Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen came up in the Greenwich Village folk scene around 1965, putting out his first album 'Today Is the Highway' not long after. He wrote songs like 'Thirsty Boots' that became part of the Vietnam protest movement, and his work from that period has a certain introspective weight to it.

He kept recording steadily over the decades, with albums like 'Blue River' from 1988 and 'Waves' from 1998. Some of his later songs include 'Cross Your Mind,' 'Trouble In Paris,' and 'Rain Falls Down In Amsterdam.'

Andersen collaborated with other musicians from that New York folk world, including Lou Reed on the 'Blue River' album. He never really stopped writing, and his catalog has that consistent, weathered quality of someone who kept at it.