ELI GARDINER – “BLACK CROW”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Live In MinneapolisΒ is the first live album from Minnesota based Americana songwriter Eli Gardiner and his 6th overall.
The path of a song is always changing, into new ears and through new perspective. Eli has always chased it, though. Sometimes as a solo or duo act, and now with his fully formed 5 piece band. Live In MinneapolisΒ is a snapshot in time, a band in a room, on a cold February night.
Eli was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to a musical family. His dad played classical guitar and his mom piano and flute. Taking up songwriting initially as poetry, he started to write songs as his dad taught him chords on an old nylon string Yamaha guitar.
Live In MinneapolisΒ it has songs from many different times in Eliβs life. From brand new songs, to songs that are 20 years old. Songs of travel, tornadoes and finding your voice.
The album was recorded live at Aster CafΓ© February 3rd 2023 by Alchemy Audio. It was mixed and mastered at Gardiner Productions. All songs written by Eli Gardiner. Greg Schutte on drums. Kevin Gamble on keys. Dan Schwartz played lap steel and electric guitar. Nick Salisbury on bass and Eli Gardiner on guitar and vocals
Sometimes songs come and there’s no easy explanation. Sometimes they expand as they are played live, morphing and contorting. The song “Black Crow” was written on a porch of a cabin in the North Shore of Minnesota during the summer of 2021, when the air was filled with smoke from the nearby wildfires. It could be about death, nature, or something supernatural, or nothing at all.
ARTIST QUOTE
Eli Gardiner
Live In Minneapolis
(Independent)
Release Date: June 2, 2023
ArtistΒ Links
