Blue River

Eric Andersen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000008CVD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,220 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Is It Really Love at All

2. Pearl's Goodtime Blues

3. Wind and Sand

4. Faithful

5. Blue River

6. Florentine

7. Sheila

8. More Often Than Not

9. Round the Bend

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Simply, One of Eric Andersen's Masterpieces!, August 5, 2000

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue River (Audio CD)

This classic album was the early culmination of Andersen's rise to prominence in the sixties with its thoughtful, poignant, and philosophic look both within Andersen himself and in the world as he saw it during a period of personal difficulty and inner turmoil.Eric Andersen is nothing if not a consummate writer, performer, and interpreter of classic folk melodies and subjects, and he delivers on his considerable promise. Certainly both earlier and later professional efforts by Andersen indicate just how talented and durable his abilities as a writer and performer he is. Here he is in superb form, with original songs ranging from the opening stunner "Is It Really Love At All" to "Wind And Sand" to other wistful interpretations like "Florentine" and the very wry "Faithful", which Linda Ronstadt did a terrific cover version of years later. My personal favorites here are ""Blue River", a haunting and evocative song about life simply led, and "More Often Than Not", an unusual (to say the least) take on life as a road-traveling performer. One often hears albums described as a collection of songs, but this is truly a song cycle that has a special mood, atmosphere, and timbre of its own. This is a special album by a monumental talent who has never gotten the wide acclaim and popular recognition his unusually gifted abilities seem to deserve. Buy this CD and I guarantee you will soon find yourself referring to it reverently, as most "folkies" do.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Collection of Songs, February 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Blue River (Audio CD)

If you at all like the singer/songwriter folk genre, you'll love this album. I have three copies--one on vinyl, one CD at home and one CD at work. This is Eric Andersen at his best-- beautifully orchestrated, lovely melodies, touching lyrics. The poetic artistry shadowed in earlier works like "Close the Door Lightly" matured here. If you've ever broken up with a loved one, you'll see yourself in "Faithful". If you've ever had a fleeting romantic encounter, you'll recognize "Is It Really Love At All". "Florentine" will remind you of all your idealized loves, and the "Blue River" duet (as Eric Andersen calls it) with Joni Mitchell will haunt you and touch your soul.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hooray! Blue River is available again!, August 4, 1999

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue River (Audio CD)

I bought this in vinyl when it first came out and played it until the tracks were gone. Still, I refused to give it up and have been listening to a tape I made from the original vinyl.....like a pair of jeans you simply refuse to give up :)

Eric did his best work on this album and the back up musicians did superb work as well, including a haunting vocal by Joni Mitchell on Blue River.

I have never written a review, but this release is a cause for great joy in my house! If you love folk music, buy this CD...you won't be sorry.