Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News http://erikviel.com/news.html Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers: In the News Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:52:10 -0700 "Whitehorse" Enters Charts at WGWG http://erikviel.com/news.html#10

 


1. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig


2. John Hiatt – The Open Road


3. Preservation Jazz Band – Preservation


4. Carrie Rodriguez – Love and Circumstance


5. Various – Crazy Heart Sound Track


6. Various – Coal Country Music


7. Matt The Electrician – Animal Boy


8. Patty Griffin – Down Home Church


9. Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave


10. The Steel Wheels – Red Wing


11. Peter Wolf – Midnight Souvenirs


12. Various – Songs of the Spectrum


13. She & Him – Volume Two


14. Solas – The Turning Tide


15. Allison Moorer – Crows


16 Will Kimbrough – Wings


17. Erik Viel & the Eastern Flyers – Whitehorse


18. Darin & Brooke Aldridge – Darin & Brooke Aldridge


19. The Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do


20. Amy Cook – Let the Light In


 

]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#10 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News New Review from Belgium http://erikviel.com/news.html#9
http://www.rootstime.be/

Artiest info
Website
Myspace

CD Baby
Label: Upstat Strong Recordings

(We are working on a good translation. In the interim, try Google translator)]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#9 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News "Whitehorse" Running Well out of the Gate http://erikviel.com/news.html#8 The new album just released on February 15th seems to be very well received in its early stages.


We have had excellent retail sales of the album.


We have just received reviews from the Netherlands: http://www.altcountryforum.nl/ Veel bedankt naar Johan Schoenmakers and Belgium http://www.rootsville.be/ Dank u vriend.. Swa Braeken


We were also fortunate enough to be chosen for retail sale through the famous Caru' Dischi outside of Milan, Italy. Ringraziarla l'amico.. Paolo Caru. http://www.caru.com/categoria.php?pfx=cd


We are also one of the top 10 Guitar Blues albums on CDBaby. http://www.cdbaby.com/Top/10


Also, top 10 Americana albums on CDBaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/Top/106


We are receiving consistent airplay in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, UK,Germany and here in the US. Thanks to the following:


Black Jack Ketchum at WRFG Atlanta


Breeze at KCOR Kansas City


Fred Friction at KDHX in St. Louis


Mike Stephens at WCXI Fenton, Michigan


Warren Catlett at RadioFreeAmericana Verona,VA


Andy John Bradford at AiiRadio Ballymoney UK


Gerritt Caspers at Meerradio Hoofddorp,The Netherlands


Luc Brunot in Milhac, France (Ussel 102 / Brive 91.4 / Tulle 106.9 / Argentat 89.3)


Remo Ricaldone at Susa Onda radio Condove,Italy


Michel Ruer and Martin Gilles at Radio Aria 99.6 Longwy,France.


New reviews: Belgium: http://www.rootstime.be/ Thanks Freddy Celis!

]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#8 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News Return of the Mighty Chestnut http://erikviel.com/news.html#7 ATLANTA (Sept. 16, 2009) Recent plantings of the nearly extinct American chestnut tree–once a beloved and key species in the eastern U.S.–have thrived during their first growing season in national forests. Journalists are invited to a September 23 radio bridge to hear first-hand details of this milestone, which has researchers and chestnut lovers buzzing.
Researchers say this is the first time hundreds of blight-resistant American chestnut trees are successfully growing in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The young trees are being monitored in real forest conditions by scientists at the U.S. Forest Service, the University of Tennessee and partners at The American Chestnut Foundation. Join the radio bridge to hear how today’s test plantings are exceeding expectations and holding promise for future restoration of the species.

For an excellent article regarding the history of the American Chestnut:
http://www.elmpost.org/chestnut.htm]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#7 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News Review http://erikviel.com/news.html#6 http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p04388.htm
by Frank Gutch Jr.
(frank.gutch.jr@gmail.com)

If ever there was a lost Son of the South, it is Erik Viel. 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, recreating the very essence of a South on the rise through its music. Judging from the many Southern musicians making names for themselves these days, perhaps the South is rising again. Erik Viel would certainly give you that impression.

Among the originals on Off the Beaten Path, Viel substitutes songs by a couple of the greats of that 70s era—I'll Be Loving You by Toy Caldwell (Marshall Tucker Band) and Multi-Colored Lady by Gregg Allman—though substitute is perhaps not the word. He, more accurately, inserts them and such that one hardly feels the bump, for there is no great stretch between those by Caldwell and Allman and Viel's own Southern Highway and I'll Wait Another Day. As all are Sons of the South, those are Songs of the South and have that something which distinguishes them from all others, be it the soaring guitar or the Chuck Leavell-like piano or the Eric Quincy Tate style Hammond organ. And it does not hurt to have Doug Gray soundalikes Andrew Black and Nick Gravelding along for the ride on two tracks, providing a Marshall Tucker edge.

Viel is not completely Southern Rock by any means. Between the rockers, he tosses in 'tone poems'—somewhat introspective musical interludes keying on guitar. Complete songs by themselves, they give a break from the olden days, taking the listener on musical journeys more in common with the acoustic guitarists of the 80s, a period of melodic improvisation and experimentation. Sometimes with band, at others with only percussion, Viel proves his worth as musician and composer no less than six times and caps the album off with the ethereal organ/guitar movement Badlands, Chris Corso's Hammond a perfect foil for Viel's spectral electric leads. Among the album's fine moments, this ties it together in feel and sound.

