＊「音樂大玩童」傑森瑪耶茲、共和世代、Missy Higgins、Jack’s Mannequin共同指定之暖場歌手！＊創iTunes史上獨立歌手最高專輯名次(#5)、空降Billboard新進藝人專輯榜冠軍！＊八卦部落格作家Perez Hilton力挺歌手、名列VH1不可不知年度歌手！Eric Hutchinson，生于华盛顿，有着可爱清秀的外表，毕业于波士顿只开设传播艺术领域课程的Emerson College学院，他的名字默默无名，但从他自己发行的“Sounds Like This”首张专辑开始，瞬间成了许多人google的对象。 而“Sounds Like This”这张好唱片如果没有知名部落格作家Perez Hilton这位幕后推手的话，也许就这样销声匿迹了。命运真的是很难预料，Eric的高中好友在偶然的机会下将Eric的MySpace网站传给了 Perez Hilton，Perez喜欢到在他每天有上千人浏览的部落格中推荐Eric的音乐。啪!中奖!这张专辑短短时间内，就在iTunes稳坐专辑榜第五名的位置，是iTunes史上由独立歌手拿下的最高专辑名次，并空降Billboard新进艺人专辑榜冠军，成为街头巷尾讨论、各传媒报导的对象，华盛顿日报与Entertainment Weekly分别以：“当Eric在吉他与琴键间上挥洒他的才华、温柔轻哼着激烈的爱恋与日常生活中内心斗争的同时，不可否认的，Eric拥有相当强大的音乐魅力”与“给人流行乐新体验， Eric创造多首顺畅入耳的好音乐”等好评为此专辑增色不少，更是击败Duffy、Estelle、Adele等歌手，列入VH1十大年度不可不知新进歌手第三名！ 这张专辑的两位制作人，一位是Will Golden(Joe Purdy)，另一位是曾为大名鼎鼎的Radiohead制作唱片的Paul Kolderie，他们放纵Eric自由发展，而他带来的透明纯粹的音乐风格，似乎是他毫不费劲就创造出来的，感情自然地流露而出，也常被比喻拥有类似 Stevie Wonder、杰森玛耶兹、Ben Folds等人的那种发自内心将音乐散发的天生能力。而在2008年，华纳签下Eric Hutchinson，再次发行“Sounds Like This”，要已经记起他的人更爱他、要还没记起他的人听了他音乐忘不了他！轻盈的钢琴声飞扬在“OK, It’s Alright With Me”作为开场；“You Don’t Have To Believe Me”如临游乐场般欢乐的快活心情；人人都是这世界上食物链中的一环，以爵士韵律的琴键为基底，“Food Chain”Eric告诉你不管遭逢何事，都是世界上重要的一个角色；用喇叭制造出ska的舒适摆动，忍不住让人一起点点头抖抖肩，最享乐主义的 “Rock & Roll”让你想做啥就做啥，人生就是要开开心心的嘛＠Eric一下飙高音，一会儿运用沙哑喉音，他丰富的音域与结合横跨摇滚、民谣、流行、灵魂乐的音乐，真的会让你忘不了Eric Hutchinson这号人物by Stewart MasonFew 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 an online 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 Brothers-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, online 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 on iTunes, peaking at number seven in September 2007.