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{{Infobox album|
{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Blue River
| name = Blue River
| Type = [[Album]]
| type = studio
| Artist = [[Eric Andersen]]
| artist = [[Eric Andersen]]
| Cover = Blue_River_1972.jpg
| cover = Blue_River_1972.jpg
| Released = February, 1972
| alt =
| Recorded = 1971
| released = February 1972
| Genre = [[Folk Rock]]
| recorded = 1971
| Length = 46:43
| venue =
| studio =
⚫
| Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| Producer = [[Norbert Putnam]]
| genre = [[Folk rock]]
| Reviews =
| length = 46:43
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| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]<ref name=CL/>
*[[All Music Guide]] {{rating-5|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47F1DDC47AD7120DE97327B98E653EB08D64CF5C01D2F4749C48D1C1DB70346B540A4DBD2B4E577B479A9B327AE5A0DD9CBE9468DA1&sql=10:9yqvadskv8w6 link]
| producer = [[Norbert Putnam]]<ref name=billboard1995>{{cite magazine|last1=Duffy|first1=Thom|title=Djanko, Field, Andersen Link Sounds of Norway, America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47|accessdate=13 November 2014|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=21 January 1995}}</ref>
| Last album = ''Eric Andersen'' <br>(1969)
| prev_title = Eric Andersen
| This album = '''''Blue River''''' <br>(1972)
| prev_year = 1969
| Next album = ''Stages: The Lost Album'' <br>(1972)
| next_title = [[Stages: The Lost Album]]
| next_year = 1972
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
'''''Blue River''''' is the 1972 album from [[Folk Rock]] musician [[Eric Andersen]]. The album is a landmark recording for the [[Singer-songwriter]]/[[Folk Rock]] genre. Guest musician [[Joni Mitchell]] sings a lovely vocal on the title track "Blue River"
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-river-mw0000200977|title=Blue River - Eric Andersen &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2Score = C<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=A&bk=70|title=Robert Christgau: CG Book '70s: A|website=www.robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=1 |page=173}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]''
|rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=28}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=14}}</ref>
}}
'''''Blue River''''' is an album by [[folk rock]] musician [[Eric Andersen]], released in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-andersen-mn0000799233/biography|title=Eric Andersen &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2018/04/10/looking-back-eric-andersen-savors-hits-shrugs-off-misses/WKyG5WuPxb9FS79b3NCDFI/story.html|title=Looking back, Eric Andersen savors the hits, shrugs off the misses - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com}}</ref> The album was reissued in 1999 by [[Columbia Legacy]] with two extra tracks.<ref name=CMJ1999>{{cite news|last1=Jacks|first1=Kelso|title=Record News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xvhVqhi3QYC&pg=PA13|accessdate=13 November 2014|work=[[CMJ#CMJ New Music Report|CMJ New Music Report]]|publisher=[[CMJ]]|date=2 August 1999}}</ref>

==Production==
The album was recorded in [[Nashville, Tennessee]].<ref name="ND">{{cite web |title=Eric Andersen – Blue River |url=https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/eric-andersen-blue-river/ |website=No Depression |access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref> [[Joni Mitchell]] contributes vocals on the title track, "Blue River".<ref name="auto"/>


