Independent Americana/Folk/Rock guitarist, singer and songwriter from Chicago
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Solo show at scenic Rams Riverhouse on the Mighty Mississippi River!
Ernie Hendrickson Band - 6-9 PM Outside on the dock. This event is free, all ages, and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but are available. Lawn chairs are welcome, outside food and drink is not welcome
For Ernie Hendrickson, the process of writing and recording his new album, Roll On, has been bound up in the changes he’s gone through as an acclaimed musician who is a perceptive chronicler of life in America, as a husband and father, and as an artist who remains open to the challenges and rewards that living this ever-so-complex American life can bring. What Roll On does so superbly well is bring life-affirming humor, wisdom, and even doubt, to the stories Ernie tells throughout the record’s thirteen songs.
Ernie’s latest songs were written over a period that stretches from the release of his last album, 2013‘s One for the Dreamers, to late 2018, when he began recording Roll On with producer Brian Deck at Narwhal Music Studios in Bucktown, Chicago. Ernie Hendrickson’s journey from recording One for the Dreamers in Nashville–home of country music, Americana, and big dreams–to finishing Roll On on his home turf of Midwest, U.S.A., found him walking a path of self-affirmation and hard work that makes his new music his richest and most universal to date. In classic singer-songwriter fashion, Ernie writes about what he sees and feels, but Roll On is a record that speaks to the human condition in ways that transcend time and place.
Recorded Live December 22nd, 2023 at Legendary Cafe Carpe in Ft. Atkinson, WI! I’ve been wanting to put out a live recording for a while, for many reasons. First and foremost – there is an energy and magic to playing live music in front of an audience that doesn’t exist in the studio. Also there
Monday Night Live From The Underground, Ernie’s pandemic era livestream series, has come to an end, but you can still watch and listen to the original broadcasts.
The “Be As One” music video project began as a collaboration between Ernie and Jake Vohs, a longtime friend and former Seed Band keyboardist (Ernie’s band throughout the mid-late nineties and early 2000’s).
“After All Of This Is Over” – Here is a new song written and recorded at the home studio during covid-19 quarantine. I am deeply moved at the thought that we could make something better out of this ordeal.
Mike O’Cull, over at Indie Band Guru, reviewed Ernie’s new album recently. Here’s what he had to say.
“Americana singer/songwriter/guitarist Ernie Hendrickson delivers a dose of soft-spoken genius to the world with his latest album Roll On. Released on September 24th, 2019 on LoHi Records, Roll On is a set of original roots-inflected songs that aim to address some very current issues in American life, specifically the senses of alienation and commercialization that are overwhelming a great many of our citizens at this very moment. Doing this is an amazingly tricky balancing act between music born of the past and stories told about the present and most songwriters struggle to do it in a convincing way. Hendrickson, however, pulls it off like a boss and displays an innate knack for combining character, setting, and meaning.”
Ernie Hendrickson’s new album, Roll On, was released in September 2019 on LoHi Records. Produced by Brian Deck in Chicago with a stellar roster of studio musicians, Roll On features thirteen new songs by the acclaimed American songwriter.
Six years after releasing his 2013 Nashville-recorded album One for the Dreamers, Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist Ernie Hendrickson returns to his Chicago home with Roll On, his most mature, observant and musically wide ranging collection.
CHICAGO–It was six years ago that Ernie Hendrickson, who was born in the Wisconsin region known as the Driftless Area and raised in Illinois, released his last album, One for the Dreamers. Hendrickson, who recorded One for the Dreamers in the fabled city of Nashville with producer Chad Cromwell and a cast of musicians that included legendary Willie Nelson harmonica wizard Mickey Raphael and harmony singer Lera Lynn, took away the myriad lessons of Music City, and the record displayed his songwriting savvy, guitar acumen and feel for the American language.
Ernie Hendrickson Roll On Press Release
Ernie Hendrickson Roll On Bio
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