SELLING POINTS • Author of Such Classic Songs as “Thirsty Boots,” ERIC ANDERSEN “Violets of Dawn,” “Close the Door Lightly When You Go,” and “Is It Really Love at All” Among Many Others, Eric Andersen Is One of the THE ESSENTIAL ERIC ANDERSEN Greatest Singer-Songwriters to Emerge from the Fabled Greenwich Village Folk Scene of the ‘60s (2-CD SET) • Such an Artist Demands a True, Career-Spanning Anthology Chronicling Every Phase of His Multi- Faceted Career STREET DATE: March 30, 2018 • Now, Real Gone Music, along with Sony Legacy and with Input from Eric Andersen Himself, Is Releasing the Ultimate Retrospective of His Author of such nonpareil songs as SONGS: Body of Work “Thirsty Boots,” “Violets of Dawn,” • The Essential Eric Andersen Spans 45 Years of CD One Recordings Taken from 18 Different Albums “Close the Door Lightly When • Includes Material from the Vanguard, You Go,” and “Is It Really Love 1. Everything Ain’t Been Said Warner Bros., Columbia, Arista, Gold Castle, at All” among many others, Eric 2. Dusty Box Car Wall Appleseed, Meyer, Ryko, Smithsonian Folkways, Andersen is one of the greatest 3. (We Were) Foolish Like the Flowers CBS Holland and Sony Legacy Labels (featuring Bruce Langhorne) • 33 tracks singer-songwriters to emerge from 4. Dream to Rimbaud 5. Secrets • Features an Unreleased Take on Merle Haggard’s the fabled Greenwich Village folk 6. I Will Wait “Mama Tried” with David Bromberg scene of the ‘60s. But the one 7. Waves of Freedom • Other Collaborators Include Joni Mitchell, thing missing from his catalog 8. Mama Tried Lou Reed, Rick Danko, Richard Thompson, (featuring David Bromberg— Dan Fogelberg, Joan Baez, and Leon Russell of recordings is a true, career- previously unreleased) • Highlights Include Four Tracks from the Classic spanning anthology chronicling 9. Is It Really Love at All 10. Florentine Blue River Album and Five Tracks from the every phase of his multi-faceted career. Now, Stages Album, the Tapes for Which Were Lost for 11. Blue River (featuring Joni Mitchell) Two Decades Real Gone Music, in association with Sony Legacy and the artist himself, 12. Pearl’s Goodtime Blues 13. Woman, She Was Gentle • Also Features the Best of Andersen’s Recent presents The Essential Eric Andersen, a 2-CD, 33-track set that spans 45 (featuring Joan Baez and Leon Russell) European Recordings years, 10 different labels, and 18 different albums in offering the definitive 14. Moonchild River Song • The Collection Concludes with Andersen’s look at his body of work. The highlights are too numerous to list but here (featuring Dan Fogelberg, Debbie Green First-Ever Recording, a Duet with Phil Ochs on Andersen and Pete Drake) “Plains of Nebraska-O,” Taking Him Back to His are a few; the retrospective fittingly begins with two solo tracks from his 15. Time Run Like a Freight Train Greenwich Village Roots 1965 debut Vanguard album Today Is the Highway before touching on (featuring Dan Fogelberg) • Liner Notes by Anthony DeCurtis of 16. Wild Crow Blues Rolling Stone such career standouts as his Blue River album (represented by four tunes (featuring Leon Russell and Pete Drake) • Photos from the Artist’s Private Collection including “Is It Really Love at All” and the title track with Joni Mitchell), CD Two • Remastered by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios its follow-up Stages (five songs including “Time Run Like a Freight Train” in New York with Dan Fogelberg on background vocals), the tapes for which were 1. The Blues Keep Fallin’ Like the Rain • Released in Conjunction with a New lost for two decades before being found in the Columbia vaults, and even (featuring Tom Scott and Maria Muldaur) Documentary Film on Eric Andersen, The 2. Thirsty Boots (Live at the Bitter End) Songpoet, to Be Released Later This Year an unreleased track, a cover of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” featuring 3. Close the Door Lightly When You Go David Bromberg on dobro. Disc two leads off with several tracks from 4. Violets of Dawn (Live at the Bitter End) • The Definitive Look at a Major Artist in 5. Messiah American Music Eric’s Arista recordings including live takes of “Thirsty Boots” and “Violets 6. Belgian Bar of Dawn,” and then features collaborations with fellow legends Lou Reed 7. Trouble in Paris 8. Hills of Tuscany (“You Can’t Relive the Past”), Richard Thompson (“Hills of Tuscany”), (featuring Richard Thompson and and Rick Danko (“Keep This Love Alive” and “Driftin’ Away,” with the Robert Aaron) 9. You Can’t Relive the Past Danko, Fjeld and Andersen band), as well as other recent recordings (featuring Lou Reed) made in Europe. The collection concludes by coming full circle with his 10. Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam iBarcoder Trial earliest recording, a 1964 duet with Phil Ochs on “Plains of Nebrasky-O” 11. Keep This Love Alive 12. Driftin’ Away 8 48064 00695 4 recorded for Smithsonian-Folkways and released on The Best of Broadside (featuring Rick Danko) collection, bringing Eric all the way back to his Greenwich Village roots. 13. Foghorn UPC: 848064006954 14. Salt on Your Skin With notes by Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone, photos from Eric’s FORMAT: 2-CD Set (featuring Inge Andersen and private collection, a pristine remastering job by Mark Wilder at Battery Michele Gakich) PACKAGING: Slimline Jewel Case 15. Don’t It Make You Wanna Sing the Blues RETURNABLE: Yes Studios in New York, and a timely release in anticipation of the release of (Live featuring the Spoonful of Blues Band) BOX LOT: 30 a new documentary film,The Songpoet, The Essential Eric Andersen isn’t 16. Under the Shadows (featuring a duet with Sari Andersen) GENRE: Singer-Songwriter just the essential work of a major figure in American music—it’s just plain 17. Plains of Nebrasky-O PARENTAL ADVISORY: No essential. (Duet with Phil Ochs).