Ericland: Father To The Man

Father To The Man

My dad worked in a factory

I tried it too but I couldn’t do

With the tedium of the everyday

I flunked out I’m not ashamed to say

While he was steady I was a flake

I lived my life from scrape to scrape

Now I’m older I’m a lot like him

History coming back again

I’ve got this name and it doesn’t fit

I don’t know what I can do about it

They say the child is the father to the man

I’ll just do what I can

Started out on the factory floor

Worked his way through the boardroom door

Voted for the right wing all his life

Though I tried hard he couldn’t see the light

I loved my dad but I don’t want to be him

A history coming back again

I’ve got this name and it doesn’t fit

I don’t know what I can do about it

They say the child is the father to the man

I’ll just do what I can

Eric - electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar

Steve Goulding - drums

Ross Goldstein - Vox Continental organ

Alex Turnquist - electric 12 string

Amy Rigby - Moog Opus, background vocals

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As Wreckless Eric he needs little introduction — he wrote and recorded the classic Whole Wide World and had a hit with it back in 1977. Since then it's been a hit for countless other artists including The Monkees, Cage The Elephant and most recently for Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
As Eric Goulden it's a little more complicated - a musician, artist, writer, recording engineer and producer, he didn’t like either the music business or the mechanics of fame or the name he’d been given to hide behind, so he crawled out of the spotlight and went underground. He went on to release twenty something albums in forty something years under various names - The Len Bright Combo, Le Beat Group Electrique, The Donovan Of Trash, The Hitsville House Band, and with his wife as one half of Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, finally realizing he was stuck with the name Wreckless Eric.
Eric’s three most recent albums ‘amERICa’, Construction Time & Demolition and Transience are widely praised as his best work to date. His albums encapsulate pop, bubblegum, garage trash and psychedelia. His live performance is a sonic journey through time and space incorporating songs from all stages of his long career. Unmasked, unhinged and still alive - a survivor of Covid-19 (resulting in a near-fatal heart attack), Eric presents himself alone if not simply with electric and acoustic guitars, electrified harmonica, piano and electronics of his own making.

The achievement for Wreckless Eric is to have made new music that connects to old music without maudlin nostalgia or huffy defensiveness, refusing to let age dim the passion for the music that means the most to him. In other words, he rocks.
Ken Tucker FRESH AIR / NPR

Burns like a lost Crazy Horse classic.
Ben Graham SHINDIG!

A scarily powerful and forward-moving musical threat.
David Quantick MOJO MAGAZINE