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Eric Andersen is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Rush, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Tim Hardin. Those roots explain a lot about how Eric Andersen arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, Judy Collins, Ralph McTell and Tim Buckley, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt and Grateful Dead, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Eric Andersen, reaching back through Buffy Sainte-Marie and forward to Johnny Cash. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Eric Andersen is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Rick Nelson, and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades and sixteen albums of solo performance, he formed Danko/Fjeld/Andersen with Rick Danko and Jonas Fjeld, which released two albums in the early 1990s.
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Eric Andersen connections
Eric Andersen grew out of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Rush, Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, shares an orbit with Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, Judy Collins and Ralph McTell, went on to shape Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins and Linda Ronstadt. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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