Biography

Few stories underscore the radical changes experienced by the post-millennial music industry than that of Eric Hutchinson. Originally nurtured and then abandoned by an established label started by a pop superstar, Hutchinson then got discovered by a much larger audience while unsigned, thanks to a digital plug by a notorious Hollywood gossip. Born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., Hutchinson first began performing in public while attending Emerson College, a performing arts-oriented university located in downtown Boston. Between Emerson's influential campus radio station, WERS, and the thriving local singer/songwriter scene, the guitarist and pianist found enough of an audience for his folk- and jazz-inflected brand of AAA pop (somewhere between Jeff Buckley and John Mayer) to move from Boston to Los Angeles and make a career of it. Hutchinson self-released his debut album, That Could've Gone Better, on his own Let's Break label in summer 2003. The album gained the attention of Madonna's Warner Bros-distributed label, Maverick Records, which had previously broken similar artists like Alanis Morissette and Michelle Branch. However, as Hutchinson was preparing his major-label debut, Maverick Records became embroiled in a lawsuit with its parent company, which effectively shut down the label; extricating himself from his Maverick contract took Hutchinson the better part of two years, but he returned to his own label in 2006 with the release of the wryly titled live EP Before I Sold Out. After the release of Hutchinson's second studio album, Sounds Like This, in summer 2007, gossip maven Perez Hilton raved about the album on his blog. That one mention on one of the most popular websites in the world sent Sounds Like This into the Top Ten most downloaded albums online, peaking at number seven in September 2007. Warner Bros. re-released the album in 2008. Hutchinson followed up with the 2012 studio album, Moving Up Living Down, featuring the single "Watching You Watch Him." In 2014, Hutchinson delivered his fifth full-length effort, Pure Fiction, on Let's Break. . Few stories underscore the radical changes experienced by the post-millennial music industry than that of Eric Hutchinson. Originally nurtured and then abandoned by an established label started by a pop superstar, Hutchinson then got discovered by a much larger audience while unsigned, thanks to a digital plug by a notorious Hollywood gossip. Born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., Hutchinson first began performing in public while attending Emerson College, a performing arts-oriented university located in downtown Boston. Between Emerson's influential campus radio station, WERS, and the thriving local singer/songwriter scene, the guitarist and pianist found enough of an audience for his folk- and jazz-inflected brand of AAA pop (somewhere between Jeff Buckley and John Mayer) to move from Boston to Los Angeles and make a career of it. Hutchinson self-released his debut album, That Could've Gone Better, on his own Let's Break label in summer 2003. The album gained the attention of Madonna's Warner Bros-distributed label, Maverick Records, which had previously broken similar artists like Alanis Morissette and Michelle Branch. However, as Hutchinson was preparing his major-label debut, Maverick Records became embroiled in a lawsuit with its parent company, which effectively shut down the label; extricating himself from his Maverick contract took Hutchinson the better part of two years, but he returned to his own label in 2006 with the release of the wryly titled live EP Before I Sold Out. After the release of Hutchinson's second studio album, Sounds Like This, in summer 2007, gossip maven Perez Hilton raved about the album on his blog. That one mention on one of the most popular websites in the world sent Sounds Like This into the Top Ten most downloaded albums online, peaking at number seven in September 2007. Warner Bros. re-released the album in 2008. Hutchinson followed up with the 2012 studio album, Moving Up Living Down, featuring the single "Watching You Watch Him." In 2014, Hutchinson delivered his fifth full-length effort, Pure Fiction, on Let's Break.

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Top Songs
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Rock & Roll	Sounds Like This	4:00	$1.29
2.	OK, It's Alright With Me	Sounds Like This	2:31	$1.29
3.	Breakdown More	Moving Up Living Down	4:05	$1.29
4.	Watching You Watch Him	Moving Up Living Down	3:31	$1.29
5.	Tell the World	Pure Fiction (Bonus Track V..	2:41	$1.29
6.	All Over Now	Sounds Like This	3:44	$1.29
7.	Breakdown More (Live)	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	3:46	$1.29
8.	Little More	Pure Fiction (Bonus Track V..	3:16	$1.29
9.	You Don't Have to Believe Me	Sounds Like This	3:46	$1.29
10.	People I Know	Moving Up Living Down	3:46	$1.29
11.	Back to Where I Was	Sounds Like This	3:10	$1.29
12.	Oh!	Sounds Like This	3:53	$1.29
13.	Love Like You	Pure Fiction (Bonus Track V..	2:36	$1.29
14.	Best Days	Moving Up Living Down	4:04	$1.29
15.	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic..	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	2:54	$1.29
16.	OK It's Alright With Me (Live)	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	3:06	$1.29
17.	Forever	Pure Fiction (Bonus Track V..	3:39	$1.29
18.	Not There Yet	Moving Up Living Down	3:25	$1.29
19.	Rock & Roll	Rock & Roll - Single	4:00	$1.29
20.	Rock & Roll	Sisterhood of the Traveling..	4:00	$1.29
21.	Food Chain	Sounds Like This	3:41	$1.29
22.	Outside Villanova	Sounds Like This	4:15	$1.29
23.	Little More (Live at Pandora)	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	2:49	$1.29
24.	Love Like You (Live at Pandora)	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	2:45	$1.29
25.	Rock & Roll (Live)	Almost Solo in NYC (Live)	4:35	$1.29

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