Eric Slick

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**Eric Slick** is probably best known as the drummer for Pennsylvania rock band, *Dr. Dog* (since 2010) His solo debut however, sees the musician stepping out from behind the kit. The record was penned over the course of 2014, when **Slick** decided to leave his native Philadelphia for the first time and move to Asheville, North Carolina. He practiced meditation and Jungian dream therapy as a form of reinvention and to write his own songs, which all sprung from these intense periods of meditation. **Slick** specifically found inspiration in the works of writer/actor *Spalding Gray*, especially his 1992 book *'Impossible Vacation'*, which details, well, the impossibility of searching for Zen. I know it s the funny trope: indie rock dude goes to the woods and makes an outsider record, **Slick** says. But it was a time of deep introspection and a fruitful period of my life. I wrote somewhere around 50 songs in 2014."