Eric Andersen - The Essential Eric Andersen (Remastered) '2018

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Author of such nonpareil songs as Thirsty Boots, Violets of Dawn, Close the Door
Lightly When You Go, and Is It Really Love at All among many others, Eric
Andersen is one of the greatest singer-songwriters to emerge from the fabled
Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60s. But the one thing missing from his
catalog of recordings is a true, careerspanning anthology chronicling every
phase of his multi-faceted career. Now, Real Gone Music, in association with
Sony Legacy and the artist himself, presents The Essential Eric Andersen, a
2-CD, 33-track set that spans 45 years, 10 different labels, and 18 different
albums in offering the definitive look at his body of work. The highlights are
too numerous to list but here are a few; the retrospective fittingly begins with
two solo tracks from his 1965 debut Vanguard album Today Is the Highway before
touching on such career standouts as his Blue River album (represented by four
tunes including Is It Really Love at All and the title track with Joni
Mitchell), its follow-up Stages (five songs including Time Run Like a Freight
Train with Dan Fogelberg on background vocals), the tapes for which were lost
for two decades before being found in the Columbia vaults, and even an
unreleased track, a cover of Merle Haggards Mama Tried featuring David Bromberg
on dobro. Disc two leads off with several tracks from Erics Arista recordings
including live takes of Thirsty Boots and Violets of Dawn, and then features
collaborations with fellow legends Lou Reed (You Cant Relive the Past), Richard
Thompson (Hills of Tuscany), and Rick Danko (Keep This Love Alive and Driftin
Away, with the Danko, Fjeld and Andersen band), as well as other recent
recordings made in Europe. The collection concludes by coming full circle with
his earliest recording, a 1964 duet with Phil Ochs on Plains of Nebrasky-O
recorded for Smithsonian-Folkways and released on The Best of Broadside
collection, bringing Eric all the way back to his Greenwich Village roots. With
notes by Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone, photos from Erics private
collection, a pristine remastering job by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios in New
York, and a timely release in anticipation of the release of a new documentary
film, The Songpoet, The Essential Eric Andersen isnt just the essential work of
a major figure in American music - its just plain essential.

Eric Andersen, guitar, vocals

Tracklist:
01. Eric Andersen - Everything Aint Been Said (4:41)
02. Eric Andersen - Dusty Box Car Wall (2:28)
03. Eric Andersen - (We Were) Foolish Like the Flowers (5:43)
04. Eric Andersen - Dream to Rimbaud (6:24)
05. Eric Andersen - Secrets (4:37)
06. Eric Andersen - I Will Wait (5:33)
07. Eric Andersen - Waves of Freedom (6:14)
08. Eric Andersen - Come to My Bedside, My Darlin (4:59)
09. Eric Andersen - Mama Tried (2:33)
10. Eric Andersen - Is It Really Love at All (5:21)
11. Eric Andersen - Florentine (3:31)
12. Eric Andersen - Sheila (4:36)
13. Eric Andersen - Blue River (4:46)
14. Eric Andersen - Pearls Goodtime Blues (2:23)
15. Eric Andersen - Woman, She Was Gentle (4:19)
16. Eric Andersen - Moonchild River Song (4:20)
17. Eric Andersen - Time Run Like a Freight Train (8:28)
18. Eric Andersen - Wild Crow Blues (6:11)
19. Eric Andersen - Be True to You (3:07)
20. Eric Andersen - The Blues Keep Fallin Like the Rain (4:48)
21. Eric Andersen - I Shall Go Unbounded (Live at The Bitter End) (4:44)
22. Eric Andersen - Thirsty Boots (Live at The Bitter End) (4:57)
23. Eric Andersen - Close the Door Lightly When You Go (3:19)
24. Eric Andersen - Violets of Dawn (Live at The Bitter End) (4:27)
25. Eric Andersen - Come Runnin Like a Friend (4:46)
26. Eric Andersen - Messiah (3:27)
27. Eric Andersen - Ghosts Upon the Road (10:41)
28. Eric Andersen - Belgian Bar (4:26)
29. Eric Andersen - Listen to the Rain (4:17)
30. Eric Andersen - Trouble In Paris (5:27)
31. Eric Andersen - Rain Falls Down In Amsterdam (6:14)
32. Eric Andersen - Goin Gone (4:29)
33. Eric Andersen - Hills of Tuscany (5:36)
34. Eric Andersen - You Cant Relive the Past (4:04)
35. Eric Andersen - Keep This Love Alive (4:29)
36. Eric Andersen - Driftin Away (5:13)
37. Eric Andersen - Foghorn (5:04)
38. Eric Andersen - Under the Shadows (3:44)
39. Eric Andersen - Salt On Your Skin (Live) (6:00)
40. Eric Andersen - Singin Man (6:13)
41. Eric Andersen - Dont It Make You Wanna Sing the Blues (Live) (4:51)
42. Eric Andersen - Plains of Nebrasky-O (2:46)

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