GUESTS ON FIRST CAREER-SPANNING, MULTI-LABEL 2-DISC COMPILATION INCLUDE
JONI MITCHELL, DAVID BROMBERG, LEON RUSSELL, JOAN BAEZ, RICHARD
THOMPSON, RICK DANKO, PHIL OCHS, & LOU REED
RELEASE & TOUR MARKS FIVE DECADES IN MUSIC FOR MASTER SONGWRITER
WHOSE SONGS HAVE BEEN INTERPRETED BY BOB DYLAN, JOHNNY CASH, JUDY
COLLINS, LINDA RONSTADT, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, & GILLIAN WELCH
“Impressive… Very few songwriters have built a body of work as consistently strong as Mr. Andersen's.” – New York Times
“Masterwork… Andersen is the most elegant of singers.” – Rolling Stone
“Eric Andersen is a great ballad singer and writer.” – Bob Dylan
"Your song 'Violets of Dawn' got me started writing songs." Leonard
Cohen confessed to Eric Andersen, seated side by side, legs in the pool,
at the Landmark Hotel, Hollywood, California, in 1967.
Sony Legacy and Real Gone Music will release ‘The Essential Eric Andersen’ on March 30,
marking the master songwriter’s 75th birthday as well as five decades
in music, with a tour shortly to follow. Andersen’s songs have been
interpreted by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, The
Grateful Dead, Gillian Welch, Pete Seeger, Fairport Convention, Mary
Chapin Carpenter, and Eilen Jewell.
The two-disc, 33-track CD or 42 track digital-collection was recorded
between 1964 and 2006 originally issued on Vanguard, Columbia, Folkways,
Appleseed, Rykodisc, and Arista Records. Performers joining Andersen on
the compilation include Joni Mitchell, David Bromberg,Leon Russell,
Joan Baez, Richard Thompson, Rick Danko, and Lou Reed. Andersen and the
late Phil Ochs duet on “Plains of Nebrasky-o.” Andersen’s version of
Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” recorded in Nashville in 1971 with
Bromberg, will see release for the first time. Comprehensive liner notes
by the songwriter himself and Rolling Stone and NY Times writer and Lou
Reed biographer Anthony DeCurtis accompany the compilation. A press
copy of the liner notes is here: http://bit.ly/2D5k63o
Andersen was seemingly involved in every scene of counter-cultural
significance, even as his songwriting bona fides mounted over the course
of twenty-plus albums: seeing Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, and The
Everly Brothers in concert as a kid outside Buffalo, NY; spotting
John and Jackie Kennedy leaving a church in southern Massachusetts;
playing and trading songs in Greenwich Village in 1964; opening for John
Lee Hooker upon his arrival to NYC; meeting beat poets in San Francisco
at City Lights and seeing them read the night JFK died; working to
register black voters in Liberty, MS in 1965; being on the managerial
roster of Brian Epstein (until his untimely death); starring with Edie
Sedgwick in an Andy Warhol movie called Space; showing Joni Mitchell
open G and D modal tunings on the guitar; playing on the legendary
Festival Express (event and film) alongside The Grateful Dead, Janis
Joplin, The Band, and Buddy Guy; recording in Nashville in the early
‘70s; being introduced to Cash by Dylan at Newport Folk Fest in 1964 and
later appearing on TV’s The Johnny Cash Show; opening for The Doors,
Elton John, and The Byrds; living in the Chelsea Hotel in the 1970s
alongside Kris Kristofferson, Sam Shepard, and Leonard Cohen; moving to
Woodstock in the mid-70s; playing on the first two shows of Dylan’s
Rolling Thunder Revue tour; co-writing with Townes Van Zandt and Lou
Reed; moving to Norway and then the Netherlands; and singing with Rick
Danko in the trio Danko/Fjeld/Andersen.
