Erik Balkey



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Click to enlargeCustom Songs


The BRAND NEW CD from Erik!



Play Crazy Love
Play She Does
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Songs on this album are:
1 Crazy Love
2 She Does
3 Never Give Up On Chasing Love
4 I Will Wait For You
5 Looking At The Grass From The Green Side
6 I Will Always Be Here For You
7 Anna Giulia
8 My Best Man
9 She's A Ripple
10 My Laura Found Someone
11 With All OF My Heart
12 New Orleans Train
13 Forever Hold My Son
14 My Father's Son
15 Heart Of An Angel



For more information about this CD, contact Erik directly through his website at ErikBalkey.com

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Click to enlargeFor the Ladies






Play Our Mobile Home
Play Flowers
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Songs on this album are:
1. Love, It Ain't Easy
2. We're Only Friends
3. Waiting for My Heart to Come On
4. Crazy in Love
5. Our Mobile Home
6. The Signal's Still Strong
7. My Better Half
8. A Year with You
9. Nowhere to be Found
10. Flowers
11. The Underdog
12. Written Just for Me



For more information about this CD, contact Erik directly through his website at ErikBalkey.com

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Click to enlargeDeadpan Alley
And the hits just keep on comin' with Erik's newest release containing 10 beautiful new originals and two well chosen covers.

Play Goodnight Lily
Play So I Am To You
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Songs on this album are:
1. So I Am To You
2. She Sleeps
3. Maria
4. Goodnight Lily
5. Nowhere Fast
6. I'm Lonely Tonigh
7. Birches
8. Have Mercy On The Fallen Soul
9. New Olde Town
10. Come Back Home
11. Angel Says To Me
12. The Last Laugh
13. Bonus Track - River City Folk (33 minutes LIVE)



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Click to enlargeMy Sacred Heart






Play What Good Am I
Play If God Is An Apple
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Songs on this album are:
1. What Good Am I
2. If God Is An Apple
3. From New Jersey
4. Eyes Wide Open
5. If A Song Could Save Your Soul
6. My Own Reason Why
7. Homeward Bound
8. Carnival For The Church Of The Sacred Heart
9. House Of Cards
10. Second Place
11. He's My Dad
12. Peace Come Christmas Day



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Click to enlargeSanctuary Road






Play In Your Silence
Play Leaves Are Gone
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Songs on this album are:
1. In Your Silence
2. Always One More Round
3. Winter When She Goes
4. Someone To Call
5. To Make You Feel My Love
6. Leaves Are Gone
7. Something In the Air/It's Not on the Air
8. Land of the Lonely
9. Aunt Sue's Beach
10. Things Are Never Really What They Seem
11. What Would You Do? (live)
12. Where Does Our Love? (live) Go
13. Introduction (live)
14. Someone to Call (live)
15. Songs - Fiction, Truth (live)
16. Like Billy the Kid (live)
17. My Manager (live)
18. Cut 'Em Down (live)
19. Dedication (live)
20. God's Poet Now (live)



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Click to enlargeWhile the Paint Dries






Play Give Love, Amen
Play Silent Night
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Songs on this album are:
1. Give Love, Amen
2. Like Billy the Kid
3. Baseball In MY Blood
4. Silent Night
5. Time To Go
6. God's Poet Now
7. How Does This Poem End
8. Chase My Blues Away
9. We're Only Firends
10. Can I Make a Home
11. Livin' in Lesserville
12. Someone To Call
13. Silent Night (acoustic - bonus track)



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Click to enlargeNegotiations & Compromise






Play Two Years
Play Negotiations & Compromise
Play A Dream I Had
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Songs on this album are:
1. Afternoon on Galen Street
2. Two Years
3. Miles Roll
4. Negotiations & Compromise
5. Amazing Grace
6. I Quit
7. Take Me Back
8. A Dream I Had
9. Dark Eyes
10. Still Here
11. Are You as Lonely
12. Imagine



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Click to enlargeGod's Poet Now






Play God's Poet Now
Play Give Love, Amen
Play House of Cards
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Songs on this album are:
1. God's Poet Now
2. No Choice
3. Virginia
4. Give Love, Amen
5. A Dream I Had (Intro)
6. A Dream I Had
7. House of Cards
8. Walking Away from Caroline



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Click to enlargeMission Street Project - Liberty Tree (Songs From The Kitchen Table)
The debut release, "Liberty Tree," will be available soon! What we have to offer you right now is a 5 song sampler from this remarkable release featuring Erik Balkey with Laurie MacAllister and Duke Levine.

