Violets of Dawn

Violets of Dawn Artist: Eric Andersen
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 015707953924
EAN: 0015707953924
ASIN: B00000JKF8


Release Date: 1999-07-07

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Listmania:

  1. THE FOLK EARLY YEARS
  2. Obscure Folk Rockers

Tracks:

  1. Boots Of Blue
  2. Rambler's Lament
  3. Violets Of Dawn
  4. Thirsty Boots
  5. Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'
  6. The Hustler
  7. Close The Door Lightly When You Go
  8. Song To J.C.B.
  9. Dusty Box Car Wall
  10. Come To My Bedside
  11. Looking Glass
  12. Just A Country Dream
  13. Eyes Gently Rolling
  14. On The Edge Of You
  15. All I Remember Is You
  16. Rollin' Home
  17. Miss Lonely Are You Blue
  18. Broken Hearted Mama

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION FOR THE UNINITIATED.......1999-08-02

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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