The album includes songs from ‘Stages: The Lost Album,’ whose masters
were misplaced for two decades. A number of the sessions were produced
by famed Nashville producer Norbert Putnam (who also produced Jimmy
Buffet, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dan Fogelberg, Kris Kristofferson,
Joan Baez, and played bass for Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Elvis
Presley, Willie Nelson, and Jerry Jeff Walker) and featuring a list of
ace Nashville session men such as Charlie McCoy, Kenny Buttrey, Eddie
Hinton, and others.
“The Songpoet,” a full-length documentary film on Andersen is expected to be completed sometime later this year.
The New York Times music critic and author Robert Palmer said, “great American music from one of the masters.”
All Music called Eric’s music “timeless… The archetypal, literate romantic.”
Eric Andersen Tour Dates:
April 6 – Green Brook, NJ – House Concert
April 9 – New York, NY – City Vineyard at Pier 26
April 11 – Plainville, CT – Church of our Savior
April 12 – Boston, MA – City Winery
April 13 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Caffe Lena
April 15 – Piermont, NY – The Turning Point
April 16 – Buffalo, NY – Sportsmen’s Tavern
April 18 – Worthington, OH – Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza
April 19 – Cleveland, OH - Nighttown
April 20 – Oxford, NY – 6 on the Square
April 25 – Santa Ynez, CA – Tales from the Tavern
April 27 - Sacramento, CA - The Side Door at the Fifth String
April 29 – Soquel, CA – Michael’s On Main
May 3 - Los Angeles, CA - The GRAMMY Museum (Q&A and short set)
May 4 – National City, CA – AMSD Concerts
May 5 – Santa Monica, CA – McCabe’s
May 6 – Altadena, CA – The Coffee Gallery Backstage
May 11 – Portland, OR – The Old Church
May 12 – Grants Pass, OR – House Concert
May 24 – Marlboro, NY – The Falcon
'The Essential Eric Andersen' 2CD track list:
Disc 1
1. Everything Ain’t Been Said
2. Dusty Box Car Wall
3. (We Were) Foolish Like The Flowers (featuring Bruce Langhorne)
4. Dream To Rimbaud
5. Secrets
6. I Will Wait
7. Waves Of Freedom
8. Mama Tried (featuring David Bromberg – previously unreleased)
9. Is It Really Love At All
10. Florentine
11. Blue River (featuring Joni Mitchell)
12. Pearl’s Goodtime Blues
13. Woman, She Was Gentle (featuring Joan Baez and Leon Russell)
14. Moonchild River Song (featuring Dan Fogelberg, Debbie Green Andersen, and Pete Drake)
15. Time Run Like A Freight Train (featuring Dan Fogelberg)
16. Wild Crow Blues (featuring Leon Russell and Pete Drake)
Disc 2
1. The Blues Keep Fallin’ Like The Rain (featuring Tim Scott and Maria Muldaur)
2. Thirsty Boots (Live at the Bitter End)
3. Close The Door Lightly (When You Go)
4. Violets Of Dawn (Live at the Bitter End)
5. Messiah
6. Belgian Bar
7. Trouble In Paris
8. Hills Of Tuscany (featuring Richard Thompson)
9. You Can’t Relive The Past (featuring Lou Reed)
10. Rain Falls Down In Amsterdam
11. Keep This Love Alive (featuring Rick Danko and Fjeld Andersen)
12. Driftin’ Away (featuring Rick Danko and Fjeld Andersen)
13. Foghorn
14. Salt On Your Skin (Live featuring Inge Andersen and Michele Gazich)
15. Don’t It Make You Wanna Sing The Blues (Live featuring the Spoonful of Blues Band)
16. Under The Shadows (featuring a duet with Sari Andersen)
17. Plains Of Nebrasky-O (duet with Phil Ochs)
'The Essential Eric Andersen' Digital Album Track List:
1. Everything Ain’t Been Said
2. Dusty Box Car Wall
3. (We Were) Foolish Like The Flowers (featuring Bruce Langhorne)
4. Dream To Rimbaud
5. Secrets
6. I Will Wait
7. Waves Of Freedom
8. Come To My Bedside, My Darlin’
9. Mama Tried (featuring David Bromberg – previously unreleased)
10. Is It Really Love At All
