Eric Ziegenhagen

UPCOMING SHOWS

Sunday, December 9, 7 p.m.
Chicago, IL
Uncommon Ground
3800 N. Clark
With JT Nero

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CD -- YOU'RE TALKING TO THE WRONG GUY
--Available at CD Baby and elsewhere
--Audio samples at CD Baby
--Available through iTunes and major digital distributors
--Reviews listed below

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NEW SHOW RECORDED
Schubas show from July 31, 2005, now on sale for
download at emusiclive

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"HEAT" ON NPR'S ALL SONGS CONSIDERED
My song "Heat" was recently featured on the "Open Mic" on
National Public Radio's All Songs Considered.

My new (and first) CD, You're Talking to the Wrong Guy, was released in early 2005 and has received its share of good press (see below). It was recorded by Dan Dietrich at Wall to Wall Recording (14 songs in 10 hours). Elizabeth Lindau of Canasta plays violin on a few songs. Nell Taylor made the CD artwork.

You're Talking to the Wrong Guy is available through CD Baby and in Chicago at Reckless Records and Tower Records (Clark & Belden location).

It is also available for download through iTunes and most other major digital retailers.

Preview songs at MySpace.

A recording of a show I played at Schubas in October 2004 can be purchased for downloaded through eMusic Live. My recent Schubas show from July 31, 2005, is also for sale at
eMusicLive.

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RECENT REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

The Chicago Reader recently ran a lengthy profile about me and the CD.

Ooh, ooh, Dusted Magazine reviewed the CD.

Mike Bennett also wrote a thorough review of the CD.

And more:

"Chicago’s Eric Ziegenhagen (a native Minneapolitan) makes strikingly unconventional folk music on his debut longplayer, You’re Talking to the Wrong Guy, opting for a rarely seen approach to acoustic guitar playing (he writes and performs on a four-string nylon-string open-tuned guitar slung flat across his lap). The unconventional approach may have been born out of necessity (Eric’s father would only let him play his guitar as long as he kept it in the case, and after he learned to play in that unconventional manner he never let it go), but it yields truly rich results, a sweetly plucked sound that feels oddly full in its nakedness. With a warbly voice strangely reminiscent of outsider music legend Daniel Johnston in its boyish innocence, Ziegenhagen has turned plenty of heads in search of something new in his current place of residence. Come on down and see what all the fuss is about. "
-- Rob Van Alstyn, Pulse of the Twin Cities (March 9, 2005)

"Here's an odd tidbit. Local folk singer/songwriter Ziegenhagen learned to play guitar as a young child, but his father wouldn't let him take the guitar out of the case, so he learned with the instrument lying on its back. That's why he plays with it in his lap. Weird. Tonight [Friday, 1/28] sees the release of his first record, 'You're Talking to the Wrong Guy,' a collection of fourteen folk songs played on a four-stringed acoustic guitar, sung with true Midwest intimacy. 'Can't Hold Love at Bay' begins the record and puts you next to a dirty, boat-ridden lake down south, lke an opening to one of those movies, when you're trying to establish Southern climate. Ziegenhagen sounds a little like Leonard Cohen but comes off more lighthearted, with his lyrics bouncing from the extremes of weather to the disappointment of love. When it's all said and done, Ziegenhagen shows how to balance personal lyrics with the general mouthful that appeals to everyone, and 'You're Talking to the Wrong Guy' exists on its own as a record of despondency that wisely never takes itself too seriously."
-- Tom Lynch, New City Chicago (January 26, 2005)

"An intelligent and entertaining tunesmith with a vivid and playful imagination."
-Dan Wilkinson, Americana UK (May 2005)

More Nice Things Said

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