Anders Parker

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American singer-songwriter

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Anders Keith Parker is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades. He has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as a key member in bands such as Varnaline and Space Needle. Parker has been involved in various collaborations over the years including Gob Iron with Jay Farrar.

Biography

Anders Parker is a first-generation Swedish American. He was born circa 1970 and grew up in Upstate New York, in the Hudson Valley, in a musical family. His father lived in Vermont. In the 1990s Anders moved briefly to Portland, Oregon. He spent some time in North Carolina where he lived with Matt Brown, founder of Bladen County Records, and worked in a bar. He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly. In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline.

Parker lived for some time in New York City. In 2008 he moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he lived with his wife as of 2014. In 2016 he had been living in the town of Alert, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic – the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 508 miles from the North Pole.

Career

In 2004, Parker released his Tell It to the Dust album on the Baryon label.

Parker's mini-album / EP The Wounded Astronaut was released in March 2005.

In 2006 / 2007, Anders Parker's self-titled album was released on Baryon BYN-006.

Career overview

Parker released his first record, Man of Sin, in 1996 under the name Varnaline. The record was written and recorded entirely by Parker on a 4-track in his Portland, OR apartment. He went on to build a band around the Varnaline name composed of Jud Ehrbar on drums and John Parker on bass. The trio released two records under the Varnaline name (Varnaline and Sweet Life) and Parker made two other albums under the same name by himself (A Shot and a Beer EP and Songs in a Northern Key).

Varnaline toured with various acts over its brief career, including Bob Mould, Son Volt, Sparkle Horse, The Verses as well as Lollapallooza 1997.

Parker was also a member of the noise-rock band Space Needle. He was first a touring member and then joined the band as a full member and appeared on the second Space Needle album, The Moray Eels Eat The Space Needle.

Parker met Steve Earle soon after the release of Man of Sin and Earle extended the offer to work together sometime in the future. The result was the release of Varnaline's [[Songs in a Northern Key] on Earle's E-Squared/Artemis record label in 2001.

In 2004 Parker released his first solo record under his own name. Entitled 'Tell it to the Dust', the record and following EP, The Wounded Astronaut, featured appearances by Jay Farrar, Joan Wasser, Richard Buckner, Kendall Meade and Jud Ehrbar.

In 2006 Parker released his second full-length record. The self-titled Anders Parker was record in Los Angeles with producer Adam Lasus. The album features musicians Eric Heywood (pedal steel), Jennifer Condos (bass), Ken Coomer (drums), and Kirk Swan (guitar). Sally Timms, Kendall Meade and Kristen Mooney all sang on the record.

Also in 2006 Parker released an album that he recorded with Son Volt founder Jay Farrar under the name Gob Iron. Entitled Death Songs for the Living, the record was series of folk songs reinterpreted by Parker and Farrar. The two played all the instruments, sang and produced the record.

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Discography

Anders Parker

Gob Iron (with Jay Farrar)

  • Death Songs for the Living (2006)

Varnaline

  • Songs in a Northern Key (2001)
  • Sweet Life (1998)
  • A Shot and a Beer (EP) (1997)
  • Varnaline (1997)
  • Man of Sin (1996)

Space Needle

  • The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle (1997)
  • Recordings 1994–1997 (compilation) (2006)

References

References

  1. "Airport Road". American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  2. Gilbert, Barry. (4 November 2004). "Anders Parker does well on his own". [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]].
  3. Barry, John W. (13 December 2002). "Anders Parker makes music that's familiar". [[Poughkeepsie Journal]].
  4. andersparker.com, [http://andersparker.com/resources/bio/ Anders Parker Skyscraper Crow album bio], accessed July 31, 2016.
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  6. Valslist.com, [http://valslist.com/pages/show/anders-parker-interview "Val’s Chat with artist Anders Parker"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-09-17 , c. Sept. 2014, accessed July 31, 2016.)
  7. Dan Bolles, [http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-song-is-a-song/Content?oid=2138181 "A Song is a Song"], ''Seven Days'', Sept. 2, 2009, accessed July 31, 2016.
  8. Dan Bolles, [http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/soundbites-first-jazz-fest-acts-announced-anders-parker-returns/Content?oid=3221552 "Soundbites: First Jazz Fest Acts Announced; Anders Parker Returns"], ''Seven Days'', March 9, 2016, accessed July 31, 2016.
  9. ''Tucson Weekly'', July 21, 2005 - [https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/tell-it-to-the-ears/Content?oid=1080994 Tell It to the Ears
    Here's Anders Parker's gimmick: He seems incapable of making bad music By Stephen Seigel]
  10. Nightflight - [https://nightflights.de/DRW-Gesamtplaylist%20V_1.5.pdf Alan Bangs‘ Nightflight, 206 Alle Playlists von Alan Bangs‘ Nightflight bei DRadio Wissen von März 2010 – Dezember 2013, 24. Anders Parker – The Wounded Astronaut, 6:08, Album: “The Wounded Astronaut”, Release Date: 22. März 2005, Label: Baryon Records]
  11. ''Pop Matters'', 26 November 2006 - [https://www.popmatters.com/anders-parker-anders-parker-2495735541.html ANDERS PARKER: ANDERS PARKER By Michael Metivier]
  12. Discogs - [https://www.discogs.com/release/3275959-Anders-Parker-Anders-Parker Anders Parker – Anders Parker]
  13. "Fresh Noise: New Multitudes Full Album Stream".

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