Talking with Eric Andersen: ‘If Time Were a Song’<\/title><\/p>\n<link rel=\"preload\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shareaholic.net\/assets\/pub\/shareaholic.js\" as=\"script\"\/>\n<meta name=\"shareaholic:site_id\" content=\"06f6b44375b461b004650e7d1dc86951\"\/><\/p>\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\"\/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Lato:wght@900&family=Roboto&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/css\/style2024mainB.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"\/>\n <\/head><body id=\"wp_automatic_ReadabilityBody\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"maintop\">\n \ufeff<\/p>\n<div class=\"box1\">\n <center><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\"> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box3\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/sides\/Menu2024.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/sides\/webhamburger65.jpg\" alt=\"New Jersey Stage Menu\" style=\"max-width:150px; min-width:120px;\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n?><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n \t \ufeff\ufeff<center>By <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/content\/author\/bob-makin\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/content\/author\/bob-makin\/\">Bob Makin<\/a><\/i><\/center> \n<\/p>\n<center>originally published: 09\/22\/2025<\/center><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22a.jpg\" height=\"400px;\" width=\"600px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEric Andersen will perform in support of his latest album, \u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d with this producer and longtime collaborator Steve <\/strong>Addabbo on Oct. 3 at Avenel Performing Arts Center in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township.<\/strong> PHOTO BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paolobrillo.eu\/\">PAOLO BRILLO<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\nGreenwich Village folk legend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericandersen.com\/\">Eric Andersen\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> new 17-song album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5wL7cTE0dO8BJrwntchiri?si=n7NNUZ9bS46mh0G93ECAOg\">\u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d<\/a> is his first new original songs since 2003. Featuring Lenny Kaye, Larry Campbell and others, the release of \u201cDance of Love and Death\u201d as a digital album, two-CD set and a double LP will be celebrated on Oct. 3 at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/avenelarts.com\/shows\/eric-andersen-acoustic-duo-with-steve-addabbo\">The Avenel Performing Arts Center<\/a> in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. Accompanied by producer Steve Addabbo, Eric will perform songs from the new album, as well as career-spanning signatures, such as \u201cThirsty Boots,\u201d \u201cBlue River,\u201d \u201cViolets of Dawn\u201d and \u201cClose the Door Lightly.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAside from his own classics, Eric has co-written songs with Lou Reed, Townes Van Zandt, Rick Danko, and Bob Weir. His songs have been covered by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Fairport Convention, Peter, Paul & Mary and many other artists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA full-length documentary about Eric, The Songpoet<\/em>, was released in 2019 and is available for streaming on PBS.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn 2022, a three-CD tribute to Eric was released featuring Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Richard Shindell, Linda Ronstadt, Happy Traum, Dom Flemons and many others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\nWhen Eric isn\u2019t busy with his own music, he produces other artists, including his talented wife, Inge Andersen, who frequently sings on his material.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEnjoy the following interview with this master of verse and song:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hDYxROnHfOo\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nBesides folk music, something you and Bob Dylan have in common is Robert Shelton\u2019s impact on your career. What is your most fond memory of Robert Shelton and why?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nRobert Shelton, the music critic from the New York Times, was my first real supporter. I was very fond of him. He was friendly and almost transcendently insightful and wise. He introduced me to the people at Broadside magazine, where singer-songwriters the likes of Ochs, Paxton, La Farge, Dylan and me could see our songs in print. \u2018Woody\u2019s Children\u2019 they called us. Very exciting for people starting out who were inventing a new musical genre. He championed the artistic causes of me and Bob Dylan especially, and it helped us both get our first record contracts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWas Phil Ochs a good friend and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWhen I hit the Village scene in \u201964, Phil met me through Robert Shelton and basically adopted me. He was a friend, a songwriting mentor and guide who showed me the ropes and introduced me to everybody on the streets — Fred Neil, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk,\u00a0Tim Hardin, Bob Dylan, and Peter La Farge. It turned out, we all were the first handful of singer songwriters who invented an entirely new musical genre following along the lines of Woody Guthrie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<\/div>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhether business wise or creatively, who had the biggest influence and impact on your career, how and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLots of people. Phil Ochs, Robert Shelton. Brian Epstein, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Kingston Trio, Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hank Williams, Otis Redding, Rick Nelson. List goes on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow and why has your Norwegian heritage influenced your work?