Eric Harrison Releases New Album "Bittersweet
NEW JERSEY AMERICANA SINGER-SONGWRITER ERIC HARRISON RELEASES NEW ALBUM “BITTERSWEET”
Harrison will celebrate “Bittersweet” with a release show tomorrow, September 6, at Crossroads of Garwood alongside his band the Crash Chorus.
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New Jersey (September 5, 2025) — 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.
“A life lesson was inadvertently taught to me by the ‘coin pusher,’ the arcade game on which I had squandered most of my money as a Jersey kid ‘down the shore’ in the 80s. It’s a machine full of metal tokens clustered on a powerful flat magnet, over which a mechanical arm pushes the accumulated loot towards the edge and into a chute when the coins finally break free of the magnet’s pull. The trick is to drop your coin at just the right time so that it lands flat between the mound of magnetized tokens and the mechanical arm, increasing the lateral force and the likelihood of the tokens on the edge dislodging. Those fallen tokens are your prize.
I think of the coin pusher as a metaphor for my creative output over the past few years. As a fan of great music and great writing I’ve spent decades collecting so many musical and lyrical ideas from so many great writers, piled up on the magnet of my memory. A few years ago those ideas reached a critical mass and the coin pusher in my brain started sending a lot more song tokens down the creative chute.
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.
In addition to “Accidental Poetry” and “Bleecker Street,” the album also features the previously released singles “Dominique No. 2,” “Sal’s Place,” and “Diner,” the latter two of which were featured on his 2024 EP “(That's What I) Ode to the Dirty Jerz.”
A trial attorney by day, Harrison has been making music for three decades and has continued to hone his craft as an engaging songwriter and performer through the years. In 2021, he made a splash in the Northeast with his song “A Jersey-Sized Disgrace,” which addressed Bruce Springsteen’s DUI arrest that year. He is also a devoted father and often can be found online singing with - and singing the praises of - his two talented daughters.
