Eric Andersen
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| Born | February 14, 1943 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter | |
| Website | http://www.ericandersen.com/ | |
Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter.
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[edit] Overview
Born in Pittsburgh, Eric Andersen belonged in the early sixties together with Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan to the Greenwich Village folkscene in New York. His best-known songs from that time are “Violets of Dawn,” “Come to My Bedside” and “Thirsty Boots” (the latter was recorded by Judy Collins and several others).
In 1966, he made his debut at the Newport Folk Festival and that same year he starred in the Andy Warhol movie Space.
In 1970 he took part in the Festival Express tour across Canada with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and others.
In 1972 he issued his most successful (and sold) album Blue River. The tapes of his follow-up album Stages got lost, but were found more than a decade later and issued in 1991 as Stages: The Lost Album.
In 1975 he performed at the opening show of the Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, at Gerde's Folk City in New York, and again in Niagara Falls. After several albums (country/rock/folk), he issued Ghosts Upon the Road a highly recognized album in 1988.
In the early 1990s he formed the trio Danko/Fjeld/Andersen together with Rick Danko (The Band) and Jonas Fjeld and three albums were released. It lasted nine years before the next solo album Memory Of The Future (1998) was issued. This "dreamy and introspective music" album was followed by You Can't Relive The Past (2000), which contains some blues songs and a selection of songs co-written with Townes van Zandt. A double album Beat Avenue followed in 2003, which contains a series of rock-dominated ballads and includes a 26-minute title track (a jazzy beat poem), which represents his experiences among San Francisco’s beat community of artists (see 'Beat Generation') on the day of President John Kennedy’s assassination. On his last two albums The Street Was Always There (2004) and Waves (2005), both produced by the multi-instrumentalist Robert Aaron, he presents (amongst own songs) new versions of classics and of his sixties contemporaries and friends David Blue, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Peter La Farge, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Siebel, Patrick Sky, Tom Paxton, Richard Fariña, John Sebastian, Happy Traum, Tom Rush and Lou Reed.
In his 40-year career he has issued more than 20 albums to which many artists have contributed e.g. Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Al Kooper, Joni Mitchell, Leon Russell, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Eric Bazilian, Tony Garnier, Howie Epstein and many others. His songs have been recorded by artists all over the world, including The Blues Project, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, John Denver, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Peter, Paul & Mary, Ricky Nelson, Ratdog (Bob Weir), Linda Ronstadt and Pete Seeger.
[edit] Albums
- Today Is The Highway (1965)
- 'Bout Changes And Things (1966)
- 'Bout Changes And Things Take 2 (1967)
- More Hits From Tin Can Alley (1968)
- A Country Dream (1969)
- Avalanche (1970)
- Eric Andersen (1970)
- Blue River (1972)
- Stages: The Lost Album (1972) *Released in 1991
- Be True To You (1975)
- Sweet Surprise (1976)
- Midnight Son (1980)
- Tight In The Night (1984)
- Istanbul Soundtrack (1985)
- Ghosts Upon The Road (1989)
- Danko/Fjeld/Andersen - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1991)
- Ridin' on the Blinds - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1994)
- Memory Of The Future (1998)
- You Can't Relive The Past (2000)
- One More Shot - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (2001) (2 CD's)
- Beat Avenue (2002) (2 CD's)
- Street Was Always There: Great American Song Series, Vol. 1 (2004)
- Waves: Great American Song Series, Vol. 2 (2005)
- Blue Rain - live (2007)
[edit] DVD's
- Judy Collins Wildflower Festival - Judy Collins, Eric Andersen, Tom Rush & Arlo Guthrie (2003) (2 DVD's)
- Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
- Festival Express - Various Artists (2004) (2 DVD's)