11. Florentine
12. Sheila
13. Blue River (featuring Joni Mitchell)
14. Pearl’s Goodtime Blues
15. Woman, She Was Gentle (featuring Joan Baez and Leon Russell)
16. Moonchild River Song (featuring Dan Fogelberg, Debbie Green Andersen, and Pete Drake)
17. Time Run Like A Freight Train (featuring Dan Fogelberg)
18. Wild Crow Blues (featuring Leon Russell and Pete Drake)
19. Be True To You
20. The Blues Keep Fallin’ Like The Rain (featuring Tim Scott and Maria Muldaur)
21. I Shall Go Unbounded
22. Thirsty Boots (Live at the Bitter End)
23. Close The Door Lightly (When You Go)
24. Violets Of Dawn (Live at the Bitter End)
25. Come Runnin’ Like A Friend
26. Messiah
27. Ghosts Upon The Road
28. Belgian Bar
29. Listen To The Rain
30. Trouble In Paris
31. Rain Falls Down In Amsterdam
32. Goin’ Gone
33. Hills Of Tuscany (featuring Richard Thompson)
34. You Can’t Relive The Past (featuring Lou Reed)
35. Keep This Love Alive (featuring Rick Danko and Fjeld Andersen)
36. Driftin’ Away (featuring Rick Danko and Fjeld Andersen)
37. Foghorn
38. Under The Shadows (featuring a duet with Sari Andersen)
39. Salt On Your Skin (Live featuring Inge Andersen and Michele Gazich)
40. Singin’ Man
41. Don’t It Make You Wanna Sing The Blues (Live featuring the Spoonful of Blues Band)
42. Plains Of Nebrasky-O (duet with Phil Ochs)
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Thursday, January 5, 2017
“SINGULARLY GIFTED” (MOJO) SONGWRITER PETER MULVEY’S 17TH ALBUM PRODUCE BY ANI DIFRANCO IN NEW ORLEANS, LA
‘ARE YOU LISTENING?’ OUT MARCH 24 ON RIGHTEOUS BABE RECORDS, MARKING 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF MULVEY’S CAREER
For his 17th album ‘Are You Listening?’ (Righteous Babe Records / March 24), Peter Mulvey traveled to New Orleans to record with producer and friend Ani DiFranco and her band. ‘Are You Listening?’ marks the 25th anniversary of a rich career of approximately 4,000 concerts and over a million miles traveled. NPR’s Robert Siegel wasn’t kidding when he said, “Peter Mulvey is a 21st century troubadour.”
Lyrically, the songs from “Are You Listening?” range from the emotive, stream-of-consciousness flood of “The Other Morning Over Coffee” to the spare, haunting title track, which uses only seventeen words. The brutal allegory of “Just Before the War” is answered by the upbeat “It Can Get You By”. Working with the keen ear of a songwriter who has been informed by poetry all along, Mulvey sets the ordinary and the profound side by side, especially on the quirky opening track, “D.I.A.” which begins as a drive to the Denver Airport and ends as a call-out to “Wayfaring Stranger.”
Musically, the sure hand of Ani and her touring band, Todd Sickafoose and Terence Higgins, along with newcomer Anna Tivel, shape the songs as they run the gamut from the full-on Americana rocker “The Last Song” to the jazzy dissonance of “The Details.”
The friendship between DiFranco and Mulvey deepened in the summer of 2015. Mulvey was opening a run of shows for her when the shootings at the Emanuel Church in Charleston occurred. In the basement of the Calvin Theater in Northampton, after a long heart-to-heart among the band members, Mulvey went into his dressing room and wrote “Take Down Your Flag”. He sang it twenty minutes later, and as he came offstage, DiFranco asked him to teach her the song. She sang it two days later, and substituted her own verse for one Tywanza Sanders (one of the victims) in place of Mulvey’s verse for Susie Jackson. Within a few days, their versions were posted to YouTube and over the next few weeks, hundreds of songwriters added their own versions, including Anais Mitchell, Keb’ Mo, Paula Cole, and Jeff Daniels.
