Fans of the New York Yankees might already be familiar with Americana artist Eric Harrison, whose tune “Opening Day” has been an annual spring training staple on YES, the team’s official broadcast network.

Today, after teasing listeners with dynamic singles such as “Accidental Poetry” and “Bleecker Street,” the New Jersey-based singer and songwriter releases his eighth studio album “Bittersweet.”

Boasting 12 tracks, “Bittersweet” is the culmination of a lifetime of admiration for great thinkers and artists, musical and otherwise. Harrison draws on the musical and philosophical frameworks of Cole Porter, Bob Dylan, Marcus Aurelius, and others, confronting head-on his arguments with desire, deprivation - and, finally, acceptance - to provide nostalgia-fueled commentary on life, love, and . . . New Jersey.

1. Laughing at the Guillotine
2. One Day
3. Oblivion
4. Dominique #2
5. Sing What I Can’t Say
6. Bleecker Street
7. Love You Less
8. Mary Full of Grace
9. Accidental Poetry
10. When the Fever’s Broken
11. Sal’s Place
12. Diner

A trial attorney by day, Harrison has been making music for three decades, and continues to on this wholly impassioned new recording which opens on the rhythmic rocker Laughing at the Guillotine, the strident guitar rock of One Day and the melodiously harmonic storytelling within Oblivion, and then we get the mid-tempo Dominique #2, the balladry of Sing What I Can’t Say and the free-wheeling Bleecker Street.

Up next is the Americana/folk-hued Love You Less, the easy going Mary Full of Grace and the enjoyable Accidental Poetry and they are in turn followed by the gratifying flow of When the Fever’s Broken, the gritty rocker Sal’s Place, the set closing on some genial grooves that drive Diner.

“The 12 tracks on my new record ‘Bittersweet’ are the shiniest musical tokens to spill out over the three years since my last album ‘No Defenses.’ I’m cautiously optimistic that there will be at least a few more gems down the chute before I’m done.”

“Bittersweet” is a continuation of Harrison’s decade-long collaboration with producer Kevin Salem and is now available on all streaming platforms. The album will also be available on limited edition CD and vinyl, with the track list split between two sides titled “Appetite” and “Equanimity,” aptly reflecting the lyrical themes throughout.

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