{"id":14019,"date":"2018-02-03T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14019"},"modified":"2018-02-03T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T12:01:39","slug":"album-review-eric-anders-eleven-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/03\/album-review-eric-anders-eleven-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Eric Anders &#8212; Eleven Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14020\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eric_anders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eric_anders.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eric_anders-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/eric_anders-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>It&#8217;s often said that the 1960s were the Golden Age of protest music. By the end of that decade, times had changed. The thinking goes that after the disillusionment of the assassinations of RFK and MLK, the Vietnam debacle and Watergate, Americans turned inward; author Tom Wolfe went so far as to coin the 1970s the \u201cMe\u201d Decade. But against a renewed assault on some of American society&#8217;s most marginalized groups \u2013 people of color, immigrants, the poor, the LGBT \u2013 there are early signs that a new age of protest music may be at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Anders&#8217; <i>Eleven Nine<\/i> is a meditation on our times. The opening cut, \u201cThe Fire Has Burned Too Long\u201d has a sound and feel redolent of <i>Nightcrawler<\/i>-era Pete Yorn (as d a few of the album&#8217;s tracks), but this Bay Area singer\/songwriter has more on his mind \u2013 and more in his musical approach&#8211; than one style. A cover of \u201cWho&#8217;ll Stop the Rain\u201d doesn&#8217;t add much to the Creedence Clearwater Revival original, but then that&#8217;s likely not the point; instead, its inclusion is meant to underscore Anders&#8217; social conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Anders&#8217; songs evoke memories of the rock-leaning end of classic protest music: \u201cHow Low and Why\u201d may remind some listeners of CSNY&#8217;s Neil Young showcase, \u201cOhio.\u201d But the most compelling song \u2013 both musically and in its lyrical content \u2013 is \u201cLooking Forward to Your Fall,\u201d an unabashed middle-finger aimed squarely at the current \u2013 and one must remember, temporary \u2013 resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s title is a clever way of expressing that the date of Trump&#8217;s election is in some ways a mirror image of the disaster that happened on American soil on 9\/11. That connection might sound like hyperbole, but to those pushed to the margins of society, the connection is perhaps easier to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Anders doesn&#8217;t offer any easy answers \u2013 in large part because none exist \u2013 but he raises the issues, and does so in an appealing musical context. And that&#8217;s enough to make hearing his music a worthwhile experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often said that the 1960s were the Golden Age of protest music. By the end of that decade, times had changed. 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