Anders Parker

Anders Parker
OriginUnited States
OccupationMusician
Labels
  • Munich
  • Baryon
  • Bladen County
  • Rounder
  • Skycap
  • Recorded & Freed
  • Sunset Club

Anders Keith Parker[1] is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades.[2][3] 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.[4] 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.[4] He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly.[4] In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline.[5]

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.[4][6][7] 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.[8]

Career

In 2004, Parker released his Tell It to the Dust album on the Baryon label.[9]

Parker's mini-album / EP The Wounded Astronaut was released in March 2005.[10]

In 2006 / 2007, Anders Parker's self-titled album was released on Baryon BYN-006.[11][12]

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

  1. ^ "Airport Road". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
  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. ^ a b c d andersparker.com, Anders Parker Skyscraper Crow album bio, accessed July 31, 2016.
  5. ^ "Live Reviews: Sparklehorse/Varnaline April 13, 1999 The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto"[usurped]. Chart Attack, review by Chris Burland
  6. ^ Valslist.com, "Val’s Chat with artist Anders Parker" Archived 2016-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, c. Sept. 2014, accessed July 31, 2016.
  7. ^ Dan Bolles, "A Song is a Song", Seven Days, Sept. 2, 2009, accessed July 31, 2016.
  8. ^ Dan Bolles, "Soundbites: First Jazz Fest Acts Announced; Anders Parker Returns", Seven Days, March 9, 2016, accessed July 31, 2016.
  9. ^ Tucson Weekly, July 21, 2005 - Tell It to the Ears
    Here's Anders Parker's gimmick: He seems incapable of making bad music By Stephen Seigel
  10. ^ Nightflight - 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 - ANDERS PARKER: ANDERS PARKER By Michael Metivier
  12. ^ Discogs - Anders Parker – Anders Parker
  13. ^ "Fresh Noise: New Multitudes Full Album Stream". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
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