Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: Eric Andersen Title: Violets of Dawn Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Vanguard Records Original Release Date: 7/27/1999 Re-Release Date: 7/7/1999 Genres: Blues, Folk, Pop Styles: Contemporary Blues, Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 015707953924 |
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An 18-track compilation of the best of Eric Andersen's recordings for the Vanguard label. Andersen has been performing as a folk-based singer-songwriter since the early 1960s. His songs have a more romantic bent than his s... more » |
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Album Description An 18-track compilation of the best of Eric Andersen's recordings for the Vanguard label. Andersen has been performing as a folk-based singer-songwriter since the early 1960s. His songs have a more romantic bent than his socially conscious peers like Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton. It includes two rare tracks that never appeared on Andersen's album releases - 'Boots Of Blue' and 'Rambler's Lament' only appeared on the 1993 compilation The Original New Folks. The remaining 16 tracks are taken from his five Vanguard studio albums. Vanguard. 2005. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION FOR THE UNINITIATED 08/02/1999 (5 out of 5 stars) "Vanguard continues to release excellent Best Of compilations of their Sixties folk stable. Recent reissues of material by Ian and Sylvia, Odetta and John Fahey (Richard & Mimi Farina, where are you?) are lovely packages indeed but this one has them all beat, mainly because Eric Andersen was one of the most talented singer-songwriters of the Sixties folk boom. Songs like "Violets of Dawn" and Andersen's signature tune, "Thirsty Boots" (interpreted passably by John Gorka on the recent BLEECKER AND McDOUGALL disc, and gorgeously by Judy Collins on her FIFTH ALBUM) established him as a writer in a class with contemporaries like Fred Neil, Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, if not quite in the Bob Dylan stratosphere. Andersen wasn't nearly as political as Paxton or Ochs ("Thirsty Boots" was about as political as he got), but he was folk's Great Romantic. This disc is povides a beautiful intro to his enormous talents, but the listener is advised to pick up any of his Sixties albums on Vanguard, most of which are avaliable on CD.Of course the most highly recommended Andersen is the magnificent BLUE RIVER, a 1972 masterpiece just re-issued in crystalline remastered form. This to me is one of the ten greatest albums of all time, and is a must have for any fan of the singer-songwriter genre. Melancholy, reflective, incandescent. . .See you at the Tin Angel, Eric!"
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