Anders Parker

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Anders Parker
OriginUnited States
Occupation(s)Musician
Labels
  • Munich
  • Baryon
  • Bladen County
  • Rounder
  • Skycap
  • Recorded & Freed
  • Sunset Club

Anders Keith Parker [1] is an American singer-songwriter, guitar player, singer and multi-instrumentalist with a career spanning two decades. [2] [3] He has performed and recorded as a solo artist and as a key member in bands such as Varnaline and Space Needle. Parker has been involved in various collaborations over the years including Gob Iron with Jay Farrar.

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Biography

Anders Parker is a first-generation Swedish American. [4] He was born circa 1970 and grew up in Upstate New York, in the Hudson Valley, in a musical family. His father lived in Vermont. 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. [4] He then moved back up north with his one-eyed dog Oly. [4] In 1996 he performed at the NXNE Festival in Toronto, and later he performed and recorded with the band Varnaline. [5]

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. [4] [6] [7] In 2016 he had been living in the town of Alert, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic – the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 508 miles from the North Pole. [8]

Career

In 2004, Parker released his Tell It to the Dust album on the Baryon label. [9]

Parker's mini-album / EP The Wounded Astronaut was released in March 2005. [10]

In 2006 / 2007, Anders Parker's self-titled album was released on Baryon BYN-006. [11] [12]

Discography

Anders Parker

Gob Iron (with Jay Farrar)

Varnaline

Space Needle

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  9. Tucson Weekly, July 21, 2005 - Tell It to the Ears
    Here's Anders Parker's gimmick: He seems incapable of making bad music By Stephen Seigel
  10. Nightflight - Alan Bangs‘ Nightflight, 206 Alle Playlists von Alan Bangs‘ Nightflight bei DRadio Wissen von März 2010 – Dezember 2013, 24. Anders Parker – The Wounded Astronaut, 6:08, Album: “The Wounded Astronaut”, Release Date: 22. März 2005, Label: Baryon Records
  11. Pop Matters, 26 November 2006 - ANDERS PARKER: ANDERS PARKER By Michael Metivier
  12. Discogs - Anders Parker – Anders Parker
  13. "Fresh Noise: New Multitudes Full Album Stream". Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-02-21.