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNothing in a direct way. Maybe gave me a cool perspective.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nGiven the work you did in the 1960s with civil rights, how does the current political climate make you feel?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI live in the Netherlands. So I can only report. Several countries adjoining and near us in Europe are bordering\u00a0authoritarian states who have destroyed press and wage endless war with Ukraine — a country and border also close in Europe. Many see the situation happening in the U.S. to those other authoritarian countries near them — the U.S. as an evolving police state. From my recent travels here, people seem to go on living as if everything is normal. But underneath, some confess they feel afraid and have a feeling of hopelessness with the situation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\nIn light of that political climate, what is your hope for the future?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe hope and pray the U.S. and Europe or the world do not become fascist dictatorships. We prefer our freedom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat is your most fond memory of the Festival Express Tour and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt was like riding a \u2018Drunken Boat\u2019 by train through beautiful Canada playing shows for some great enthusiastic audiences, hearing some great music — The Band, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin Band, Ian & Sylvia and others — and making some amazing new friends. I was the only acoustic act on the stage of rock bands. Rick Danko was there whom I later worked and toured with in our trio Danko, Fjeld, Andersen. Janis Joplin was on the train and became one of my best friends. The world collapsed the day she died.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YdCawosNP6A\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nHow and when did you work with Bob Dylan throughout your career, what did you enjoy most about working with him and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBob was — and remains — a serious, word adventuring, exploring, no-bullshit, high-wire poetical artist. Happy to have been his friend. When we meet, we somehow always talk about writing. He liked \u2018Violets of Dawn\u2019 a lot and recorded \u2018Thirsty Boots.\u2019 When he covered my song, he didn’t mess with it or change music or lyrics like so many other cover artists have done to my songs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DSqq8ncb-p4\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nDid you ever have a conversation with Dylan about poetry? If so, who was the poet you both had most in common as an influence and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nYes, all the time. I recited \u2018Violets of Dawn\u2019 to him at the Kettle of Fish Bar. Later, he recited \u2018Visions of Johanna\u2019 at a table by the wall. We both connected through Rimbaud, other French poets, Kerouac and Beat writers and Beat poets. We were the only ones who read this stuff.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nIt<\/strong>\u2019s interesting that you wrote four songs with Townes Van Zandt, who Dylan requested to write songs with, but Townes turned him down. How did you come to write with Townes, which songs did you write together, and what became of those songs?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTownes and I played shows together and roomed together on tours or when I stayed with him with his family in Austin or Nashville. In New York in my basement apartment, we wrote four songs from some shared observations and experiences we had collected together on the road or simply out of our heads. We sat around, and the words and music poured forth. I scribbled lyrics, and we made a cassette. Then it disappeared. It turned up years later with some friends in Albuquerque, NM. I reissued it and recorded the songs \u2018The Meadowlark,\u2019 \u2018The Road,\u2019 \u2018Night Train,\u2019 and \u2018The Blue March (The Iris)\u2019 on an album called \u2018You Can\u2019t Relive the Past.\u2019 The title was from a song I co-wrote\u00a0with the late Lou Reed in Norway and soon afterwards recorded in New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHaving contributed an essay to \u2018The Rolling Stone Book of Beat,\u2019 released the double CD, \u2018Beat Avenue,\u2019 and given your close association with Beat poets, as well as Patti Smith, have you ever published your own book of poetry? If not, do you plan to?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA good question, indeed. Thank you. No, I have no plans for such a book. Songwriting is not poetry writing.\u00a0Poems don’t have choruses.\u00a0One form dances inside a cloak of music and sound and the other dances alone in silence. But great songs and writing\u00a0employs poetical poise and grace and sense of lyrical economy. My other writing is in prose (prose poetry?) a la Baudelaire. But Homer was meant to be sung with a lyre.