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| Born | February 14, 1943 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Folk, Folk rock, Blues |
| Occupations | Singer-Songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Website | https://www.ericandersen.com/ |
Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter.[1]
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Biography [link]
In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York.[1] His best-known songs from that time are "Violets of Dawn", "Come to My Bedside", and "Thirsty Boots" (the latter recorded by Judy Collins, amongst others).[2]
In 1964, Andersen made his debut at Gerdes Folk City in a live audition for Vanguard Records. Later that year he performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Coincidentally, on both occasions he was preceded by Jose Feliciano, who was also making his debut performances. In 1966, Andersen starred in the Andy Warhol movie Space. He also took part in the Festival Express tour across Canada in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Delaney Bramlett and others.
Andersen signed with Columbia in 1972 and issued his most commercially successful album Blue River. The master tapes of his follow-up album Stages were lost before the album could be released, resulting in the loss of much of the momentum he had gained with Blue River.[1] The Stages tapes were found nearly two decades later and issued in 1991 as Stages: The Lost Album.
Andersen parted ways with Columbia and recorded sporadically for a number of labels throughout the remainder of the 1970s and into the early 1980s. In 1975 he performed at the opening show of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue at Gerde's Folk City and again in Niagara Falls.
In the late 70s, Andersen was also a member of The Woodstock Mountains Revue, a unique folk group that also featured Artie Traum, Happy Traum and John Sebastian.[3]
After falling into obscurity for a number of years, he reemerged in 1988 with a new album, Ghosts Upon the Road. Though the album only did modestly well, it was widely praised and placed on a number of critics' year-end "best of" lists.
At this time in his career, Andersen was living in Oslo, Norway, and, in the early 1990s, Andersen formed the trio Danko/Fjeld/Andersen together with Rick Danko (The Band) and the Norwegian singer-songwriter, Jonas Fjeld. The trio recorded three albums and performed together for nine years. In 1998, Andersen released his first solo album in a decade, Memory of the Future. Praised as "dreamy and introspective", the album was followed two years later by You Can't Relive The Past, which included original blues numbers as well as a selection of songs co-written with Townes Van Zandt. A double album Beat Avenue followed in 2003. Besides mostly rock-dominated ballads, the album's 26-minute title track was a jazzy beat poem relating his experiences among San Francisco's beat community of artists on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Andersen's next albums, The Street Was Always There in 2004 and Waves in 2005, were both produced by multi-instrumentalist Robert Aaron. In addition to covers of his own songs, the albums featured new versions of classics by his sixties contemporaries and friends, including David Blue, Bob Dylan, Richard Fariña, Tim Hardin, Peter La Farge, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Paul Siebel, Patrick Sky, Tom Paxton, John Sebastian, Happy Traum, Lou Reed, and Tom Rush. His next album Blue Rain, released in 2007, was his first live album. It was recorded in Norway and contains a blend of blues, jazz and folk.
In 2009, Andersen contributed an essay titled "The Danger Zone" to the Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays, a book volume edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen devoted to William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, considered one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature.
In 2011 Andersen released his second live album The Cologne Concert featuring Michele Gazich on violin and Eric's wife Inge Andersen on backing vocals.
In 2012 the filmmaker Paul Lamont (Toward Castle Films) started the production of "The Eric Andersen Story", a documentary film, which is expected to be ready for global distribution in 2014.
In his lengthy career, Andersen has issued more than 25 albums to which many artists have contributed, including Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Al Kooper, Willie Nile, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, 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, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Denver, The Dillards, Ricky Nelson, Fairport Convention, Grateful Dead, Ratdog (Bob Weir), Linda Ronstadt, Gillian Welch, and Pete Seeger.
Discography [link]
- Today Is the Highway (1965)
- 'Bout Changes 'n' Things (1966)
- 'Bout Changes 'n' Things Take 2 (1967)
- More Hits From Tin Can Alley (1968)
- single: "Think About It" / "So Hard To Fall" (1968)
- A Country Dream (1969)
- Avalanche (1969)
- Eric Andersen (1970)
- Blue River (1972)
- Be True To You (1975)
- Sweet Surprise (1976)
- Midnight Son (1980)
- Tight In The Night (1984)
- Istanbul (1985) original soundtrack
- Ghosts Upon The Road (1989)
- Stages: The Lost Album (1991) mostly recorded in 1972-73, with three brand new tracks
- Danko/Fjeld/Andersen - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1991)
- Ridin' on the Blinds - Rick Danko, Jonas Fjeld & Eric Andersen (1994)
- Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness - Various Artists (1997)
- 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)
- So Much on My Mind: The Anthology (1969–1980) (2007)
- Avalanche (2008, reissue)[1]
- The Cologne Concert - live (2011)
DVDs [link]
- Judy Collins Wildflower Festival - Judy Collins, Eric Andersen, Tom Rush & Arlo Guthrie (2003) (2 DVDs)
- Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
- Festival Express - Various Artists (2004) (2 DVDs)
Sources [link]
- —,"Eric Andersen", The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
- Anthony DeCurtis, "Eric Andersen distills the present from the past", New York Times (27 April 2003).
