Eric Holm by Eric Holm

Eric Holm grew up in South Dakota and country music was too close for comfort. He liked city-people stuff like show-tunes & punk rock. But after the election of ’16 (that heartbreaker), he quit cutting his hair, picked up his guitar, and wrote ‘Dolly & Jesus.’

He makes radical queer country music — a love song about polyamory sits alongside a story-song about the sad, slow decline of the Republican Party. Holm writes about maintaining ethical codes in a frightening age, the way the right-wing has coopted Jesus for nefarious purposes, the need for an American truth & reconciliation movement, and queer kids in red states. With a brilliant group of music-makers, he recorded the ten original songs at John Epperly’s studio in Brooklyn, Metropolitan Sound.

Inspired by Willie Nelson, Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, Sturgill Simpson, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, Brandi Carlile, The Byrds, The Band, and Joni Mitchell.

radical queer country music // Houston via South Dakota // music for very young people as Teacher Eric // inventor of Tomato Christmas

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