"Mission Street Project" is a musical side project of songwriter Erik Balkey with the intention to preserve and further the tradition of songs that are written on topics of social relevance. In 2005, Balkey made it his mission to collaborate and collect songs and stories for this project with the help of American touring songwriters. The results of his efforts are recorded on “Liberty Tree,” the 18-song debut album of the Project.

“Liberty Tree” is the Volume 1 in a new series called “Songs From The American Kitchen Table” and covers topics including the war, immigrant workers, the death penalty, homelessness, family farms and boom towns as well as family, American hospitality and kindness. Co-writers on this first effort include Jonathan Byrd (NC), Ryder Daniels (NH), Freebo (CA), David Holtzclaw (NC), Johnsmith (WI), Laurie MacAllister (NJ), Bonnie Lee Panda (CT) and Pat Wictor (NY). Also featured are songs by Dave Carter, Johnny Cash and John Fogerty.

Play Should I Go Wordless
Play I Love My Country
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Songs on this album are:
1. Should I Go Wordless
2. Armageddon
3. I Oughta Get A Gun
4. Cut 'Em Down
5. Deja Vu(All Over Again)
6. My Two Sons
7. Unionville
8. Sanctuary Road
9. You Can Stay Here
10. When I Die (DOn't Cry For Me)
11. I Love My Country
12. Man In Black
13. West Memphis Three
14. Hard Road
15. Look For The Light
16. Gun Metal Eyes
17. How Come I Roam
18. Christmastime On Mission Street



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Click to enlargeMission Street Project - Make Levees (Songs From The Kitchen Table Vol 2)





Play My America Now
Play Call Me Home
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Songs on this album are:
1 My America - Anne Hills
2 Do They Know About Me - David Roth
3 Make Levees Not War - Pat Wictor
4 Atticus Taught Me - Cary Cooper
5 Heroes Are Falling - Eric Hansen
6 Call Me Home - Beth Wood
7 How To Talk To A Republican - Tom Kimmel
8 Tonight He's Gonna Die - Chris Rosser
9 Will You Ever Come Home - Victoria Vox
10 Trail of Tears - Tom Prasada-Rao
11 When The War Is Won - Laurie MacAllister
12 There's A Place - Andy Fox
13 A Patriot's Act - Anne Feeney
14 Our Radio - Dave Potts
15 The Mine - Michelle Dalziel
16 Beneath Our Christmas Tree - Bonnie Lee Panda
17 Cut 'em Down - John M.
18 Born in the USA - Erik Balkey



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More about Erik Balkey

Erik Balkey is a performing songwriter based out of Philadelphia, PA. He began songwriting as part of the Red Bank, NJ music scene in 1994 before a four-year stint in New York City. Among the songwriters in the city, Balkey listened and learned as an active volunteer and performer at the now-defunct Fast Folk Cafe.

Gathering from his experiences and from his work on songwriting craft, Balkey wrote and recorded his debut album, "Negotiations & Compromise," in 2001. Michael Tearson of SingOut! Magazine wrote, "These songs are literate, exacting portraits in amber... Nicely played and beautifully recorded, this is a very rewarding album." In July 2003, Bakey released a seven-song EP,"God's Poet Now," as a benefit project for the Dave Carter Memorial Fund. Buddy Mondlock says of this collection of songs, "heartfelt songs about real emotions, gracefully portrayed."



In 2003, Balkey earned finalist honors at Wildflower Songwriter Contest (TX), the Mountain Stage NewSong Festival Songwriting Contest (WV), and the Unisong Song Contest. Cuts from Balkey's recordings have been played by over one hundred radio deejays worldwide including Gene Shay on WXPN (Philadelphia), Marilyn Rea Beyer on WUMB (Boston), Rich Warren on WFMT (Chicago, IL) and John Platt at WFUV (New York City). Both albums charted Top 40 for airplay by "FolkDJ," and the song "God's Poet Now" was No. 6 for airplay in July 2003.

Balkey is a full-time touring songwriter with over 200 appearances a year. He has stopped at such reputable venues as the Tin Angel (Philadelphia), the Point (Bryn Mawr, PA), Bluebird Cafe (Nashville, TN), Six String Cafe (Cary, NC), Postcrypt Coffeehouse (New York City), Club Passim (Cambridge, MA), Evening Muse (Charlotte, NC), Jammin Java (Vienna, VA) and Makor (New York City).

Balkey is a member of the Folk Alliance and BMI. He writes the "Songwriter's Tour Guide." He has held volunteer positions with the Fast Folk Cafe (NYC), Music Among Friends (Hoboken, NJ), the Philadelphia Songwriters Alliance, and Nameless Coffeehouse (Cambridge, MA)

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