Eric Anders

Eric Anders is an American singer-songwriter based in California.

Music career Anders released his first album in 2003, at the age of 39. Not at One was produced by Anders and Richard Barron. Anders collaborated on the songwriting with Mark O'Bitz and Benny Bohm. In 2004, Anders released the EP Songs For Wayward Days in protest of what Anders believed to be the illegitimate administration of George W. Bush.

In 2005 Anders released his second album, More Regrets, produced by Grammy-winning guitarist, Randy Ray Mitchell. His third album, Tethered to the Ground, was released in 2006 and was produced by Matthew Emerson Brown. Anders' first releases were all mixed by Jeff Peters. —as well as referencing the date of the 9/11 Attacks, another event that Anders sees as catastrophic to the U.S.

In 2018, Anders released his first album as a duo with guitarist-composer Mark O'Bitz, Of All These Things.

After Of All These Things, the duo would release eight albums, six EPs, and seven singles.

Anders and O'Bitz released the single, "Matterbloomlight", in 2018 and it would be the inspiration for the duo's 2020 album American Bardo, created as an ode to the novel Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. in December 2020--and then their album Sirens Go By in February 2021. These releases are the first and second installments of their multi-release collection that is based around the theme of "music in the time of the coronavirus," which also includes the 2021 albums, Stuck Inside and Variant Blues.

Anders, O'Bitz, and Butler worked with Basque artist Joseba Elorza (Greenday) on the critically acclaimed "Searise" climate change music video.

Anders, O'Bitz, and Butler continued producing work that would mix Americana, rock, and folk with their albums The Loss We've Won (2022), So Far Gone (2022), Answers Belie (2023), and their EPs The Unencumbered Ones (2023) and Contrapasso (2024).

Their dual EP project, Bardo Hauntings (2022), were all remixes of the twelve American Bardo songs: six by Steven Jess Borth II and six by Mike Butler.

Discography Albums Not at One (2003) More Regrets (2005) Tethered to the Ground (2006) Big World Abide (2016) Eleven Nine (2017) Of All These Things (2018) with Mark O'Bitz Ghosts to Ancestors (2019) with Mark O'Bitz American Bardo (2020) with Mark O'Bitz Sirens Go By (2021) with Mark O'Bitz Variant Blues (2021) with Mark O'Bitz Stuck Inside (2021) with Mark O'Bitz Variant Blues (2021) with Mark O'Bitz The Loss We've Won (2021) with Mark O'Bitz So Far Gone (2021) with Mark O'Bitz Answers Belie (2021) with Mark O'Bitz

EPs Songs For Wayward Days (2004) Remains in Me (2011) This Mortal Farce (2020) with Mark O'Bitz Bardo Hauntings: Borth Remixes (2022) with Mark O'Bitz Bardo Hauntings: Butler Remixes (2022) with Mark O'Bitz The Unencumbered Ones (2023) with Mark O'Bitz Contrapasso (2024) with Mark O'Bitz

Singles Matterbloomlight (2018) with Mark O'Bitz Careful Now My Son (2020) with Mark O'Bitz Searise (2021) with Mark O'Bitz True September Songs (2021) with Mark O'Bitz One Life (2022) with Mark O'Bitz Simple Love (2023) with Mark O'Bitz Bryter Now: A Tribute to Nick Drake (2023) with Mark O'Bitz