Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Erik Kristiansen originally hails from Northern Louisiana. In 1993 he moved to New York City armed with a rocking chair and a Telecaster,  and began backing singer-songwriters in bars and coffeehouses in the East Village. He played with several bands including snotty punks Los Dudes,  recording an album with them in 1996 before falling in with the thriving “roots rock” scene of the late-‘90s. Kristiansen has toured and recorded with renowned alt. country bands The Backsliders (Southern Lines, 1999),  The Dark Horses (Come Along, 2002) and formed a side project with Ryan Adams in 1999 which gave birth to some of the material on Adam’s breakthrough album “Rock ‘n Roll”