Eric Schaffer & The Other Troublemakers

We're so excited!   Our new album, tentatively titled “Great Wild Nowhere” is in the works.   Produced/engineered by Peter Dalton Ronstadt and recorded at Jim Brady Studios, it will showcase the breadth of the bands songwriting.   

We're still working out which…

"Crazy Road Trip" - the new Other Troublemakers CD is finally in production and due to be delivered the first week of May.    We're super excited about this project - it represents the best work we've ever done.  

Hard…

Colorado.    When I was younger, it almost mythical.   The very first time I ever played in a bar, it was at a place called Gasoline Alley - not far from my hometown in New Jersey.  I was one half of…

The desert seems to come alive in March and April, and we've been busy too.   

Our song "Genevieve" was named a finalist in the Great American Song Contest.   Gotta love that.   We're also starting to get some FM airplay.   A…

I heard the news on the radio just as I was pulling into my driveway after a long rehearsal last night. 

I searched "Leonard Cohen Suzanne" on YouTube. It was one of the very first songs I learned to…

I’ve always refused to write about tragedies. 

9/11, Newtown - both hit close to home for me, but I never felt like these were things to write songs about.  

Two weeks ago, Carol and I were talking with…

So many people have asked for CDs at our shows and I felt we needed to to get something out that would be representative of how we sound and how I write.  I spent several months going over our repertoire…