1. Eric Andersen was born on February 14,1943 and is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Rick Nelson, and many others.
32 Facts About Eric Andersen
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Eric Andersen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Snyder, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.
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Elvis Presley made an impression on him when 15-year-old Eric Andersen saw him perform.
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Eric Andersen moved to Boston and then San Francisco, where he met Tom Paxton, finally settling in New York City at the height of the Greenwich Village folk movement.
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Eric Andersen was at one point married to former Cambridge folksinger Debbie Green, who contributed guitar, piano, and backing vocal performances to various records Eric Andersen released between 1965 and 1975.
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Eric Andersen was a resident of Woodstock, New York, between 1975 and 1983.
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Eric Andersen then moved to Oslo, Norway, and maintained a residence in New York City.
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Eric Andersen was cohabiting and has four children with the Norwegian visual artist Unni Askeland.
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Eric Andersen married Dutch social scientist and singer Inge Andersen in 2006.
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Eric Andersen has a daughter Sari, who contributed backing vocal performances to his Memory of the Future album.
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In 2022, Eric Andersen was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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In 1964, Eric Andersen made his debut at Gerdes Folk City in a live audition for Vanguard Records.
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Eric Andersen took part in the Festival Express tour across Canada in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Delaney Bramlett and others.
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Eric Andersen signed with Columbia in 1972 and issued his most commercially successful album, Blue River, on that label.
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Eric Andersen parted ways with Columbia and recorded sporadically for a number of labels throughout the remainder of the 1970s and into the early 1980s.
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Eric Andersen fell into obscurity for a number of years for audiences in United States.
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Eric Andersen established his own company, Wind and Sand Records, to sell his music through mail order.
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Eric Andersen reemerged in 1989 with a new album, Ghosts Upon the Road.
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In 1998, Eric Andersen released his first solo album in a decade, Memory of the Future.
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In 2011, Eric Andersen released his second live album, The Cologne Concert, with it:Michele Gazich on violin and Inge Eric Andersen on backing vocals.
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In 2013, Eric Andersen performed in Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation, a feature-length documentary about the Greenwich Village music scene, which was issued on DVD in November.
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In May 2017, Eric Andersen released his album Mingle with the Universe: The Worlds of Lord Byron, featuring Inge Eric Andersen, it:Michele Gazich, Giorgio Curcettie, Cheryl Prashker and Paul Zoontjes with cover design paintings of de:Oliver Jordan.
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In February 2023, Appaloosa Records issued Foolish Like the Flowers, a live album recorded in Spaziomusica, Italy featuring Scarlet Rivera on violin, Paolo Ercoli on dobro, Cheryl Prashker on percussion and Inge Eric Andersen on backing vocals.
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In February 2025, EARecords issued Blue River an album with it:Michele Gazich and Inge Eric Andersen recorded at Billboard Live, Tokyo, Japan in 2012.
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In 2003, Eric Andersen won the Premio Tenco award with Patti Smith in San Remo, Italy, the country's most prestigious songwriting award.
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In 1999 Eric Andersen wrote an essay entitled "My Beat Journal" for the Rolling Stone Book of the Beats.
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In 2009, Andersen contributed an essay entitled "The Danger Zone" to the Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays, a book volume edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen devoted to William S Burroughs' Naked Lunch, considered one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature.
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Eric Andersen wrote the lyric texts, composed music, and recorded songs for the painter Oliver Jordan's Albert Camus exhibition called "Paintings out of Revolt".
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In 1965, Eric Andersen starred in the Andy Warhol movie Space, in which he sang.
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In 1974, Eric Andersen appeared in the Les Blank documentary A Poem is a Naked Person, which covered three years in the life of rock star Leon Russell.
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In 1984, Eric Andersen appeared as a guest in a film documentary about Phil Ochs called Chords of Fame and sang the Ochs' song, "When I'm Gone".
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In 1985, Eric Andersen wrote original music for the movie Istanbul, starring Brad Dourif.