Hometown: Austin, TX
Eric McKinney is an in-demand engineer/producer, artist consultant, booking agent, song pitcher, songwriter, and musician who co-owns and operates Wonderland Studios, Texas Time Artist Services, and Texas Time Records. Wonderland is a busy project studio facility in “The Live Music Capitol of the World,” Austin, Texas. Eric has a long list of engineering and production credits which includes working with some top Texas artists and session players.He has contributed articles to music industry publications, judged talent competitions, and is a graduate of The Recording Workshop (Recording Engineering and Music Production Program). He previously worked for an Austin based research/marketing/consulting company for over 10 years as well as Anderson Merchandisers, L.P. (a NARM Nominee [National Association of Recording Merchandisers], and one of the nation's largest music distributors) in which he assisted representatives from EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and WEA Corp with strategic marketing/placement, in-stores and special projects.
Eric also tours as lead-guitarist with Mark McKinney and the Cosmic Cowboys, who have gained two top-10 songs on the 2007-2008 Texas Music Charts, and have opened shows for such charting artists as Kevin Fowler, Randy Rodgers, Wade Bowen, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Eli Young Band, Trent Summar, and Trent Tomlinson.