Artist: Eric Andersen: mp3 download Genre(s): Folk Eric Andersen's discography: Beat Avenue Year: 2003 Tracks: 14 Blue River Year: 1999 Tracks: 11 Ghosts Upon the Road Year: 1995 Tracks: 10 More Hits From Tin Can Alley CD2 Year: 1994 Tracks: 6 More Hits From Tin Can Alley CD1 Year: 1994 Tracks: 6 'Bout Changes and Things Year: 1992 Tracks: 12 Be True To You Year: 1975 Tracks: 10 Eric Andersen has kept up a vocation as a folk-based singer/songwriter since the sixties. In line to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen's writing has had a Boots," has as its background the Freedom Rides of the early '60s. (The song has been recorded by Judy Collins and others.) Afterward rising from the Northeast folk-club circuit, Andersen began to record in 1965 with Today Is the Highway. His second record album, 'Bout Changes & Things, contained some of his near realized piece of writing, including the highly poetic "Violets of Dawn," "Thirsty Boots," and "I Shall Go Unbounded." All were song dynasty in Andersen's flexile strain (he shaded toward a baritone later), backed by rapid, intricate fingerpicking. In the late '60s and early '70s, Andersen experimented with country, belt down, and rock music, subsidence on an uniting by the time of his masterpiece Gentle River in 1972. This was also his most commercially successful album, simply Andersen, like friends Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt, was constantly too thoughtful for the mainstream. In the '70s and '80s, he recorded periodically while playing folk clubs about the U.S. and specially in Europe, where he took up abode. His afterward material, including 1989's Ghosts Upon the Road, recalls his work in the '60s as it remorsefully reflects on that decade. The '90s byword Andersen get together with friends like Rick Danko and Jonas Fjeld on Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, as well as firing a solo album, 1998's Memory of the Future; Andersen also oversaw the firing of Stages: The Lost Album as well as a 1999 reissue of Blue River. You Can't Relive the Past followed early the side by side year. Beat Avenue from 2003 was an ambitious forked CD patch 2004's The Street Was Always There was a nostalgic face back at the music of the New York Greenwich Village conniption of the early to mid-'60s. Waves from 2005 was some other record album of covers, simply with broader corporeal. Anderson released Blue Rain in May 2007. |
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