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22b.jpg\" height=\"400px;\" width=\"600px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nStream \u2018The Songpoet,\u2019 a documentary about Eric Andersen on demand through 2027. PHOTO BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paolobrillo.eu\/\">PAOLO BRILLO<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about PBS \u2018The Songpoet\u2019 documentary?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nSeeing all the people I ran across on the early part of the journey. I had very little to do with the film other than read some voice overs, and am honored and graced it will continue running on PBS on-demand until 2027. Director Paul Lamont did an exemplary job.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\n\u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 is your first album in five years and first collection of all new material since 2003. What do you like most about the album and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt’s actually the first new album outside of my German-released European writer’s albums of Albert Camus, Henrich, B\u00f6ll and Lord Byron in 14 years. So in a sense, it is a rag-tag collection of time — a sort of truth and love-song double-album of 17 new and recent songs. All recorded in New York. I like it because it is raw, direct, simply played and produced — and soulful singing! With some of my best songs. Writers have said it’s my best work since albums \u2018Blue River\u2019 <\/em>(1972) and \u2018Ghosts Upon the Road\u2019 <\/em>(1989).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22c.jpg\" height=\"432px;\" width=\"433px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nProduced by longtime collaborator Steve Addabbo, Eric Anderson\u2019s latest album features Larry Campbell on guitar, mandolin and fiddle, Tony Garnier on bass, and his wife wife, Inge Andersen, on harmony vocals. ARTWORK BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginemediaconcepts.com\/\">ROSE GARGIULO<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat did you like most about Steve Addabbo<\/strong>\u2019s production and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe production is simple and direct. But modern with an edge. No extras, frills or bells or whistles and includes some great players like Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, fiddle), Tony Garnier (bass), Steve Addabbo (electric guitar), the angelic harmonies of Inge Andersen,\u00a0and four outstanding violinists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhy did you want Steve to produce \u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 and collaborate with you on the subsequent tour?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe\u2019re close musical collaborators and friends to boot. He produced my albums. He always knows where the songs are going so we tour live too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDo you know yet how you<\/strong>\u2019ll follow \u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 as either a singer-songwriter, producer or in some other role?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m working on a new album of originals called \u2018Thief of Time\u2019 and an album of gypsy poems by Spanish poet Garcia Lorca, \u2018Under the blood-red moon: The Deep Songs of Garcia Lorca.\u2019 <\/em>I’m writing original songs out of his great verse and poems.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wC0FGfMwB_s\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nWhat is your signature and\/or most requested song, and do you ever get tired of playing it?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThirsty Boots,\u201d \u201cBlue River,\u201d \u201cViolets of Dawn\u201d and \u201cClose the Door Lightly.\u201d I sing them all. It’s almost like singing Time itself if Time were a song.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nOut of all the recordings by other artists of your songs, which is your favorite and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThere are many nice ones, but as I mentioned, Bob Dylan\u2019s \u2018Thirsty Boots.\u2019 Also, Rick Nelson\u2019s \u2018Violets of Dawn,\u2019 The Dillards\u2019 \u2018Close the Door Lightly,\u2019 Linda Ronstadt\u2019s \u2018I Ain\u2019t Always Been Faithful.\u2019 I am proud of and impressed with many great versions of my songs on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6Z3ohBfOICPHZgorI23Wwr\">\u2018Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen.\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nOut of everything you<\/strong>\u2019ve done throughout an illustrious 60-year career, what is your greatest accomplishment and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTo be blessed to be born an artist and to have written and recorded songs that have stood the test of time. Thirty-five albums. That I can still sing and perform songs I wrote over 60 years ago, like \u2018Come to My Bedside,\u2019 \u2018Thirsty Boots,\u2019 \u2018Violets of Dawn,\u2019\u00a0\u2018Ghosts upon the Road\u2019 — songs that still seem as fresh and relevant now as they were when I first wrote them.\u00a0It\u2019s important to have them because writers and musicians must sing and write their creations and work and can never retire. You try and write quality material so your songs can live beyond you — and last in the long run. For that, I am grateful that my work has always carried me forward.