Hudsy is the musical project of Eddie Hudson, a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and live-looping performer based in Anna, Texas. His work brings together personal songwriting, humor, and a live show in which people in the audience can become the subjects of songs written on the spot. Originals, covers, guitar playing, and improvised exchanges share the same stage. The connection with the people in front of him has developed through years of playing in bands, traveling for shows, and learning to stop strangers on London’s streets.
Originally from Dauphin, Manitoba, Hudson began playing trumpet at twelve, joined bands at fifteen, and started singing at eighteen. An early teacher’s insistence that music should be enjoyable helped him imagine making a living from it. At home, his parents let him keep making noise in the basement. Before Hudsy, he played in Snafu, a band whose repertoire was mostly covers. He began performing as Hudsy with a band in 2006, already thinking about transitions between songs and how to make a complete show flow.
Hudson completed a music degree at Brandon University in 2010 and an education degree there in 2012. Teaching would become an important part of his working life, helping him establish himself abroad and providing work when live performances were interrupted. His development as a songwriter also included advice from Jimmy Messina. After hearing an unreleased song called Peter Pan, Messina pointed to an idea near the end and suggested making it the chorus. Hudson carried that lesson into his writing: give listeners a reason to return, and simplify a song without losing the feeling behind it.
Travel was part of that education too. Hudson remembers driving six hours each way through a Canadian winter for one show paying about $300. With no surrounding dates to make it a tour, he played, slept on a floor offered by someone at the show, and drove home. Experiences like that strengthened his interest in living somewhere with more people and more opportunities to perform.
In 2014, a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis gave that plan greater urgency. Hudson has described the diagnosis as changing his timeline rather than his ambition. He moved to England that year, taught to support his visa, and kept performing through busking and open mics. In 2015, he moved to London, where street performance became a central part of his musical training.
One encounter helped shape the show he performs today. Seeing a man with a red backpack, Hudson began singing about him in the middle of a song. The man stopped, listened, and contributed money. Hudson kept experimenting, developing brief observations into verses and choruses and learning to change their musical style. Making someone part of a performance gave that person a reason to stay. Once a connection existed, listeners were more willing to hear his original material too.
Personalized songwriting eventually became another way to support his career and family plans. Before relocating to Evansville, Indiana, in 2019, Hudson wrote songs for supporters to help finance his wedding, visa, and move to North America. My Love, released in 2018, belonged to the same interest in writing for someone close to him. The First Dance followed in 2020, written for his wedding that February.
When the pandemic interrupted his performing schedule, Hudson continued through teaching, livestreaming, and remote co-writing. Collaboration also changed his approach to recording. Encouraged by his wife to work with a mixing engineer, he began hearing more clearly what another person’s expertise could bring to his songs. His recording practice expanded alongside his songwriting, and he now also produces other artists.
A family visit brought the next move into focus. His wife suggested booking a Texas show to help cover the gas. Several bookings followed, then regular return visits. In 2023, the couple relocated from Evansville to Texas. Based in Anna, Hudson continued building a working life around performances, recording, and songwriting. His solo show uses live looping to build musical layers while leaving room for covers, originals, humor, and songs shaped by the particular audience in the room.
His recent releases gather different parts of that life. We Are Joyseekers appeared in April 2025, followed by Together, We’re Relentless, the second chapter of a planned three-EP project. The latter reached streaming platforms on October 2, 2026, after an earlier release for Bandcamp listeners. Hudson says the three EP artworks combine into a tree, while their connected titles carry a larger idea he wants listeners to discover.
The four songs on Together, We’re Relentless span several periods of his life. Daisy began during his years in England, with the wish to help someone he loves find enjoyment in a difficult moment. Who? grew from frustration with being pulled away from writing and uncertainty about his creative identity. Taylor Swift followed a video of Swift working with Jack Antonoff. Hudson wanted to experience that kind of creative exchange and turned the longing into a song.
College Fund, the closing track and the last song written for the EP, began with the first recording Hudson made of his son’s prenatal heartbeat. He wrote it as a letter to the child he had not yet met, describing the father he hoped to become while continuing his life as a musician. The heartbeat became part of the recording itself. The title represents providing for a family through work outside conventional hours, and the song gave Hudson a way to imagine pursuing music and being a present parent together.
Family also appears in Laverne’s Versions, his collection of clean recordings named for his mother, who dislikes swearing. The affectionate joke fits an artist who makes room for lightness alongside difficult experiences. His songs can move between pop, rock, country, and acoustic songwriting, following the needs of each piece rather than a single stylistic rule.
Now a father, Hudson describes a working life divided between his family and the writing, production, bookings, and performances that sustain his career. College Fund has gained another meaning since his son’s arrival: the connection he imagined while writing it is now part of their everyday life. He sings his son to sleep, continues making music, and hopes to show him that following a dream can coexist with caring for the people who depend on you.
Anna, Texas, United States
Singer-songwriter, acoustic pop, indie pop, pop rock, alternative rock
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