No doubt, a few will be taken aback by the Marshall Tucker nuance here and there and the nods to the Allman Brothers (the cover of Multi-Colored Lady is spot on, by the way), but this goes way beyond tribute. The sound is seamless and only a part of Viel's aura. You can thank Viel's choice of sidemen for a portion of that. These guys can play and play they do. After a few listens, one can hardly tell where the originals end and the covers begin. Even the influence of Southern Rock begins to fade in the flow of the music. After awhile, it's just—well, music. And mighty good music at that.

All songs written by Erik Viel (BMI) except
Multi-Colored Lady/Gregg Allman (Allbro Music & Unichappell Music, Inc),
I'll Be Loving You/Toy Caldwell (Spirit One Music),
and Please Don't Bury Me/John Prine (Walden Music, Inc.).]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#6 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News Across The Pond http://erikviel.com/news.html#4 "Off The Beaten Path" is a very versatile CD. Partly because of the many guest vocalists and also because of the instrumentals. The blues shuffle "Wanderin Blues" features guest vocalist Andrew Black, who proves that blues is his thing. On organ, Chris Corso shines, and that together make it one of my favorite songs."
-Search Review under Archives December 2007 if you read Dutch.
(http://www.rootstime.be/ )
Translation from Dutch

Thank you Freddy Celis.

Also, receiving airplay on:
- www.rootsradio.be Thank you to Arthur van Roy.

Westerlo, Belgium every Thursday from 9 pm till 12 p.m. (www.goldenflash.be )

FRANCE
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/roadtojacksonville/rtjfrench/index.html
"Off the Beaten Path" was reviewed in the French version of the site by Jacques Dersigny.

"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
Road to Jacksonville.com
Translation from French

- FM 94.8 La Rochelle, France
- Limoges, France
Beaub FM (www.beaubfm.com)

- Kaolin FM(www.kaolin-fm.com), RMJ FM and RADIO VASSIVIERE
(www.radio.vassiviere.com) Thank you to Christian Maraillac.

NETHERLANDS
- www.crossroadsradio.nl. Thank you to Jos van den Boom.

SPAIN "Bard of Ontario" Spanish National Public Radio
( http://www.rtve.es/rne/r3/) Radio Nacional de Espane .]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#4 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News Reviews http://erikviel.com/news.html#3 -Gary Schwind
AntiMusic.Com
http://www.antimusic.com/reviews/07/ErikViel.shtml


"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
http://www.musesmuse.com/mrev-erikviel-off.html


"Off the Beaten Path explores special, personal havens. Erik’s ability to share the intangible through his music carries you along secretive paths. One of those mystic places is Saranac – a mountain lake in upstate New York. The panoramic breathing room separating guitars and organ on Badlands is hypnotic. 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

"This guy goes from flat-out Southern Rock, to jangly guitar driven folk to blues to guitar driven acoustic instrumentals and pulls it all off very well. He's backed by some very fine musicians. This is Southern Americana music all the way".
-Dave Pyles
Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange

"Off the Beaten Path finds Viel creating a seamless scrapbook of both people and places…Highlights include the driving country rock of “Southern Highway,” the refreshingly jazzy ode to the North Country, “Bard of Ontario,” and “Wanderin’ Blues,” a superb slow blues with fine vocals from Black, and fat, greasy organ fills from the talented Chris Corso. Equally impressive are the instrumentals, "New River Waltz," "The Kenai," "Saranac," and "Doriando… They're some of the finest moments here, finding Viel wrapping his tasteful guitar work around a series of thoughtful, stripped down performances with just a touch of bass, organ, or percussion where needed. The scorching "Badlands" that wraps up the album, serves as an impressive showcase for Viel's outstanding electric guitar work and he admirably tears things up with some of his finest playing on the album."
- Rob Lehrian
Supporting the Blues]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#3 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News What's New http://erikviel.com/news.html#2 http://www.homegrownmusic.net/

- An interview with Erik is featured in the just released Fall 2007 issue of Southeast Indy Report magazine.
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- Songs from "Off the Beaten Path" are currently being played on:

- WRFG 89.3 FM radio in Atlanta .(http://www.wrfg.org/)
Thanks BlackJack!

- Radio 99.7 FM in Brisbane, Australia on "Sidestream". Thanks Arthur Elliott!

- 'Acoustic Planet' Broadcasting on CHES 101.5 FM in Erin, Ontario. Thanks Steve Clarke.
http://www.erinradio.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=124

- Netherlands and Belgium on Radio Winschoten
http://www.radiowinschoten.nl/

- KPFT 90.1 FM Houston,TX

- "The Open Mike Cafe" Warren, Michigan. Thank you Mike Stephens!
(http://www.gcast.com/u/openmike/openmikecafe?nr=1&&s=246167892)

- "Helsinki's Blues Cafe" Finland. Thank you Geoff!
(http://www.live365.com/stations/catnadja)

- Roots Rock Radio.
http://rrradio.com/
Thanks Richard Taylor!]]> http://erikviel.com/news.html#2 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News Erik Viel CD Now Available http://erikviel.com/news.html#1 http://erikviel.com/news.html#1 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Available at CD Baby and iTunes. - Erik Viel & The Eastern Flyers - In the News