Hearing a common name like Eric Hutchinson might make you think back to high school, scanning your memory for a forgotten face. However, as VH1 may tell you and others who have discovered him already, Eric Hutchinson is an artist you oughta know. Hutchinson, who will be playing at the Blue Lamp on Tuesday, Jan. 20, has a sound that brings to mind aspects of Jason Mraz, Billy Joel, and Stevie Wonder. He plays the piano and the guitar, but he classifies himself as a song writer. "I consider myself a song writer first and then a singer and then an instrumentalist," he says. When asked to name something people may find surprising about him, he responded, "I'm pretty boring. I'm pretty unroc