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Today: Happy birthday Eric Andersen

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Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter.

Eric Andersen has maintained a career as a folk-based singer/songwriter since the 1960s. In contrast to such peers as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, Andersen’s writing has had a romantic/philosophical/poetic bent for the most part, rather than a socially conscious one, though one of his best-known songs, “Thirsty Boots,” has as its background the Freedom Rides of the early ’60s. (The song has been recorded by Judy Collins and others.) (allmusic.com/William Ruhlmann)

Eric Andersen on “The Johnny Cash Show” Jan. 6, 1971, singing Born Again:

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Happy birthday Jonas Fjeld!

From Wikipedia:

Jonas Fjeld (born Terje Lillegård Jensen; 24 September 1952 in Bodø, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known in the English-speaking world for two albums recorded by Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, a collaboration with Canadian Rick Danko of The Band and American singer-songwriter Eric Andersen. Fjeld also recorded two albums with the American bluegrass group Chatham County Line.

He is 60 years old today!

We celebrate him with a collection of his finest songs.

The Bells are ringing for you now (1985):

Paying Back (with The Chatham County Line):

Engler i sneen/angels in the snow (norwegian and english) (with Chatham County Line):

And the same song with Rick Danko, Eric Andersen and Jonas Fjeld:

Blue Hotel (Rick Danko, Eric Andersen and Jonas Fjeld, audio only):

We end this little tribute with the lovely, Mary I’m coming back home (Danko/Fjeld/Andersen):

Great singer and songwriter!

– Hallgeir