==Critical reception==
''[[No Depression (magazine)|No Depression]]'' called the album's sound "subtle and incandescent," writing that producer Norbert Putnam "crafted a sound that was both sensual and spacious — at times reminiscent of Van Morrison’s ''Astral Weeks'' — and always attentive to the languid melodies and sometimes frightening intimacy of Andersen’s lyrics."<ref name=ND/> ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]'' wrote that the album "stands alongside anything that the singer-songwriter produced during the '70s."<ref name=MH/> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' deemed it "a delicately melodic, bittersweetly introspective song cycle that found its place within the Carole King-James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Jackson Browne school of sensitive pop."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-21-ca-1105-story.html|title=Wanderings of Eric Andersen Lead Him Back Into Musical Mainstream|date=September 21, 1989|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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#"Wind and Sand" (Andersen) – 4:30
#"Wind and Sand" (Andersen) – 4:30
#"Faithful" (Andersen) – 3:15
#"Faithful" (Andersen) – 3:15
#"Blue River" (Andersen) – 4:36
#"Blue River" (Andersen) – 4:46
#"Florentine" (Andersen) – 3:31
#"Florentine" (Andersen) – 3:31
#"Sheila" (Andersen) – 4:37
#"Sheila" (Andersen) – 4:37
#"More Often Than Not" (David Wiffen) – 4:52
#"More Often Than Not" ([[David Wiffen]]) – 4:52
#"Round the Bend" (Andersen) – 5:38
#"Round the Bend" (Andersen) – 5:38
#"Come To My Bedside, My Darlin'" (Andersen) - 4:58 ~
#"Come To My Bedside, My Darlin'" (Andersen) - 4:58 ~*
#"Why Don't You Love Me" (Hank Williams) - 2:54 ~
#"Why Don't You Love Me" ([[Hank Williams]]) - 2:54 ~*


~ = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)
~* = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Chart (1972)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|US [[Billboard 200|Top LPs]]<ref name=allmusiccharts>{{cite web|title=Blue River - Eric Andersen: Awards|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-river-mw0000200977/awards|website=allmusic.com|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=13 November 2014}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|169
|-
|Canada [[RPM (magazine)|RPM 100]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4170.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - August 19, 1972}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|61
|}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Eric Andersen]] - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals
*[[Eric Andersen]] - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals
*[[David Bromberg]] - dobro, acoustic guitar
*[[David Bromberg]] - dobro, acoustic guitar
*[[Andy Johnson]] - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, background vocals
*Andy Johnson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, background vocals
*[[David Briggs]] - organ, keyboards, celeste
*[[David Briggs (American musician)|David Briggs]] - organ, keyboards, celeste
*[[Weldon Myrick]] - steel guitar
*[[Weldon Myrick]] - steel guitar
*[[Norbert Putnam]] - bass
*[[Norbert Putnam]] - bass
*[[Glen Spreen]] - organ, harpsichord, keyboards, woodwinds
*Glen Spreen - organ, harpsichord, keyboards, woodwinds
*[[Eddie Hinton]] - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*[[Eddie Hinton]] - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*[[Grady Martin]] - gut string guitar, acoustic guitar
*[[Grady Martin]] - gut string guitar, acoustic guitar
*[[Kevin Kelly]] - accordion
*Kevin Kelly - accordion
*[[Mark Sporer]] - bass
*Mark Sporer - bass
*[[Kenneth Buttrey]] - drums, percussion, tambourine
*[[Kenneth Buttrey]] - drums, percussion, tambourine
*[[Jim McKevitt]] - drums
*Jim McKevitt - drums
*[[Richard Schlosser]] - drums
*[[Rick Shlosser]] - drums
*[[Deborah Andersen]] - piano, background vocals
*Deborah Andersen - piano, background vocals
*[[Joni Mitchell]] - vocals, background vocals
*[[Joni Mitchell]] - vocals, background vocals
*[[Farrell Morris]] - vibraphone, background vocals
*Farrell Morris - vibraphone, background vocals
*[[Jerry Carrigan]] - percussion
*[[Jerry Carrigan]] - percussion
*[[Millie Kirkham]] - background vocals
*[[Millie Kirkham]] - background vocals
*[[Sonja Montgomery]] - background vocals
*Sonja Montgomery - background vocals
*[[Laverna Moore]] - background vocals
*Laverna Moore - background vocals
*[[Florence Warner]] - background vocals
*[[Florence Warner]] - background vocals
*[[Temple Riser]] - background vocals
*Temple Riser - background vocals
*[[The Jordanaires]] - background vocals
*[[The Jordanaires]] - background vocals
*[[The Holidays]] - background vocals
*The Holidays - background vocals



==Production==
==Production==
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*Photography: Urve Kuusik/Sandy Speiser/Don Nelson
*Photography: Urve Kuusik/Sandy Speiser/Don Nelson


