geometric shapes – triangles, circles, squares – to help untrained vocalists perform choral hymns. Eriksen kept amassing different musical influences. During the 1987-88 period when he spent months in India and England studying the vina and the connections between the two countries’ music, Tim also heard a cassette of the archival recordings of traditional American songs collected by Frank and Anne Warner on the eastern seaboard of the US between 1940 and 1966 – bedrock Americana like “Tom Dooley” and “Deep Elm Blues” that helped trigger the folk revival of the late 1950s. Tim was instrumental in the first commercial release of two volumes of these recordings in 2000 as Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still and Nothing Seems Better to Me on Appleseed Recordings. After his studies overseas, Tim’s return to the US led to membership in the Northampton Harmony quartet with his friends, the resurrection of Cordelia’s Dad, and more Indian music studies at Wesleyan University, where Tim met his future wife and fellow ethnomusicology student Minja Lausevic and formed the Bosnian/Balkan band Zabe I Babe with her. Tim spent the early ’90s in graduate school, touring the U.S., England, and Europe with Northampton Harmony and Cordelia’s Dad, and recording with those groups and Zabe I Babe. The various bands appeared on MTV, the BBC, CBC, Belgian National Television, All India Radio, and America’s syndicated “Mountain Stage” live performance radio program. The most recent decade of Tim’s career has been spent in working with his many bands (all currently on hiatus), serving as visiting professor of American Music at Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota, conducting ethnomusico- logical research with Minja in the US and abroad, recording and touring as a solo artist, and immersing himself in the Sacred Harp community that exists in unexpected pockets around the country. His “Cold Mountain” work took him and his family to Romania, where much of the movie was filmed, and Tim found himself employed not only as the offscreen singing voice for actor Brendan Gleeson’s character but coaching stars Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and 50 Romanian extras in the shape note style for the movie’s two Sacred Harp songs. He also organized and participated in the chorus that backed Allison Krauss on the Oscar-nominated “The Crimson Tide” in the 2004 Academy Awards telecast. Tim’s musical explorations have not gone unnoticed within the international cultural community. His collaborators and fans, aside from T Bone Burnett and Billy Bob Thornton, include famed record producers Joe Boyd and Steve Albini (who engineered Spine), South India vina virtuoso K. S. Subramanian, bluegrass banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka, classical cellist Yo Yo Ma, and England’s legendary singer/guitarist Martin Carthy. Of Eriksen, Carthy says, “The watchword is Passion.” FRoots magazine echoed that sentiment, calling Tim’s music “dangerously sparing and utterly compelling,” and pronounced Tim “a balladeer of the best kind.” Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.