Wreckless Eric
Best Of 2023: Songs In Order Of Preference, October 31st, 2023
Pavement covering Neil Young
Best Of 2023: Songs In Order Of Preference, September 30th, 2023
this is the turning point
Best Of 2023: Songs In Order Of Preference, July 31st, 2023
from bedlam to limbo
The Early Bird Is Late: Top Five Albums 8-25-23 – 8-31-23
hard to overstate the case for Eric
Best Of 2023: Songs In Order Of Preference, July 31st, 2023
siddles next to soul and makes a turn
Best Of 2023: Songs In Order Of Preference Through The Halfway Mark: June 30th, 2023
a gorgeous slice of guitar AOR
Nick Lowe And Wreckless Eric: Two Elvis Costello Contemporaries Who Had A Better Second Act Than He Did
what comes round goes round
rock nyc In Heavy Rotation: Thursday, August 11th, 2016
At odds with the feigned Americanism
Last Call: Final Songs Off new Albums 11-13-19 – 11-19-15
Have A Great Day – Wreckless Eric – Eric takes on clichés on this pretty ballad to end the album, and is that Amy Rigby on background solos? A low key but pretty conclusion – B+
10 Songs: Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
Reconnez Cherie – Wreckless Eric – One hit wonder per Elvis Costello, and this wasn’t it, so I guess he was a two hit wonder. Effortlessly romantic working class hopes and dreams, in bedsitland. Plus that horns – A
Oldies But Goldies: Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby At Bowery Electric In 2010
seems to be our day for all things Wreckless Eric, who has survived a horrible putdown by Elvis Costello, and thrived in a market place where all there is is albums. His latest, AmERICa is our album of the week and in keeping with the moo, here I am reviewing his gig at the Bowery Electric, with his wife, the absolutely awesome Amy Rigby
Be Here Now: New Albums Reviewed 11-13-15 – 11-20-15
His third album in two years is his best in two years, and the other two were pretty good. The Wreckless Eric bedsit land self-aware vibe is less updated since the Live Stiffs days and more perfected. No money in it, of course, but hey, there is honor in writing the best songs left standing from of the class of 1977. Who would have thought it? – ALBUM OF THE WEEK – A-
These Days: Friday, November 11th, 2015
Did anybody else notice Elvis Costello’s brutal put down of Wreckless Eric as a nobody with one good song? I dunno, but I will put Eric’s last three albums, including today’s release, back to back with Costello’s and Eric will beat him senseless