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Features Disc of the day
Eric Andersen
Blue River
(Columbia, 1972)
Greenwich Village mainstay delivers an unheralded singer-songwriter classic...
BBC FOUR's recent repeats of their Folk America programmes sent my mind wandering back to last year's accompanying live shows at London's Barbican. The 65-year old Eric Andersen - tall, bashful and oaken-voiced - appeared on a bill that included US folk stalwarts Judy Collins, Carolyn Hester and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn. For this writer, Andersen's short set was the undoubted highlight of the season. By the time he recorded Blue River in Nashville at the age of 29, he'd spent the best part of a decade cutting his teeth in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village and recording for the Vanguard label. Two years before he'd watched James Taylor - his west coast counterpart - hit the big time with his Sweet Baby James album. But Andersen was never destined to be that guy. You can hear why here. Despite the appearance of Joni Mitchell on the elegiac title track, Blue River is an ascetic affair driven by Andersen's sweetly reassuring vocal and producer Norbert Putnam's super-subtle arrangements. These are songs of love, strife and the quest for salvation: a post-hippie return to the earth coloured by the intimacy of Andersen's folk song apprenticeship and the warmth of the early '70s Neil Young/Elton John/Jackson Browne/Graham Nash axis. Evocative of the evening sun slicing through trees and bonfires smouldering on a dewy dawn, it remains an unheralded masterpiece - a true buried treasure. And there's not a duff tune on it.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 23/02/2010
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The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers (Heavenly, 2005)
Elton John – Elton John (DJM, 1970)
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