==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:46, 7 February 2024

Blue River
Studio album by
Eric Andersen
ReleasedFebruary 1972
Recorded1971
GenreFolk rock
Length46:43
LabelColumbia[1]
ProducerNorbert Putnam[2]
Eric Andersen chronology
Eric Andersen
(1969) 		Blue River
(1972) 		Stages: The Lost Album
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Christgau's Record GuideC[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Blue River is an album by folk rock musician Eric Andersen, released in 1972.[7][8] The album was reissued in 1999 by Columbia Legacy with two extra tracks.[9]

Production

[edit]

The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.[10] Joni Mitchell contributes vocals on the title track, "Blue River".[3]

Critical reception

[edit]

No Depression called the album's sound "subtle and incandescent," writing that producer Norbert Putnam "crafted a sound that was both sensual and spacious — at times reminiscent of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks — and always attentive to the languid melodies and sometimes frightening intimacy of Andersen’s lyrics."[10] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide wrote that the album "stands alongside anything that the singer-songwriter produced during the '70s."[5] The Los Angeles Times deemed it "a delicately melodic, bittersweetly introspective song cycle that found its place within the Carole King-James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Jackson Browne school of sensitive pop."[11]

Track listing

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  1. "Is It Really Love at All" (Andersen) – 5:21
  2. "Pearl's Goodtime Blues" (Andersen) – 2:21
  3. "Wind and Sand" (Andersen) – 4:30
  4. "Faithful" (Andersen) – 3:15
  5. "Blue River" (Andersen) – 4:46
  6. "Florentine" (Andersen) – 3:31
  7. "Sheila" (Andersen) – 4:37
  8. "More Often Than Not" (David Wiffen) – 4:52
  9. "Round the Bend" (Andersen) – 5:38
  10. "Come To My Bedside, My Darlin'" (Andersen) - 4:58 ~*
  11. "Why Don't You Love Me" (Hank Williams) - 2:54 ~*

~* = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)

Charts

[edit]
Chart (1972) Peak
position
US Top LPs[12] 169
Canada RPM 100[13] 61

Personnel

[edit]
  • Eric Andersen - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals
  • David Bromberg - dobro, acoustic guitar
  • Andy Johnson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, background vocals
  • David Briggs - organ, keyboards, celeste
  • Weldon Myrick - steel guitar
  • Norbert Putnam - bass
  • Glen Spreen - organ, harpsichord, keyboards, woodwinds
  • Eddie Hinton - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Grady Martin - gut string guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Kevin Kelly - accordion
  • Mark Sporer - bass
  • Kenneth Buttrey - drums, percussion, tambourine
  • Jim McKevitt - drums
  • Rick Shlosser - drums
  • Deborah Andersen - piano, background vocals
  • Joni Mitchell - vocals, background vocals
  • Farrell Morris - vibraphone, background vocals
  • Jerry Carrigan - percussion
  • Millie Kirkham - background vocals
  • Sonja Montgomery - background vocals
  • Laverna Moore - background vocals
  • Florence Warner - background vocals
  • Temple Riser - background vocals
  • The Jordanaires - background vocals
  • The Holidays - background vocals

Production

[edit]
  • Producer: Norbert Putnam
  • Recording Engineer: Stan Hutto/Glen Kolotkin/Stan Tonkel
  • Production Manager: Jessica Sowin
  • Art Direction: John Berg
  • Liner Notes: Anthony DeCurtis
  • Photography: Urve Kuusik/Sandy Speiser/Don Nelson

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 173.
  2. ^ Duffy, Thom (21 January 1995). "Djanko, Field, Andersen Link Sounds of Norway, America". Billboard. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Blue River - Eric Andersen | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG Book '70s: A". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 28.
  6. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 14.
  7. ^ "Eric Andersen | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Looking back, Eric Andersen savors the hits, shrugs off the misses - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  9. ^ Jacks, Kelso (2 August 1999). "Record News". CMJ New Music Report. CMJ. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  10. ^ a b "Eric Andersen – Blue River". No Depression. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Wanderings of Eric Andersen Lead Him Back Into Musical Mainstream". Los Angeles Times. September 21, 1989.
  12. ^ "Blue River - Eric Andersen: Awards". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  13. ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - August 19, 1972" (PDF).
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