Eric Andersen

Since rising out of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, Eric Andersen has maintained a prolific, adventurous, and varied career that spans folk, rock, country, blues, and beat poetry. Writing with a philosophical and poetic bent, he emerged alongside peers like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, and recorded a series of albums for the Vanguard label before finding mainstream success amid the singer/songwriter movement with his 1972 standout Blue River. He was part of legendary '70s tours like the Festival Express and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, and he toured thr...