60 years ago today: "Eric Andersen Believed En Route to Big Time". Unfortunately, it didn't quite happen for him. Listen to his fantastic album "Blue River" (1972)! Springfield Union, 28 February 1966.
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Very nice and intimate concert singer songwriter Eric Andersen #Tolhuistuin #Amsterdam #ericandersen

Eric Andersen Blue River | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley Eric Andersen Blue River, Late January 1973 was the due date for our first child. On our pre-dawn drive to the hospital we slipped "Blue River"

#January23 #EricAndersen #BlueRiver album #Woodstock woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/01/23/e...

Mingle with the universe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIA...

#EricAndersen #Byron

Albums of the Year - 11
Eric Andersen - 'Dance of Love and Death'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYx...

#EricAndersen #AlbumsOfTheYear

The Dark - Stranger Songs - 2025-12-09 The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is The Dark. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.

The Dark is this week’s #StrangerSongs theme on #CKCU. You can hear the show anytime at this link.

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#GuyClark #SteelRail #KateCampbell #AnaEgge #ArloGuthrie #ElizaGilkyson #CarolineDoctorow #EricAndersen #LeonardCohen #TomRussell #JohnnyCash #CarrieNewcomer

One random album per day from my collection...no matter how many days it takes. No review, no explanation...just the album cover.

#dinocds #besteveralbums.com #daveedmunds #ericandersen #albumoftheday #albumcollection #musicsky 🎧🎵

Day 253:

Eric Andersen ~ Dream To Rimbaud
(from Stages, 1972)
#ArthurRimbaud #BOTD #EricAndersen #MusicSky

Andersen's homage to Rimbaud, and one of his finest, most hypnotic songs. From Stages a long long time ago.

youtu.be/gv0PtQsUoSE via
@YouTube

53 years ago today, Loraine Alterman did this marvellous piece on Eric Andersen for the Melody Maker (23 September 1972).
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Take your time
And rest your heart
youtube.com/watch?v=qk8S...

#EricAndersen #ShawnColvin

ROBIN BATTEAU – Banned In Sparta Nouveau Retro Media 2025 American veteran of rhyme and reason and his stellar friends tap into archaic vein to tune into timeless truths. [caption id="attachment_100215

Review

ROBIN BATTEAU – Banned In Sparta -
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#RobinBatteau, #TomPaxton, #EricAndersen, #JamesNaughton

Eric's version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-u...

#EricAndersen #PaulSiebel

53 years ago today, Rolling Stone (17 August 1972) reviewed Eric Andersen's fantastic album "Blue River" and Elton John's "Honky Chateau".
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Music Reviews: Nick Drake’s ‘The Making of Five Leaves Left’ and Eric Andersen’s ‘Blue River: Live in Tokyo’ - Blogcritics Reviewers, including this one, have often yielded to the temptation to compare some of today’s artis

Music Reviews: Nick Drake’s ‘The Making of Five Leaves Left’ and Eric Andersen’s ‘Blue River: Live in Tokyo’—"Let’s hope we’ll soon see similar boxes devoted to the making of Drake’s other two studio albums..." Our full review:
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The ribbon
of old blacktop
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9h0...

#EricAndersen

Eric Andersen Brings “Blue River” Alive Over the course of his six-decade-long career, Eric Andersen has released quite a few concert recordings, yet those felt as conceptual as any front-of-audience set can be, while the o

News

Eric Andersen Brings “Blue River” Alive -
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44 songs for a Saturday morning in July. - Saturday Morning - 2025-07-12 Mike Regenstreif hosts this edition of Saturday Morning featuring 44 songs for a Saturday morning in July. Pictured: Mike Regenstreif and Jimmy LaFave at the 2017 Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas C...

I hosted Saturday Morning today on #CKCU and you can hear the show anytime at this link.

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#JimmyLaFave #Klezmatics #EricAndersen #MaryChapinCarpenter #JesseWinchester #BruceSpringsteen #ElizaGilkyson #NanciGriffith #ArloGuthrie #SuzyThompson #Schmaltz&Pepper

53 years ago today: great ad for Eric Andersen's fabulous album "Blue River". Rolling Stone, 6 July 1972.
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Warning ships
To keep their distance
youtube.com/watch?v=owia...

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59 years ago today, the Toronto Daily Star (22 June 1966) did this nice piece on Eric Andersen.
#EricAndersen @robertrotifer.bsky.social

Troubadour

#EricAndersen was a most generous performer, giving me permission to take a few shots during an appearance in Toronto. I fell in love with his music when I was just 16. He is now a still active 82

#musicscape #scape #HumansOfBlueSky #Singers #PhotographersOfBlueSky #CasualPortraits

Busking - Stranger Songs - 2025-06-03 The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Busking. All the songs have something or other to do with busking – playing music on the street or in places like bus or train stations for whatever passersby ...

#Busking was the theme today on #StrangerSongs and you hear the show anytime at this link.

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#JoniMitchell #JerryJeffWalker #DanielKahn #KateWolf #GuyClark #EricAndersen #SteveForbert #SylviaTyson #OritShimoni #BillStaines #MarcNerenberg #BillStaines #RonnyCox #CCR

There's a foghorn
Blowing for the lost
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owia...

#EricAndersen

You can't
Relive the past
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6K1...

#LouReed #EricAndersen

I hosted #SaturdayMorning on #CKCU and you can hear the show anytime at this link.

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#JesseWinchester #PriscillaHerdman #EricAndersen #SuzyThompson #LeonardCohen #PerlaBatalla #RhiannonGiddens #TimGrimm #BettyeLaVette #TimHardin #KeithSykes #GarnetRogers #TomMitchell

Take me to the night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KZA...

#EricAndersen

Be the crowd
And do your work
Applauding silently
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_z...

#EricAndersen

59 years ago today: "Eric Andersen Believed En Route to Big Time". Unfortunately, it didn't quite happen for him. Listen to his fantastic album "Blue River" (1972)! Springfield Union, 28 February 1966.
#EricAndersen @robertrotifer.bsky.social

"There's nothing big I want to prove
No mountains that I need to move
Or even claim what's right or true for you"
-- "Rolling Home", Album 1700 by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by Eric Andersen

#FolkMusic #PeterPaulAndMary #RollingHome #EricAndersen #Album1700

My Top 1000 Songs: #838
'Dance of Love and Death'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZa...

#EricAndersen #Top1000Songs