About
Executive Summary
There’s this guy named Eric Crugnale. You can call him Crug-nally, or Cruñale or possibly even Crug-nail, but not Crug-a-nagel. Anyway, he writes songs. He can also sing and play the guitar. He knows how to do other stuff too, but that’s a topic for another bio. Back in the day, he was in a band named The Rockefellers where he wrote songs, played guitar and sang as those were the things he’d be most likely to do in a band. They had some fun, made some records, played some shows, exchanged some moving parts and eventually disbanded with Eric deciding to chill out for a few years. But the lore of the sea beckoned him back, and he eventually decided to build a home studio, and through some other fortuitous events, found himself connected with some great musicians that could tolerate him and help him realize some of his more recent musical inspirations. This lead to his first solo release, Carol Was Here in late 2010. The album received rave reviews on the Power Pop circuit making several “best of” lists for the year, earning a respectable amount of radio play, drawing songwriter comparisons to Bacharach, McCartney and Wilson and generating enough sales to pay for the paper this bio is written on. The digital-only release Under the Cushions followed in 2012. Eric eventually returned to the studio to work on the follow up album, the latest and greatest Time Kills. If you don’t blink too frequently, you may catch him around NY performing his own songs, making a guest appearance at a NYRMA event, playing guitar in a friend's band or picking up his dry cleaning on Saturday mornings.