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Eric Andersen
Background information
Born (1943-02-14) February 14, 1943 (age 69)
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)

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Sources [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ Roxon, Lilian: Lilian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia (Grosset and Dunlop, Universal Library Edition, 1972) p3 ISBN 0-448-00255-8
  3. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Biography: Woodstock Mountain Revue". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p28322/biography. Retrieved 21 May 2010. 

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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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    Podcasts:

    Eric Andersen

    ALBUMS

    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

    Today Is the Highway

    Eric Andersen

    ALBUMS

    Plane Rides & Ocean Tides

    Released 2010
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    Is It Really Love At All

    by: Eric Andersen

    Sitting 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




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