- James Ketchell, "Review: So Much On My Mind by Eric Andersen", Rockbeatstone (August 2007).
- "Paul Lamont", "Documentary: The Eric Andersen Story", (April 2012).
References [link]
- ^ a b c d Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 22–23. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
- ^ Roxon, Lilian: Lilian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (Grosset and Dunlop, Universal Library Edition, 1972) p3 ISBN 0-448-00255-8
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Biography: Woodstock Mountain Revue". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p28322/biography. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
External links [link]
- https://www.ericandersen.com/
- https://www.ghostsupontheroad.org/
- https://www.deaddisc.com/
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-andersen-p1915
- https://theband.hiof.no/albums/danko_fjeld_andersen.html
- https://theband.hiof.no/albums/ridin_on_the_blinds.html
- https://theband.hiof.no/albums/one_more_shot.html
- Naked Lunch @50
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Eric Andersen (footballer)
Eric Andersen (2 July 1904 – 22 January 1977) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Eric Andersen (artist)
Eric Andersen Born in Antwerp 1940 is an artist associated with the Fluxus art movement. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Life and work
In 1962 Andersen first took part in one of the early concerts given by Fluxus held during the Festum Fluxorum in the Nikolai Kirke (Nicolas Church) in Copenhagen. He soon took an early interest in intermedial art. In his Opus works from the early 1960s, Andersen explored the open interaction between performer and public, developing open self-transforming works, such as arte strumentale.
Andersen’s performances depend very much on the public. This is true of not only his Fluxus actions but also his installations, to which the public may be prompted to contribute. From 1962 to 1966 he worked closely with Arthur Kopcke, turned in the late 1960s to mail art and then in the 1970s was concerned with geographical space. His most eminent works include Hidden Paintings, Crying Spaces, Confession Kitchens, Lawns that turn towards the Sun and Artificial Stars.
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Marks & Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S) is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It specialises in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds.
In 1998, the company became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over £1 billion, although subsequently it went into a sudden slump, which took the company, its shareholders, who included hundreds of thousands of small investors, and nearly all retail analysts and business journalists, by surprise. In November 2009, it was announced that Marc Bolland, formerly of Morrisons, would take over as chief executive from executive chairman Stuart Rose in early 2010; Rose remained in the role of non-executive chairman until he was replaced by Robert Swannell in January 2011.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
History
Establishment
The company was founded by a partnership between Michael Marks, a Polish Jew from Słonim (Marks was born into a Polish-Jewish family, a Polish refugee living in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus), and Thomas Spencer, a cashier from the English market town of Skipton in North Yorkshire. On his arrival in England, Marks worked for a company in Leeds, called Barran, which employed refugees (see Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet). In 1884 he met Isaac Jowitt Dewhirst while looking for work. Dewhirst lent Marks £5 which he used to establish his Penny Bazaar on Kirkgate Market, in Leeds. Dewhirst also taught him a little English. Dewhirst's cashier was Tom Spencer, an excellent bookkeeper, whose lively and intelligent second wife, Agnes, helped improve Marks' English. In 1894, when Marks acquired a permanent stall in Leeds' covered market, he invited Spencer to become his partner.
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- The Cologne Concert released: 2011
- Blue Rain released: 2007
- Waves released: 2005
- The Street Was Always There released: 2004
- Blue River released: 1999
- Ridin' on the Blinds released: 1994
- 'Bout Changes & Things released: 1993
- Stages: The Lost Album released: 1991
- Danko / Fjeld / Andersen released: 1991
- Blue River released: 1972
- More Hits From Tin Can Alley released: 1968
- 'Bout Changes and Things Take 2 released: 1967
- You Can't Relive the Past released:
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Is It Really Love At All
by: Eric AndersenSitting here forgotten like
A book upon a shelf
No one there to turn the page
You're left to read yourself
Alone to sit and wonder just how the story ends
Cause no-one ever told you child
You gotta be your own best friend
Sunny days cloudy days
Always seem the same
If love were made of clouds I
Almost wish that it would rain
Even when the skies are clear
The weather's always blue
Every day would be nice If I had
Someone I could come home to
Love is it really love at all
Or something that I heard love called
Something that I heard love called
Now life can sometimes slip away
And love can pass you by
If only it had been another place another time
Maybe there'll be someone who likes to see you smile
Who will want to stay with you
And be your friend for a little while
Then wake up in the morning
Feeling so alive
Something you can hold on to
Not a shadow by your side
I guess that there'll be time to talk
Of things that we've been through
That special time when all is real
To feel reborn when love is new
Love is it really love at all
Or something that I heard love called
Something that I heard love called
Then sundown comes around again
You find yourself alone
Wander through a sea of eyes but always on your own
Was it really all you thought that it was suppose to be
Or are you just another face
In someone's fading memory
Love is it really love at all
Or something that I heard love called