Today Is the Highway

Eric Andersen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 6, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EHW
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,225 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #63 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Contemporary Blues

Track Listings

1. Today Is the Highway

2. Dusty Box Car Wall

3. Time for My Returning

4. Plains of Nebrasky-O

5. Looking Glass

6. Never Coming Home

7. Come to My Bedside

8. Baby Please Don't Go

9. Everthing Ain't Been Said

10. Bay of Mexico

11. Song to J.C.B.

12. Bumblebee

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Harbor Me, April 5, 2005

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Today Is the Highway (Audio CD)

Looking back 40 years at the release of Eric Andersen's first CD, the sound is rooted in that era of folk music, owning much to Bob Dylan's sound. But this release when Andersen was only 22 is a delightful one. "Time for My Returning" is a soft melody with Andersen's romantic lyric, "Her eyes lead me off the lonesome trail, her hands cool my body hot & weary, she can harbor me before tomorrow's journey when I face again the storms of another sea." At the time, Andersen cited "Looking Glass" as his best song with his expressive tenor, "She said for me her soul she'd sell even if she must walk the fires of hell." "Baby Please Don't Go" that was belted by Van Morrison & also the Astronauts is given a great folk reading. It's the only traditional piece on the set, all others penned by Andersen. "Song to J.C.B." is dedicated to a street blues singer J.C. Burriss who was a good friend of Andersen's and who spent a difficult time in jail. The set concludes with the delightful "Bumblebee." "Today Is the Highway" is a great folk first album from this wonderful singer. Enjoy!