AMERICAN VANITY

HOFBAUER, ERIC

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The Fad
Coke (For Our Addicts)
Gnossienne #1
Mandrake
American Eulogy
Better Get Hit In Your Soul
BA-DEE Image
Greensleeves in Vermont
Ode To Little Drummer Joy
$...(part 1)
Old Man River
New Coke (part 1)
Driftin' On A Reed
American Innocence
$...(part 2)
Dukes Of Hazzard
Take On Me
Femme Fatale
New Coke (part 2)
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NOTES

He can play lightning fast phrases or slow blues, sentimental melodies or dissonant
flurries, and he’s certainly a brilliant player. Fans of guitar forays will be especially
amazed by what he does on several pieces…consistent musical brilliance.
—Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper

…this is a muscular and audacious display of technical virtuosity…he’s got my attention.
—Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com

His approach is stately as classical music but loaded with the nose-thumbing attitude of
American music (found also in Thelonious Monk, Charles Ives and Lightnin’ Hopkins).
—Mark Keresman, JazzReview.com

Using hefty fingerstyle chops on acoustic guitar, he weaves bebop phrases, discrete bass
lines, prepared guitar, dissonance, and fragmented improvisation into a cool and unique
personal statement…Hofbauer sustains the personality of each arrangement while re-
examining its elements. [His] original pieces are equally interesting, angular and
thorny…
—Gary Lee Joyner, Acoustic Guitar

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