Anders Parker is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades.
He has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as a key member in bands such as Varnaline and
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center f ...
. Parker has been involved in various collaborations over the years including
Gob Iron Gob Iron is an American musical group officially formed in 2006. It consists of Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Varnaline's Anders Parker. Their debut album, '' Death Songs for the Living'' was released on October 31, 2006 by Transmit Soun ...
with
Jay Farrar
Jay Farrar (born December 26, 1966) is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis. A member of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his establis ...
.
Biography
Anders Parker is a first-generation
Swedish American
Swedish Americans ( sv, svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedes, Swedish ancestry. They include the 1.2 million Swedish immigrants during 1865–1915, who formed tight-knit communities, as well as their descendants and more recent immigrants.
...
.
[andersparker.com]
Anders Parker Skyscraper Crow album bio
accessed July 31, 2016. He was born circa 1970 and grew up in
Upstate New York
Upstate New York is a geographic region consisting of the area of New York State that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area. Although the precise boundary is debated, Upstate New York excludes New York City and Long Is ...
, in the
Hudson Valley
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, in a musical family. His father lived in
Vermont
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. In the 1990s Anders moved briefly to Portland, Oregon. He spent some time in North Carolina where he lived with Matt Brown, founder of Bladen County Records, and worked in a bar.
He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly.
In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline.
Parker lived for some time in New York City. In 2008 he moved to Burlington, Vermont, where he lived with his wife as of 2014.
In 2016 he had been living in the town of
Alert, Nunavut
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world, ("Twice a year, the military resupply Alert, the world's northernmost settlement.") on Ellesmere Island (Queen Elizabeth Island ...
in the Canadian
Arctic
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– the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 508 miles from the
North Pole
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.
Discography
Anders Parker
*''There's A Blue Bird In My Heart'' (2014)
*''
New Multitudes
''New Multitudes'' is a Woody Guthrie tribute album performed by Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Jim James to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Guthrie's birth, released through Rounder Records on February 28, 2012. The project w ...
'' (with
Jay Farrar
Jay Farrar (born December 26, 1966) is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis. A member of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his establis ...
,
Will Johnson, and
Yim Yames
James Edward Olliges Jr. (born April 27, 1978), professionally known as Jim James or Yim Yames, is an American vocalist, guitarist, producer, and primary songwriter of the rock band My Morning Jacket. He has also released several solo albums.
...
) (2012)
* ''Cross Latitudes'' (2010)
* ''Skyscraper Crow'' (double CD) (2009)
* ''14th & Division'' (live) (2007)
* ''Anders Parker'' (2006)
* ''The Wounded Astronaut'' (EP) (2005)
* ''Tell It to the Dust'' (2004)
Gob Iron (with Jay Farrar)
* ''Death Songs for the Living'' (2006)
Varnaline
* ''Songs in a Northern Key'' (2001)
* ''Sweet Life'' (1998)
* ''A Shot and a Beer'' (EP) (1997)
* ''Varnaline'' (1997)
* ''
Man of Sin
The man of sin ( el, ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ''ho anthrōpos tēs hamartias'') or man of lawlessness, (, ''anomias'') is a figure referred to in the Christian Bible in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. He is usuall ...
'' (1996)
Space Needle
* ''The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle'' (1997)
* ''Recordings'' 1994–1997 (compilation) (2006)
References
External links
*
Varnaline.com, an archive from the Varnaline daysGobIron.net, the official Gob Iron website
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American alternative country singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American country singer-songwriters
Gob Iron members