Eric Andersen - Jabberwocky, Syracuse, NY, 9-15-1972

I've been posting a lot of 1970s concerts from the Ebbets Field venue in Colorado lately. I was disappointed not to be able to find an Eric Andersen concert recording from that venue, since I came across evidence that one of his shows there was recorded and broadcast (specifically, on October 4, 1974). Maybe it'll turn up someday. But I like Andersen's music, and I decided I'd try to find a similar substitute. I came up with this one, from the same time period.

Andersen put out his first album in 1965. He didn't have big commercial success, but he's had a long career as a respected singer-songwriter that continues until this day. (He's 83 years old as I write this in 2026.) Here's his Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Eric Andersen - Wikipedia

Probably his most acclaimed album is "Blue River," released in 1972. So we're lucky this concert comes from his 1972 tour promoting that album. We're especially lucky to have this, because I looked fairly thoroughly, and this is by far the best bootleg from him from the 1970s (and I couldn't find anything at all from the 1960s). It's an excellent sounding soundboard that was given to someone by Andersen himself, according to the notes I found. He performed all of it in solo acoustic mode.

This is the early show. There was only a little bit of the introduction to the late show on the recording. Since there was no recording of an emcee introduction at the start of the early show, I moved the emcee introduction from the late show to the beginning. I also got rid of dead air between a lot of songs. There was a lot of uninteresting guitar tuning, and well as some silence. But I kept all the banter. 

By the way, as I was posting this, I noticed that this album, and the last album I just posted by Jerry Jeff Walker, both contain the song "More Often than Not," written by David Wiffen. Good song!  

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Eric Andersen)
02 talk (Eric Andersen)
03 Hello Sun (Eric Andersen)
04 talk (Eric Andersen)
05 Close the Door Lightly When You Go (Eric Andersen)
06 talk (Eric Andersen)
07 Why Don't You Love Me (Eric Andersen)
08 talk (Eric Andersen)
09 Lie with Me (Eric Andersen)
10 talk (Eric Andersen)
11 Blue River (Eric Andersen)
12 talk (Eric Andersen)
13 Daddy Frank [The Guitar Man] (Eric Andersen)
14 Is It Really Love at All (Eric Andersen)
15 Time Run like a Freight Train (Eric Andersen)
16 talk (Eric Andersen)
17 Thirsty Boots (Eric Andersen)
18 talk by emcee (Eric Andersen)
19 talk (Eric Andersen)
20 Mama Tried (Eric Andersen)
21 Florentine (Eric Andersen)
22 talk by emcee (Eric Andersen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3nJZ9bdk

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/cKvUwXMxxdo6tU7/file

The cover image is from a concert in Queens College, New York City, on May, 13, 1971. I used Photoshop to remove a big, distracting light fixture right above his head. I also used Krea AI to generally improve the details.

Various Artists - Folk America at the Barbican - Greenwich Village Revisited, Barbican Theatre, London, Britain, 2-13-2009

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've been finding a lot of new BBC related music lately, as I keep searching for things for my big BBC project. I recently stumbled across this. It seems that in 2009, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg hosted a TV series about American folk music. The final episode (the fourth, I think) was this concert, which starred some of the most important singers from the 1960s folk movement. As you can tell from the subtitle, "Greenwich Village Revisited," there was a particular emphasis in picking people from the influential Greenwich Village scene in New York City. In addition to Bragg, a Briton who first got famous in the 1980s, the concert starred Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Carolyn Hester, Eric Andersen, and Judy Collins.

The entire concert was acoustic in nature, which was fitting, given the folk music they were paying tribute to. Each singer got to sing two or three songs (actually four in the case of McGuinn), and then they all came together at the end to do "Amazing Grace" as an encore.

If you like this type of music, this is a really nice concert. I believe it's unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 I Ain't Got No Home (Billy Bragg)
02 talk (Billy Bragg)
03 My Back Pages (Roger McGuinn)
04 talk (Roger McGuinn)
05 Oh Freedom (Roger McGuinn)
06 talk (Roger McGuinn)
07 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Billy Bragg)
11 talk (Carolyn Hester)
12 The Last Thing on My Mind (Carolyn Hester)
13 talk (Carolyn Hester)
14 The House of the Rising Sun (Carolyn Hester)
15 talk (Billy Bragg)
16 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (Billy Bragg)
17 talk (Billy Bragg)
18 Violets of Dawn (Eric Andersen)
19 talk (Eric Andersen & Roger McGuinn)
20 Thirsty Boots (Eric Andersen with Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Billy Bragg)
22 Both Sides Now (Judy Collins)
23 talk (Judy Collins)
24 Anathea (Judy Collins)
25 Someday Soon (Judy Collins)
26 talk (Judy Collins)
27 Amazing Grace (Judy Collins & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MsBkvi6j

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kYDFYTvdQgOVFwe/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. However, I did a lot of manipulation in Photoshop to get it just as I wanted it. I started with a screenshot taken during the final song. But the image quality was very low-res. So I then took screenshots of the heads of each of the people in the image. I pasted those in for higher quality. I then ran the resulting image through the Krea AI program to iron out the kinks from having this really made out of six images. That helped. But then I did it again, and that helped some more.