Tim Eriksen
Tim Eriksen (born 1966 ) is an American musician, musicologist and professor. He is the head of the band Cordelia 's Dad, solo artist, consultant and musician with the award-winning soundtrack of the movie Cold Mountain.
Cordelia's Dad
Cordelia's Dad combines Old- Time Music and punk rock influences to create a unique sound. The Village Voice describes the band as "semi- reformed punk turned shape -note singers ... recently gone Entirely acoustic, but buzzing with metaphorical electricity. " The band has released nine albums, renowned Festival attended performances, such as the The Newport Folk Festival and also toured with well-known bands such as Nirvana, Uncle Tupelo and Weezer.
Musicologist
Eriksen is a Doctor of Philosophy, graduate student of ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and held as a music professor lecturing at Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of Minnesota. He also taught in Poland and the Czech Republic. Tim Eriksen is a collector of many variations of folk songs and traditional music researcher Yugoslavia. Eriksen contributed his extensive knowledge in folk music as a consultant of the soundtrack of the movie Cold Mountain.
Solo artist
On the Cold Mountain soundtrack Eriksen sang along with Riley Baugus traditional songs like " I Wish My Baby Was Born " and "The Cuckoo". He was part of The Great High Mountain Tour, which the traditional music of Cold Mountain and O Brother, Where Art Thou? presented.
Eriksen also released two solo albums, Tim Eriksen and Every Sound Below. Pop Matters Review of Every Sound Below describes it as "stunning mixture of traditional hymns, songs from the American Civil War, and Eriksen 's own compositions".
The Sacred Harp, the documentation Awake, My Soul accompanying soundtrack Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp includes a song by Eriksen and one of Cordelia 's Dad. Paste Magazine describes Eriksen 's performance of Sacred Harp songs at a concert in Atlanta as a "stand -out " and said Eriksen " best at what Adapting the raw power of Sacred Harp to his own arrangements.
Eriksen was also a guest on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, where he performed the traditional folk song " O, Death".