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Eddie From Ohio — Number Six Driver
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kcar
Posted: May 31, 2012 - 22:52
 
 losthiker wrote:
Sounds to me like an Indigo Girl solo effort.
 
Was about to say as much...don't hate Indigo Girls but they always sound so earnest and sincere to the point of passing out. 

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Apr 30, 2012 - 05:23
 
Interesting track ...

Has a familiar feel to it.  Not sure why.



losthiker
(Moya)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 11:51
 
Sounds to me like an Indigo Girl solo effort.

Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 08:28
 
 DaveInVA wrote:
Funny name as the band is actually from Northern Virginia.. Good tune though!

 
The guys all went to JMU and Julie went to Tech. It's the drummer's (Eddie) nickname. They're great to see live. Just saw them last weekend in Charlottesville.


skyguy
(CO)
Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 08:26
 
Geez it's anice little pop tune you can't listen to Duke Ellington ALL the time solid 5

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 08:23
 
Funny name as the band is actually from Northern Virginia.. Good tune though!


SmackDaddy
(San Diego)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 14:52
 
any relation to EdfromOhio from Firehose?

terrapin52
(Terrapin Station, SC)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 14:47
 
pretentious, presumptuous, parochial, pedestrian.

Decoy
(Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 08:45
 
 lemmoth wrote:
The singer's phrasing is sooooo Ani DiFranco.  Of course the lyrics and everything else is completely different.
 
came in to say the same thing.

  rabbi_phil wrote:

and you're exactly right. this is just Radio Playtime. there's nothing riding on any of this. personally,i truly enjoy the 'outthere' stuff. from stingray to romeotuma to the nottingham jury it's all fun to read. when they hang it out-there you get what they really feel about a song, an artist, or whatever and they don't care about (and shouldn't) the feedback. that kind of honesty is refreshing in an over pc'd world. now,attacking someone personally(foul language,something mean) seems to be poor form,but this is an uncensored format and you just hope other listeners will come to the rescue, but really you have to take all this with a grain of salt. all thought doesn't have to be"useful' lenghthy existential over-analysis,and if you don't like something just say so. i don't know if  i could take it if all i read was "i love it,i love it,i love it'from everyone and although i do like this song  i found the 'expired aerosol cheese' thing very funny. being told how to respond or what format to follow is at best controlling and at worst an odd form of convoluted censorship. now,as someone else here has said  'i'll get me hat'
  
well stated, and very true.  Difference of opinions make the horse races.


rage
Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 15:45
 
Do songs ever get removed from an RP playlist for consistently low ratings?  Just curious.  For example, if they receive more than say ten ratings below 4.  Don't mean this one per se,...but now that we're on the subject perhaps we could remove this from the R....?

{#Angel} 


DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: May 18, 2011 - 09:10
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
We have to be asked to make comments? They have to be useful? You can't express disdain? Man, I've been doin' it all wrong!

BTW, this song is the aural equivalent of expired aerosol cheese (of course, that's just my opinion).
 
and you're exactly right. this is just Radio Playtime. there's nothing riding on any of this. personally,i truly enjoy the 'outthere' stuff. from stingray to romeotuma to the nottingham jury it's all fun to read. when they hang it out-there you get what they really feel about a song, an artist, or whatever and they don't care about (and shouldn't) the feedback. that kind of honesty is refreshing in an over pc'd world. now,attacking someone personally(foul language,something mean) seems to be poor form,but this is an uncensored format and you just hope other listeners will come to the rescue, but really you have to take all this with a grain of salt. all thought doesn't have to be"useful' lenghthy existential over-analysis,and if you don't like something just say so. i don't know if  i could take it if all i read was "i love it,i love it,i love it'from everyone and although i do like this song  i found the 'expired aerosol cheese' thing very funny. being told how to respond or what format to follow is at best controlling and at worst an odd form of convoluted censorship. now,as someone else here has said  'i'll get me hat'



jessfine
(exiled to Wisconsin)
Posted: May 18, 2011 - 08:44
 
Insipid!  I logged in just to give this a low score.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: May 18, 2011 - 08:44
 
The singer's phrasing is sooooo Ani DiFranco.  Of course the lyrics and everything else is completely different.

Canoe52
(Normal, IL)
Posted: May 18, 2011 - 08:42
 
Hey it's Eddie from Ohio! Saw them many times at the Blue Moon Coffeehouse in Bloomington, IL

Love them!  {#Dancingbanana}

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Mar 16, 2011 - 07:57
 
boring. . .

jpfueler
(Burleson Texas, (South o' Ft Worth))
Posted: Feb 12, 2011 - 23:22
 
Bit too New Countryish and not enough alt in there for my tastes, and her voice doesn't lift it out of not really liking it all that much.

AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Jan 12, 2011 - 16:49
 
 Stefen wrote:
There's always a cold wind blowing in Wyoming.  Just ask Scott.
 
A-L-W-A-Y-S!!  So far it is taking more than three years to get used to.
Eddie might be from Ohio but she has been through Wyoming.

drictor
(Victor, ID)
Posted: Jan 12, 2011 - 16:47
 
There is a cold wind blowing here in Wyoming...

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Dec 12, 2010 - 05:32
 
paulmack wrote:
Thank you for echoing my exact thoughts. To tiggers and all who trash - please ask yourself, "In what way are my unasked for opinions helpful or productive?" If you have an actual answer to that question that is not "oh - they're not", then you need to think a whole lot more (of course, that's just my opinion).
We have to be asked to make comments? They have to be useful? You can't express disdain? Man, I've been doin' it all wrong!

BTW, this song is the aural equivalent of expired aerosol cheese (of course, that's just my opinion).

Happy_Monday
Posted: Nov 10, 2010 - 10:16
 
Ani ??

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 22:41
 
 fredriley wrote:
Is this Ani Di Franco in disguise? It's about as interesting... {#Sleep}
 
Agree with the concept but absolutely not the sentiment.  Defo sounds like Ani but that is such a very very very very very good thing.

BKardon
(Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison)
Posted: May 03, 2010 - 12:14
 
I wonder if he knows Driver 8.

Tana
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: May 03, 2010 - 12:09
 
I went to see Eddie From Ohio several times around 1997, around the same time I saw Ani once. So I was listening to them at the same time. Maybe I'm dense, but it never occurred to me that Julie Murphy and Ani were similar. Still doesn't. Both energetic but different energies. Maybe you have to see them.

Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: May 03, 2010 - 12:07
 
There's always a cold wind blowing in Wyoming.  Just ask Scott.

gregr79
(If you chooose not to decide you still have made a choice)
Posted: May 03, 2010 - 12:07
 
Me Oh My Oh stuck here in Ohio

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 01, 2010 - 05:11
 
Is this Ani Di Franco in disguise? It's about as interesting... {#Sleep}

h8rhater
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 12:10
 
 slickdh wrote:


I gotta tell ya.... I saw these guys live in Northern VA last November..... great harmonies BUT for someone who doesnt know every song by heart.... all I could muster was an 'eh'....  "Blast" is a stretch for what I saw and heard.  They may keep their following from their hometown, but they've alientated a potential newcomer. 

Rating: 2 - I just dont get it.

{#Snooty}{#Stupid}
 
Guess they should have played covers to keep from "alienating" the un-initiated.  If you need bands you've never seen to play songs you know, go to a karaoke show. 


Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, New Joisey)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 12:05
 
AphidA wrote:
I'm from Virginia and I hate this song.

This was a local band that I'm glad is (apparently) no longer around.


Really?  I have seen them 3 or 4 times and enjoyed them.  Sorry to hear about them being no more.


AphidA
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:48
 
I'm from Virginia and I hate this song.

This was a local band that I'm glad is (apparently) no longer around.


paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:36
 
 crockydile wrote:

?? I assume she is an Ani fan. If not, someone needs to give her the bad news...{#Cry}
 

crocky: EFO have been in existence since 1991, ~ 1 year after Ani's first CD - on her own label. EFO has released 9 CDs beginning in 1992, all of which I have heard at least some of. To me, they are quite distinctive. I agree that there is some similarity for this song - but I had never thought of the two in the same thought until I heard this one again today. I suspect that if you ever hear a few others by EFO you probably would agree with me that the similarity here is not typical.

okrit13
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:27
 
I could have sworn this was Ani...

paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:27
 
 tkosh wrote:


A toothache is painful.  A song that is beautiful to many, but is not to you, is just what it is.  That whole CD is at different times entertaining, soothing, and energizing to me.  You might want to buy something else, but I really like it a lot.
 

Thank you for echoing my exact thoughts. To tiggers and all who trash - please ask yourself, "In what way are my unasked for opinions helpful or productive?" If you have an actual answer to that question that is not "oh - they're not", then you need to think a whole lot more (of course, that's just my opinion).


JoBo
(California)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:26
 
Nice to hear this group on RP .... more Eddie From Ohio, please? 