DiFranco’s help with giving “Take Down Your Flag” a wider audience naturally led to the collaboration on “Are You Listening?” Like DiFranco, Mulvey is an artist with deep roots in community: his early days as a busker in Dublin and Boston are echoed by his marathon online benefit concerts via Concert Window, the latest of which he will play from his Wisconsin home venue the Cafe Carpe on January 15. His long association with the National Youth Science Foundation prompted him to add a yearly warm-weather bicycle tour to his schedule: 2017’s tour will be the 10th anniversary, and the tours have covered thousands of miles.
Twenty-five years in, Mulvey stays true to his roots as a busker in Dublin and Boston: this January15th he will play a marathon Concert Window performance, broadcast online from his hometown Café Carpe in Atkinson, WI, to benefit the ACLU, SPLC, Planned Parenthood, the NRDC, Relief International, and Public Allies.
Mulvey has shared stages with Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, DiFranco, Greg Brown, the Indigo Girls, and many others.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine recently asked him to do a video session recently displaying his mastery of alternate tunings and unexpected chordal voicings: http://acousticguitar.com/
NPR Music’s Bob Boilen has called his 2006 song “Abilene (The Eisenhower Waltz)” “beautiful…. touching… It’s also got a clever rhyme scheme.”
Rolling Stone.com :”Haunting... A voice lush and hushed that occasionally sinks into a whisper."
The Washington Post: "The subtle power of his voice, a husky, hushed baritone... understated, at once sophisticated and intimate [singing songs] as cover-worthy as Randy Newman, Elvis Costello."
All Music testified, "For sheer musicianship, it is difficult to think of many contemporary guitar playing singer-songwriters who can claim superiority to Peter Mulvey... It's hard to understand why Peter Mulvey isn't better known. His acoustic guitar work is flawless, avoiding folky clichés for a light, jazzy feel that makes his melodies bounce, and his singing is superb, an understated tenor that puts across deep emotion."
Peter Mulvey 2017 Winter Tour Dates
January 15 – Café Carpe (12-hour concert window) - Fort Atkinson, WI
January 19 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
January 20 – The Evening Muse – Charlotte, NC
January 21 – Isis – Asheville, NC
January 27 – The Parlor Room – Northampton, MA
January 28 - Circle of Friends Coffeehouse - Franklin, MA
January 29 - One Longfellow Square - Portland, ME
February 4 - Cafe Veritas, First Unitarian Church - Rochester, NY
February 10 - Alberta Rose Theater - Portland, OR
February 11 - Ballard Homestead - Seattle, WA
February 16 - Brick 15 - Del Mar, CA
February 18 - Hotel Café - Hollywood, CA
February 19 - Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - Berkeley, CA
February 25 – Taproot - Anchorage, AK
February 26 - Vagabond Blues - Palmer, AK
For his 17th album ‘Are You Listening?’ (Righteous Babe Records / March 24), Peter Mulvey traveled to New Orleans to record with producer and friend Ani DiFranco and her band. ‘Are You Listening?’ marks the 25th anniversary of a rich career of approximately 4,000 concerts and over a million miles traveled. NPR’s Robert Siegel wasn’t kidding when he said, “Peter Mulvey is a 21st century troubadour.”
Lyrically, the songs from “Are You Listening?” range from the emotive, stream-of-consciousness flood of “The Other Morning Over Coffee” to the spare, haunting title track, which uses only seventeen words. The brutal allegory of “Just Before the War” is answered by the upbeat “It Can Get You By”. Working with the keen ear of a songwriter who has been informed by poetry all along, Mulvey sets the ordinary and the profound side by side, especially on the quirky opening track, “D.I.A.” which begins as a drive to the Denver Airport and ends as a call-out to “Wayfaring Stranger.”
Musically, the sure hand of Ani and her touring band, Todd Sickafoose and Terence Higgins, along with newcomer Anna Tivel, shape the songs as they run the gamut from the full-on Americana rocker “The Last Song” to the jazzy dissonance of “The Details.”
