★★★★★
Last year, singer/songwriter/producer Eric Roberson celebrated the 10th anniversary of his landmark independent soul music recording, The Vault, Vol 1.0, while this year marks his 20th year as a recording artist, signified by his sole major label single release as a solo artist, "The Moon," for Warner Brothers Records in 1994...
- www.soultracks.com
2014-02-03
★★★★★
It's been eight albums. Usually by the eighth album a fan knows all of his or her favorite artist's tricks, gimmicks, affectations, strengths and weaknesses--fresh surprises are the least expected. So, by this time in an artist's career, some once devoted fans move on, bored with familiar timbre and techniques that once inspired awe and reverence...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-11-07
★★★★★
Eric Roberson is a star, which sounds strange to people who only listen to black music via BET and Top 40 radio and have never heard of him. But make no mistake, Roberson's fan base is considerable, and rabid. After six well-received, well-constructed independent releases, songwriting for the likes of Vivian Green and 112 (his "Funny Feelings" remains one of the strongest songs that group ever recorded), and constant touring, Roberson can rightly be called the king of underground soul...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
In basketball they refer to it as being In the Zone; it's the point when a player is peaking, when the hoop seems the size of the Grand Canyon and he or she has the confidence that every shot will go in. Well, Eric Roberson in currently in the Zone as an artist, and is doing it on his own terms. More than a decade into his career, he's selling out concerts in increasingly large venues and his four previous albums continue to be hot sellers at indie stores and at his shows...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
For an artist who has risen to the top of the indie soul world on the strength of his relentless touring and a stage magnetism reminiscent of Marvin Gaye, it was only natural that Eric Roberson would eventually release a "live" CD. But the idea went from the obvious to the inspired by the packaging of the CD with a DVD that includes both live performances and offstage material explaining his history and the history of each of the songs...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
There is a generational sea change in indie soul music and on Music Fan First Eric "Erro" Roberson proves he's still firmly a leader in those transitions. Following the trajectory of jazz, soul is steadily moving from its version of be-bop cool to a more eclectic, electronic-funk hybrid age in music...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
These are soulless times. Foolish old men wage war, pad their pockets and watch in amused contempt and pitilessness as the world falls to pieces. Thuggish young men coo contrived lyrics lifted from fictional representations of street life in HBO's The Wire or The Sopranos spiced up with an occasional sprinkle of Sex in the City minus the female autonomy. Morose consumers immobilized by the heavy diet of leaden bullshit languish in political and aesthetic purgatory...
- www.prefixmag.com
2008-07-30
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