Eric Andersen
Eric Andersen ( born February 14, 1943 in Pittsburgh) is an American singer and songwriter.
Life
Childhood and youth
Music took early an important place in the life of Eric Andersen. At eight, he began playing guitar and taught himself beside still even play the piano. In addition to music and school, Andersen was intensely occupied with the works of Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. But even classics such as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud Andersen led to heart. This reading subsequently influenced the style and content of the songs he wrote. In his songwriting, he later always showed a penchant for the poetic, philosophical and Dreamy- Romantic.
New York
Andersen moved to Geneva in the U.S. state of New York, where he attended 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 eventually discovered by Tom Paxton and invited to New York City, where he soon was one of the former Greenwich Village folk scene to Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Farina, Phil Ochs and Joan Baez. Here he also met Deborah Green know, a singer and club owner, whom he later married.
Music career
In New York, Andersen began music career. After only a few appearances in Gerde 's Folk City and the Gaslight Cafe, where he already imagined own material, he got rave reviews in February 1964 in the New York Times and subsequently a record deal with Vanguard Records.
Records
The first album Today Is The Highway (1965 ) remained an insider but already with his second, published in 1966 plate Bout Changes' N Things Andersen scored a remarkable success. The piece Thirsty Boots from this album became popular in the version by Judy Collins, during which was acquired in a language very poetic held Violets Of Dawn 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 having been previously heard already at the Cambridge Folk Festival in England in the year. Andy Warhol made also in 1966 with him the never released movie Space.
Although it the New York Times as "one of the most outstanding young song - poet " praised, Andersen could not always convincing on his albums. Above all, his 1969 released album Avalanche was whether the mixture of couplets, Blue waltzes, gospel songs and protest songs considered with some harsh criticism. The plate was described as unsuccessful and Andersen himself attests artistic disorientation.
In other productions Andersen was back to more stylistic aplomb and put 1972 Blue River an album that had a slight impact Country and is referred to as his best work. Blue River was also commercially successful and remains Andersen's biggest selling album.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Andersen toured folk clubs in the U.S. and Europe, played sporadically record and relocated to Norway.
Norway
In his new adopted home of Andersen founded his own record label and took 1991 with Rick Danko and Jonas Fjeld the Norwegian folk singer album Danko / Fjeld / Andersen on who got the Spelleman 's Pris 1992, the Norwegian equivalent to the American Grammy Awards. In addition, the trio brought out in 1993 Ridin 'On The Blinds.
Plate Publications USA
Meanwhile, another plate recordings were released in the United States. In 1989 the album Ghosts Upon The Road, which consistently met with music critics approval. The Rolling Stone about it classified "as one of the best albums of the eighties ".
In 1991 Stages: The Lost Album on the market, which was originally intended as a successor board for Blue River, but the master tapes were lost under mysterious circumstances first and seventeen years later, suddenly reappeared.
Appeared in 1998 on the German label Normal Records Memories Of The Future, in which the idealist and utopian Andersen drew a preliminary interim results. The plate came about in an unusual way. Andersen sent his base shots on musicians like Richard Thompson, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson, who then recorded the free tracks at their own discretion. The German edition of Rolling Stone was this: " ... quite socially critical songs with poetic images, packaged frustration and anger in beautiful metaphors. " In the same year, Andersen also toured through Europe again.
In You Can not Relieve The Past (2000) Andersen worked on his own story. The title song he recorded with Lou Reed. Other publications were the double CD Beat Avenue (2003), The Street What Always There (2004 ), a nostalgic look back on his time in Greenwich Village, and waves from the year 2005.
On 25 March 2010 Andersen was in Cologne's Theater The basement a concert that was recorded and published in a forty- minute-long excerpt under the title The Cologne Concert 2011. He was accompanied by the Italian violinist Michele Gazich and wife Inge Andersen.
Songs by Eric Andersen et al were was covered by Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead and Peter, Paul and Mary.
Presence
Eric Andersen lives with his family near Oslo, regularly commutes between Oslo and New York City back and forth, going to be on tour and write songs.
Weblink
- Works by Eric Andersen in the catalog that German national library
- Website of Eric Andersen
- Folk singer
- Songwriter
- American musician
- Born in 1943
- Man