Eric Andersen - Eric Andersen (1969)

Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades and sixteen albums of solo performance he became a member of the group Danko/Fjeld/Andersen. Since the late 1990s, he has resumed his solo career. Andersen is still recording and performing live in Europe, Japan and North America.

In the early 1960s, Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York. His best-known songs from the 1960s folk era are "Violets of Dawn", "Come to My Bedside", and "Thirsty Boots" (the latter recorded by Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, amongst others).
In 1964, Andersen made his debut at Gerdes Folk City in a live audition for Vanguard Records. In 1965 he released his first Vanguard album Today Is the Highway. In 1966 he made his Newport Folk Festival debut. The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein was in the process of becoming his manager when he died.

Unfairly pegged, again like so many others, as a 'new Dylan', Eric Andersen struggled to be accepted as a powerful songwriter in his own right. After a five album stint at Vanguard, which included his classic "'Bout Changes & Things", Andersen moved over to Warner Brothers in 1969 and released this self-titled record. It's record that slipped between the cracks at the time. Its a late night record to listen to, to drift away with. If you hear this album and listen to the quiet songs you will know what i mean...


Tracklist:

Don't Leave Me Here For Dead
It Wasn't A Lie
Sign Of A Desperate Man
I Will Wait
What Is It Like To Be Free
She Touched Me
Lie With Me
I Was The Rebel (She Was The Cause)
Secrets
Go Now, Deborah


Eric Andersen - Eric Andersen (1969)
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