The friendship between DiFranco and Mulvey deepened in the summer of 2015. Mulvey was opening a run of shows for her when the shootings at the Emanuel Church in Charleston occurred. In the basement of the Calvin Theater in Northampton, after a long heart-to-heart among the band members, Mulvey went into his dressing room and wrote “Take Down Your Flag”. He sang it twenty minutes later, and as he came offstage, DiFranco asked him to teach her the song. She sang it two days later, and substituted her own verse for one Tywanza Sanders (one of the victims) in place of Mulvey’s verse for Susie Jackson. Within a few days, their versions were posted to YouTube and over the next few weeks, hundreds of songwriters added their own versions, including Anais Mitchell, Keb’ Mo, Paula Cole, and Jeff Daniels.
DiFranco’s help with giving “Take Down Your Flag” a wider audience naturally led to the collaboration on “Are You Listening?” Like DiFranco, Mulvey is an artist with deep roots in community: his early days as a busker in Dublin and Boston are echoed by his marathon online benefit concerts via Concert Window, the latest of which he will play from his Wisconsin home venue the Cafe Carpe on January 15. His long association with the National Youth Science Foundation prompted him to add a yearly warm-weather bicycle tour to his schedule: 2017’s tour will be the 10th anniversary, and the tours have covered thousands of miles.
Twenty-five years in, Mulvey stays true to his roots as a busker in Dublin and Boston: this January15th he will play a marathon Concert Window performance, broadcast online from his hometown Café Carpe in Atkinson, WI, to benefit the ACLU, SPLC, Planned Parenthood, the NRDC, Relief International, and Public Allies.
Mulvey has shared stages with Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, DiFranco, Greg Brown, the Indigo Girls, and many others.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine recently asked him to do a video session recently displaying his mastery of alternate tunings and unexpected chordal voicings: http://acousticguitar.com/
NPR Music’s Bob Boilen has called his 2006 song “Abilene (The Eisenhower Waltz)” “beautiful…. touching… It’s also got a clever rhyme scheme.”
Rolling Stone.com :”Haunting... A voice lush and hushed that occasionally sinks into a whisper."
The Washington Post: "The subtle power of his voice, a husky, hushed baritone... understated, at once sophisticated and intimate [singing songs] as cover-worthy as Randy Newman, Elvis Costello."
All Music testified, "For sheer musicianship, it is difficult to think of many contemporary guitar playing singer-songwriters who can claim superiority to Peter Mulvey... It's hard to understand why Peter Mulvey isn't better known. His acoustic guitar work is flawless, avoiding folky clichés for a light, jazzy feel that makes his melodies bounce, and his singing is superb, an understated tenor that puts across deep emotion."
Peter Mulvey 2017 Winter Tour Dates
January 15 – Café Carpe (12-hour concert window) - Fort Atkinson, WI
January 19 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
January 20 – The Evening Muse – Charlotte, NC
January 21 – Isis – Asheville, NC
January 27 – The Parlor Room – Northampton, MA
January 28 - Circle of Friends Coffeehouse - Franklin, MA
January 29 - One Longfellow Square - Portland, ME
February 4 - Cafe Veritas, First Unitarian Church - Rochester, NY
February 10 - Alberta Rose Theater - Portland, OR
February 11 - Ballard Homestead - Seattle, WA
February 16 - Brick 15 - Del Mar, CA
February 18 - Hotel Café - Hollywood, CA
February 19 - Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse - Berkeley, CA
February 25 – Taproot - Anchorage, AK
February 26 - Vagabond Blues - Palmer, AK
March 9 - The Walnut Room - Denver, CO
March 10 - Friends House Concerts - Colorado Springs, CO
March 11 - Old San Ysidro Church - Corrales, NM
March 12 - Kitchen Sink Studio - Santa Fe, NM
March 17 - The Etude Sessions @ Paradigm - Sheboygan, WI
April 1 - Beal House - Kingston, MA
April 6 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA
April 7 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA
April 8 - Club Passim - Cambridge, MA
June 1 - Hezekiah Stone's Coffeehouse - Leicester, MA
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