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:25
 
I was about to say I usually don't like Ani DiFranco, but I like this.  Never mind.


crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:25
 
 musiclife wrote:


sort of
 
?? I assume she is an Ani fan. If not, someone needs to give her the bad news...{#Cry}



sarahbean26
(waukegan,IL)
Posted: Aug 24, 2009 - 10:25
 
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!{#Puke}

tkosh
Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 20:30
 
 tiggers wrote:
Painful!
 

A toothache is painful.  A song that is beautiful to many, but is not to you, is just what it is.  That whole CD is at different times entertaining, soothing, and energizing to me.  You might want to buy something else, but I really like it a lot.

musiclife
(Texas)
Posted: May 21, 2009 - 07:38
 
 lovemydog wrote:


I actually find it hard to believe that it isn't!
 

sort of

lovemydog
Posted: May 21, 2009 - 07:29
 
 agnes wrote:
Does anyone else thing she sounds like Ani DiFranco?
 

I actually find it hard to believe that it isn't!

lmic
(Narrow Minded Couch Potato)
Posted: Apr 19, 2009 - 16:06
 
 Roverfish wrote:
You mean this ISN'T Ani Difranco? Wow.
  I can't believe it either...uncanny!

conglif
Posted: Apr 19, 2009 - 16:05
 
Love it.

But I can see how it could be a little understated for some tastes, though.

But that's primarily why I like it.

The obligatory "whiz-bang" factor gets old sometimes.

slickdh
(Lost in the world)
Posted: Feb 15, 2009 - 14:56
 
 wally42 wrote:

Sounds Like Eddie From Ohio to me, I think they have a pretty singular sound. Live, they are a blast! The most amazing four part harmonies I've ever heard. The only four part harmonies I've ever heard that don't sound like a Barber Shop Quartet. 10 ...really... Play more Eddie!!You'll See
 

I gotta tell ya.... I saw these guys live in Northern VA last November..... great harmonies BUT for someone who doesnt know every song by heart.... all I could muster was an 'eh'....  "Blast" is a stretch for what I saw and heard.  They may keep their following from their hometown, but they've alientated a potential newcomer. 

Rating: 2 - I just dont get it.

{#Snooty}{#Stupid}



wallytune
Posted: Jan 14, 2009 - 21:52
 

I discovered  EFO about a tear ago and wondered why they weren't more well known. This is the first time I've heard them on RP
and I say "Thanx Bill !"



almafi
Posted: Nov 12, 2008 - 18:03
 
"Eddie from Ohio" is the worst band name I've heard in awhile.  It would be tolerable if it was a one-man band-literally an Eddie from Ohio.  Better Than Ezra, Eric's Trip, Jimmy Eat World....can anyone else name any other horrible band names that have a name in them. 

stewliscious
(northGA)
Posted: Sep 10, 2008 - 12:56
 
Best song (next to Tommy the Cannexican) on a great album.  More EFO please RP!!!

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Jul 09, 2008 - 08:06
 
WonderLizard wrote:


"Eddie" is Eddie Hartness, the drummer who started and leads the band. "Number Six Driver" was entered into Virginia's contest for a new State song some years back. It didn't win. The winner was a generic, and IMHO fairly awful, anthem from no less than Jimmie Dean of "Big, Bad John" and pork sausage fame.

The band has taken up residency here in northern Virginia and are local favorites. Sadly, despite some good albums and enthusiastic local dates, they've never managed to rise above cuddly cult fave rave status.


Time to correct one's self. Yes, it was "Old Dominion" that lost to the Jimmy Dean schmaltz for the new Virginia state anthem. Eddie Hartness didn't start the band, tho' the band's name does come from a borrowing of Ed Crawford's fIREHOSE stage monicker, since Hartness is indeed from Ohio (see EFO's AMG entry).

Met Mike Clem a couple of weeks ago. Really nice guy--mostly because he let me play his brand new Tacoma acoustic, fretless bass. Yowzuh!
cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: May 07, 2008 - 09:15
 
I like everything I've heard by 'Eddie'. Always think it's Ani at first, which I consider high praise. 'Eddie' feels a little more accessible, lyrically, than Ani though.

Very nice.
nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 22:37
 
madaxeman wrote:
Guid! I'm quite surprised at the 5.9 rating to be honest.

Me too. Nice song, very well executed.
xkolibuul
(Funky osprey)
Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 22:35
 
Ani without the groove and grit. This isn't bad, but give me the real Ani any day.

agnes wrote:
Does anyone else thing she sounds like Ani DiFranco?


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