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ERIC PARK RECORDINGS

Eric Park's latest CD, "Shakespeare and the Sonettes: The Bard's Blues" - WL 106 has sold all 200 copies of the first edition, and only a few dozen copies remain of the second edition. All songs are "live" in the studio, basically one guy and a guitar, with minimal corrections. Vocal harmonies were added in later by "the Sonettes", Donna Hyatt, director of the 2006 SF Free Folk Fest, and Suzanne Fox, long-time President of the Board of Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. The CD has 10 songs: Five original blues songs telling the stories of Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Othello, and Richard III, interspersed with modern fingerstyle versions of four Elizabethan and one Edwardian tune: Listen: Mistress Mine Where are you Roaming? (12th Night), Lover and Lass (All's Well That Ends Well), Come Live with Me & Be My Love (Andrew Marvel poem), Listen: (Nothing up my) Greensleeves, and One Morning in May. Read 3 reviews of this CD.

The CD is now for sale in a number of stores: Music Millennium, the biggest music store in Portland, Oregon; Buffalo Brothers Guitars in Carlsbad, CA; Folk Music Center in Claremont (East LA), CA; Central Coast Music in Morro Bay, CA; Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA; Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco, CA; Bookpeople in Moscow, Idaho; and BWI Distributors. BWI specialize in marketing to libraries.

$16.95 includes shipping. Click to order. Photos: CD front and inside cover CD back cover Read lyrics for Othello's Blues and Richard III's Blues. Song list: Romeo and Juliet's Blues (3:25); Mistress Mine Where are you Roaming? (1:30);. King Lear's Blues (2:45); (Nothing up my) Greensleeves (1:40);.Hamlet's Blues (3:15); It was a Lover and his Lass (3:00); Othello's Blues (3:10); One Morning in May (4:05); Richard III's Blues (2:50); Come Live With me (and be my Love) (3:00)

"Woodlark" - WL 105 - 1994 CD on Woodlark Music. Selections from Eric Park's 4 cassette tape albums, plus 5 tunes never previously recorded. 20 songs.
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Iran-Contra Scam
Rain Forest
Rake and Ramblin’ Boy
Toots
Banana Roll
Eric‘s Generic Blues
Hummingbird
Un Canadien Errant
Portugal
Manha do Carnivao

Whole Wheat Rag
Fool's Gold
Passing Breeze
Heathcliff‘s Last Ride
Life Ain‘t A Country Song
Comandante
Pavarotti Dreams
Benedicite / Desert Glide
A Capillow
Christmas Truce

"Mr. Gen-U-Wine Plays Bottleneck Slide Guitar"- WL 104. 1993 cassette tape with 12 songs, including a 4 song medley. All songs feature Eric Park playing slide guitar.
Song List: Playlist, Iviza Farewell, Got to Know History, Benedicite Medley (Desert Glide, Rake and Ramblin’ Boy, and Testing Ground), Canon in KDVS (Pachelbel), Eric‘s Generic Blues, Hummingbird, How the West Was Won, Renaissance Faire, Passing Breeze, Heathcliff‘s Last Ride, and Gymnopedie #1 (Satie).
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"Peacemas: Peace Songs for the Holiday Season"- WL 103. 1987 cassette tape with 11 songs, including a 5 song medley. Guitar by Eric Park.
Song list: Peacemas, Christmas Truce, El Salvador '86, Carol Fragment/Benedicite, Holiday Blues, Salem Prison, How the West Was Won, Hobo's Lullaby, Snowbird Suite (Desert Ride, Winnemucca Moon, Las Vegas Glide, Seligman, Testing Grounds), Nuke-Free Zone, and Playlist Blues.
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