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Eric Andersen (* February 14 1943 in Pittsburgh ) is an American singer and songwriter.
Childhood and Youth
Music was an important place early in the life of Eric Andersen. At eight, he began playing the guitar and taught himself beside themselves with even the piano. In addition to music school, and Andersen was intensely occupied with the works of Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac . As well as classics such as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud in Andersen led to heart. This subsequently influenced reading style and content of the songs he wrote. In his songwriting , he later showed a tendency to always poetic, philosophical and dreamy-romantic.
New York
Andersen moved to Geneva in the U.S. state of New York and attended the Hobart College. After two years he abandoned his studies and hitchhiked to the West Coast to San Francisco , where he tried to find in coffee houses an audience for his songs. In 1963 he was finally by Tom Paxton discovered and after New York City invited, where he soon became the former Greenwich Village folk scene to Bob Dylan , Richard and Mimi Farina, Phil Ochs and Joan Baez was one. Here he also met Deborah Green, a singer and club owner, whom he later married.
Music career
In New York, Andersen’s musical career began. After a few appearances in Gerde’s Folk City and the Gaslight Cafe, where he presented already own material, he got rave reviews in February 1964 in the New York Times and subsequently a recording contract with Vanguard Records .
Record
The first album, Today Is The Highway (1965) was an insider but already in 1966 published his second plate Bout Changes’ N Things Andersen scored a notable success. The song Thirsty Boots was from this album into the version of Judy Collins popular, while in a very poetic language held Violets Of Dawn was taken over by musicians of various styles and Andersen “established as a master of lyrical and romantic ballad.” (Roxon)
In the same year he first played at the Newport Folk Festival , after he had been the year before had heard the Cambridge Folk Festival in England. Also in 1966, turned Andy Warhol with him a never released movie Space.
Although it the New York Times as “one of the most outstanding young song-poet”, praised Andersen was on his records is not always convincing. Above all, his 1969 released album Avalanche was whether the mixture of couplets , Blue waltzes, gospel songs and protest songs with sometimes considered harsh criticism. The plate was called a failed dive and Andersen himself attests artistic disorientation.
For further productions took Andersen back to safety and put more stylistic 1972, Blue River before an album that has a slight impact country and had called his best work. Was also commercially Blue River and is today successfully Andersen’s best-selling record.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Andersen toured folk clubs in the U.S. and Europe, played sporadically record and moved his residence to Norway.
Norway
In his new adopted home Andersen founded his own record label and began in 1991 with Rick Danko and Norwegian singer Jonas Fjeld folk album Danko / Fjeld / Andersen in the 1992 ‘s Spelleman Pris received, the Norwegian equivalent of the American Grammys . 1993 also brought the trio Ridin ‘On The Blinds out.
U.S. record releases
Meanwhile, also published in the U.S. more recordings. In 1989 the album Ghosts Upon The Road, which was met continuously with music critics on consent. The Rolling Stone classified it as “one of the best albums of the eighties.”
1991 came Stages: The Lost Album on the market that is actually the successor board for Blue River was provided, but the master tapes were lost under mysterious circumstances at first, and seventeen years later, suddenly reappeared.
1998 saw the German label Normal Records Memories Of The Future, in which the idealist and utopian Andersen drew a preliminary interim results. The record came about in an unusual way. Andersen sent his base recordings of musicians like Richard Thompson , Rick Danko and Garth Hudson , the then recorded the free tracks as they see fit. The German edition of Rolling Stone was this: “… quite socially critical songs with poetic images, frustration and anger wrapped in beautiful metaphors.” That same year, Andersen toured again through Europe.
In You Can not Relieve The Past (2000) Andersen worked on his own story. The title song he played with Lou Reed one. Further releases the double CD were Beat Street (2003), The Street Was Always There (2004), a nostalgic look back at his time in Greenwich Village and “Waves” from the year 2005.
On 25 Andersen in Cologne in March 2010 gave a concert theater The cellar, which was recorded in 2011 and forty minutes long, in a statement titled “The Cologne Concert” was released. He was accompanied by the Italian violinist Michele Gazich and wife Inge Andersen.
Songs by Eric Andersen, among others, were Linda Ronstadt , Johnny Cash , Grateful Dead , and Peter, Paul and Mary gecovert.
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