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“There are more fantastic unknown musicians than known. Erik Viel, surrounded by a very strong band, has produced a masterpiece.”
-- Luc 'The Healer' Rootstime Belgium
" Erik Viel and his band, The Eastern Flyers, are great musicians"
-- Jacques Dersigny Road to Jacksonville 2010
"With music firmly entrenched in the mid-70s and a guitar inhabiting ghosts of Toy Caldwell, Dickie Betts and Pete Carr, Viel succeeds where so many others have failed."
-- Frank Gutch Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange
"This is a tour down the lesser known highways, with a guitar toting Thomas Hardy."
-- David Cowling Americana UK
"A big strapper from Georgia, Erik Viel gives us a very subtle album, with bucolic aspects, between country blues, folk and for our pleasure southern rock...and what southern rock my friends....recommended strongly."
-- Jacques Dersigny The Road to Jacksonville 2007
"These songs are very rich and well-constructed. The vocals are never strained and the instrumentals are all very easy to listen to. This is a quality CD by a top-notch singer-songwriter. I expect a lot of good things from Erik Viel.
-- Gary Schwind AntiMusic.Com
"The jazzy ode to the North Country, Bard of Ontario is an extremely attractive instrumental."
-- RootsTime Belgium
"Erik Viel is a talented writer and arranger of both instrumental and vocal Southern-style Americana, and he has a traditionalist’s taste in covers, too. Off the Beaten Path is a fulfilling trip."
-- Chip Withrow The Muse's Muse Music Reviews
"Off the Beaten Path explores special, personal havens. Erik’s ability to share the intangible through his music carries you along secretive paths... The buffet of genres digitally encrypted on the plastic disc feel good together . . . like your favorite flannel shirt on a crisp autumn day . . . as comforting as soul food."
-- Black Jack Ketchum WRFG/89.3 FM – Good Morning Blues Atlanta Radio Personality