Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful blend of love, despair, hope and stirred memory has earned him a passionate international following and the respect and admiration of artists ranging from Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen to Lou Reed and Wyclef Jean.

Andersen’s bio reads like a Jack Kerouac novel: from 1963’s San Francisco, writing poetry and living in a coldwater room over the Hot Dog Palace in North Beach, to spending time in Manhattan’s notorious Chelsea Hotel with Kris Kristofferson, Patti Smith, Sam Sheppard, and Robert Mapplethorpe to receiving an “Andy” award with Lou Reed, Ultra Violet, Billy Name and Holly Woodlawn at the Andy Warhol Week Celebration in 2008, where he and Debbie Harry performed sets, Andersen has experiences to fill a thick leather-bound encylopedic memoir.

From the Beats and Greenwich Village folkies to The Netherlands where Andersen now lives, his journey continues today.  “Andersen is the most elegant of singers.” (Rolling Stone). Bob Dylan calls him “a great ballad singer and writer,” while The New York Times said he is “A singer and songwriter of the first rank.” Anderson isn’t just a celebrated and storied poet and songwriter, he is a walking, talking, living, breathing gallery of modern American music and culture.

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