I was born Eric Voss Skelton in Atlanta circa 1983. Skipping incredibly ahead, at the age of 16 I was given a $60 guitar for my birthday. In the fall on 2001 I played my first show. For the next couple of years I moved around the South writing, playing, and just trying to establish a name. After recording my first album, Some Other City, in Nashville, where I also lived for a good part of 2004, I moved back to my  High School home town of Columbia, South Carolina and met Mike Mewborne (drums), Taylor Bray (bass, vocals) and Gabe Ford (lead guitar, vocals) and started what is now known as Eric Skelton & the Homecoming Kings. We quickly gained local success and sold over 1,500 copies of my debut album. In late 2006 after selling out some hometown venues, we decided to record an EP as a band. So we headed back up to Nashville and by February of 2007, we had the 7-song record entitled one more smile fake as the night is blue. Within the first week of its release we sold nearly 500 copies and now we’re expanding into new markets.

 Press

“I mean no disrespect to Jammin Java, as I absolutely adore the subterranean enclave of coffee and culture. But if there were any justice in this world, Mr. Skelton would be playing much larger halls to a legion of fawning fan girls and heart-sleeved fellows…One More Smile is Skelton’s most fully realized effort yet, and a damn fine display of his keen songwriting”  -  K. Langston, Free Times (Columbia)

“Eric Skelton is the only man in who stands in front of kings — his backing band, the Homecoming Kings…It (the band) has added to Skelton’s sound, but the how-have-you-been emotive effect in his voice — one that belongs to a storyteller consumed by narrative — is still there. And his songs are still remarkable. ”  -  O. Taylor, The State (Columbia)

“Eric Skelton is able to create what slips through the grasp of so many young songwriters tender reality. Some Other City and all 11 of its heartfelt tracks grasp listeners hopes and heartaches in such genuine fashion, that if they haven’t experienced such events yet, they’ll wish they had.” - Adam ODaniel, Johnsonian (Winthrop)

Cities played

Atlanta, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Orlando, Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Charleston

Venues (Significant)

Jammin Java (Columbia, SC; 2 sold out)

Headliner’s (Columbia, SC)

Coffee Underground (Greenville, SC; 1 sold out)

The Loft (Atlanta, GA)

Eddie’s Attic (Atlanta, GA)

Lion’s Den (New York, NY)

Artists (Opened for)

Will Hoge (Atlanta)

Ward Williams (Jump little children)

David Mead (RCA)

Need to Breathe (Atlantic)