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Track Listing
1. Baby, I'm Lonesome
2. Moonchild River Song
3. Can't Get You Out of My Life
4. Woman, She Was Gentle
5. Time Run Like a Freight Train
6. It's Been a Long Time
7. Wild Crow Blues
8. Be True to You
9. I Love to Sing My Ballad, Mama (But They Only Want to Hear Me Rock "N" Roll)
10. Dream to Rimband
11. Make It Last (Angel in the Wind)
12. Lie With Me
13. Soul of My Song
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Eric Andersen (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano); Jonas Fjeld (acoustic guitar, electric piano); Teddy Irwin, Eddie Hinton, Andy Johnson (acoustic guitar); Willie Nile, Leon Russell, Troy Seals (electric guitar); Reggie Young (guitar); Weldon Myrick (pedal steel & steel guitars); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Norbert Putnam (cello, acoustic, electric & arco basses); Garth Hudson (accordion); David Briggs (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, clavinet); Rick Danko (bass, background vocals); Tommy Cosgrove, Mike Leetch (bass); Kenny Malone (drums, percussion); Kenny Buttrey, Andy Newmark (drums); Farrell Morris, Charlie McCoy (percussion); Dan Fogelberg, Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin (background vocals).
Producers: Norman Putnam, Steve Addabbo, Eric Andersen.
Engineers: Stan Hutto, Mark Partis, Wayne Moss.
Recorded at Quadrophonic Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee in 1972 & 1973; Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California in 1972; Shelter Island Sound, New York, New York in 1990. Includes liner notes by Anthony DeCurtus & Arthur Levy.
While Eric Andersen had been one of the more highly regarded singer-songwriters of the storied '60s Greenwich Village folk scene, the success enjoyed by many of his peers seemed to elude him. 1972's lush, gentle, Nashville-recorded BLUE RIVER album marked a change in Andersen's fortunes, bringing him more acclaim than ever before. In an attempt to follow it up, he recorded another album in the same place with the same producer and overall approach the following year. The tapes were then mysteriously lost and Andersen's career was thrown for a loop.
This reissue of the subsequently recovered sessions shows that Andersen was indeed on a roll. His trademark sensual singing and romantic ballads are perfectly cast amid shimmering layers of steel and acoustic guitars and keyboards. The sultry languor of "Woman, She Was Gentle," and the Dylanesque blues-rock of "Wild Crow Blues," show the man to be at the top of his game. This disc comes with the added attraction of bonus cuts fleshed out after the fact; these extra tracks are fully the equal of the original STAGES songs.
Industry Reviews
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ..surfaces from nearly twenty years' oblivion...recovers a lost folk treasure -- follow-up to his classic Blue River, from 1972 -- and recalls an earlier age when the art of songwriting really mattered...
Rolling Stone (06/13/1991)
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