About
Hailing from Rockville, Maryland and calling Denver, Colorado home, Eric Martinez is a guitarist in the rock/jam band world and a fixture of the local Denver Music Scene.
Having been a member of multiple touring acts over the years, Eric has earned a reputation as a hired gun and polished music professional. Whether he’s onstage or in the studio, Eric’s precision and laser focus elevates most any act or project. His musical acumen and his demand for perfection keeps him high on people’s lists. In short, Eric is a musician’s musician; a player’s player; an artist’s artist.
Eric’s diverse range of talents allows him to acclimate to most any musical setting. Whether engineering and producing a bluegrass track for Jojo Herrmann (Widespread Panic) in his studio or shredding solos on stage with Portland’s Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, Eric is renowned for his ability to instantly add energy and prowess to the stage.
However, it’s his songwriting on his newest solo effort El Sol out now plus his collaborations with other musicians like John "Jojo" Hermann, Jerry Joseph, Daniel Hutchens, Todd Nance, Eric Carter, Josh Stack, and Tori Pater that has set him apart from other guitar slingers. Eric sings, writes, produces, engineers and plays lead. His instincts for the instrument have been honed by his professionalism, work ethic, and standing alongside the best of the best, year after year. He’s not limited by tone or genre, scene or style. He's in for it all!.
El Sol, the eighth album by Denver based musician Eric Martinez was tentatively called Three Chords & The Truth since that's what it is at it's heart. He took his songs back to a time honored tradition of cowboy chords, a hook, and a chorus you want to sing along too and wrapped it up with searing guitars and a kick ass band. Eric, Andrew Clapp, Paul "Dr. Poz" Cohen, Ethan Ice, Micah Munro, and Mike Davidov lead you through songs of love, death, loneliness, and heartbreak but in the end you are left smiling. The sun always rises!
Written up in Rolling Stone for his work with Bloodkin, invited onstage with touring behemoths Widespread Panic, and a fulcrum of the local Denver music scene, Martinez is one of the most well respected artists in the area.
"The spike and slash of Carter and Eric Martinez’s guitars in “Wait Forever” suggest Keith Richards and Ron Wood — armed with Civil War bayonets." -David Fricke, Rolling Stone
