Name: Violets of Dawn
Brand: Vanguard
SKU: 60217
Price: 39.48 USD
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Violets of Dawn

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Album: Violets of Dawn
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Boots of Blue
2)	Rambler's Lament
3)	Violets of Dawn
4)	Thirsty Boots
5)	Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'
6)	Hustler, The
7)	Close the Door Lightly When You Go
8)	Song To J.C.B.
9)	Dusty Box Car Wall
10)	Come To My Bedside
11)	Looking Glass
12)	Just a Country Dream
13)	Eyes Gently Rolling
14)	On the Edge of You
15)	All I Remember is You
16)	Rollin' Home
17)	Miss Lonely Are You Blue
18)	Broken Hearted Mama

Album: Violets of Dawn
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Boots of Blue
2)	Rambler's Lament
3)	Violets of Dawn
4)	Thirsty Boots
5)	Hey Babe, Have You Been Cheatin'
6)	Hustler, The
7)	Close the Door Lightly When You Go
8)	Song To J.C.B.
9)	Dusty Box Car Wall
10)	Come To My Bedside
11)	Looking Glass
12)	Just a Country Dream
13)	Eyes Gently Rolling
14)	On the Edge of You
15)	All I Remember is You
16)	Rollin' Home
17)	Miss Lonely Are You Blue
18)	Broken Hearted Mama

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Eric Anderson (vocals, guitar, harmonica).
Recorded between 1964 & 1970. Includes liner notes by Billy Altman.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Vanguard Records' 1999 Eric Andersen compilation Violets of Dawn differs in only four tracks out of 18 from its 1970 compilation The Best of Eric Andersen, and the selection is marginally improved. (The major difference is that Violets of Dawn contains two rare tracks, "Boots of Blue" and "Rambler's Lament," from the 1964 compilation New Folks, Vol. 2.) The sound, remastered from the original analog tapes, is much improved. Like its similar predecessor, Violets of Dawn collects the most impressive efforts from Andersen's '60s Vanguard recordings, including the title track, "Thirsty Boots," "Close the Door Lightly When You Go," and "Come to My Bedside." It also traces Andersen's musical development from acoustic folk to folk-rock and country, a development that shadowed Bob Dylan's progression during the same period. And it stops short of the excellent work Andersen did with Blue River (1972) on Columbia and Be True to You (1975) on Arista. ~ William Ruhlmann

Professional Reviews

Dirty Linen (6-7/00, p.56) - "...A compilation of [his] early Vanguard work, spanning his more folk-based period of 1964 to 1970....merits a place on any folk completist's music shelf."