Eric Andersen - Bout Changes 'N' Things '1966

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Close The Door Lightly
02. That's All Right, Mama
03. Blind Fiddler
04. The Hustler
05. Thirsty Boots
06. My Land Is A Good Land
07. Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'
08. Cross Your Mind
09. Champion At Keeping Them Rolling
10. I Shall Go Unbounded
11. Violets Of Dawn
12. The Girl I Love

On his second album, Andersen took considerable strides toward finding his own
voice as a writer, and establishing himself as a noted singer/songwriter. The
record featured several songs that would endure among his most renowned
compositions. The pretty "Violets of Dawn" was an obvious candidate for a hit
record if it was given a folk-rock arrangement, though it never was a hit, in
spite of several artists trying. "Thirsty Boots," inspired by the '60s civil
rights movement, is one of the better known social commentary folk tunes of the
period, although it wasn't that typical of Andersen's repertoire. "Close the
Door Lightly When You Go" was one of Andersen's best bittersweet romantic tunes,
and covered to good effect by Fairport Convention and the Dillards. At other
points, Andersen still sounded a good deal like early Bob Dylan, but on the
whole he was outgrowing that early persona, nonetheless often sounding like a
gentler and more romantic counterpart to Dylan, with a more conventionally
pretty voice. While Debbie Green added second guitar to a couple of songs and
Harvey Brooks played electric bass on a couple of others, the album was
otherwise just Andersen with his guitar and harmonica, which in 1966 was
becoming an old-fashioned way of doing things among contemporary songwriters.
Perhaps for that reason, the entire album was redone with electric arrangements
and resequenced (although with the exact same 12 songs), and the results were
released as Andersen's next album, 'Bout Changes & Things Take Two.

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