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt was also an honor to be recognized and managed by Beatles\u2019 manager Brian Epstein for that spell shortly before he died. Meeting The Beatles in London with Brian the week \u2018Sgt. Pepper\u2019 came out was an indelible memory. And so was the excellent hash John Lennon always thoughtfully provided us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nIs there anything I didn<\/strong>\u2019t ask on which you would like to comment?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI wrote a brand new song called \u2018Stand Up (and Resist)\u2019 — a song of resistance addressing the wrongs, inhumanities, intolerance, and injustice surrounding our scene and happening everywhere around us in these troubled nervous times and days.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nComing in January, I will be living in the City of Water, Venice, Italy, writing for a month and then touring Holland in February. Next April and May, I will return to tour the States.\u00a0Summer ’26, I plan to do music festivals in Italy. Always keeping busy writing, singing and performing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBob Makin has produced Makin Waves\u00a0since 1988. Follow Makin Waves\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/makinwavescolumn\">on Facebook<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/makinwavescolumn\/\">Instagram<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Contact Bob at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#204d414b494e57415645531614605941484f4f0e434f4d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr\/>\nNew Jersey Stage is proud to be the home of Bob Makin’s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/makinwaves\/index.php\">Makin Waves<\/a> column since 2017. His Song of the Week column comes out every Friday. He also writes an Album of the Month and Interview of the Month as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center><\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<center\/><\/div>\n<\/body><\/div>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newjerseystage.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking with Eric Andersen: ‘If Time Were a Song’ \ufeff ?> \ufeff\ufeffBy Bob Makin originally published: 09\/22\/2025 Eric Andersen will perform in support of his latest album, \u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d with this producer and longtime collaborator Steve Addabbo on Oct. 3 at Avenel Performing Arts Center in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. 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\nTalking with Eric Andersen: ‘If Time Were a Song’<\/title><\/p>\n<link rel=\"preload\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shareaholic.net\/assets\/pub\/shareaholic.js\" as=\"script\"\/>\n<meta name=\"shareaholic:site_id\" content=\"06f6b44375b461b004650e7d1dc86951\"\/><\/p>\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\"\/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Lato:wght@900&family=Roboto&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/css\/style2024mainB.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"\/>\n <\/head><body id=\"wp_automatic_ReadabilityBody\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"maintop\">\n \ufeff<\/p>\n<div class=\"box1\">\n <center><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\"> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"box3\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/sides\/Menu2024.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/sides\/webhamburger65.jpg\" alt=\"New Jersey Stage Menu\" style=\"max-width:150px; min-width:120px;\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n?><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n \t \ufeff\ufeff<center>By <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/content\/author\/bob-makin\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/content\/author\/bob-makin\/\">Bob Makin<\/a><\/i><\/center> \n<\/p>\n<center>originally published: 09\/22\/2025<\/center><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22a.jpg\" height=\"400px;\" width=\"600px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEric Andersen will perform in support of his latest album, \u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d with this producer and longtime collaborator Steve <\/strong>Addabbo on Oct. 3 at Avenel Performing Arts Center in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township.<\/strong> PHOTO BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paolobrillo.eu\/\">PAOLO BRILLO<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\nGreenwich Village folk legend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericandersen.com\/\">Eric Andersen\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> new 17-song album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5wL7cTE0dO8BJrwntchiri?si=n7NNUZ9bS46mh0G93ECAOg\">\u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d<\/a> is his first new original songs since 2003. Featuring Lenny Kaye, Larry Campbell and others, the release of \u201cDance of Love and Death\u201d as a digital album, two-CD set and a double LP will be celebrated on Oct. 3 at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/avenelarts.com\/shows\/eric-andersen-acoustic-duo-with-steve-addabbo\">The Avenel Performing Arts Center<\/a> in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. Accompanied by producer Steve Addabbo, Eric will perform songs from the new album, as well as career-spanning signatures, such as \u201cThirsty Boots,\u201d \u201cBlue River,\u201d \u201cViolets of Dawn\u201d and \u201cClose the Door Lightly.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAside from his own classics, Eric has co-written songs with Lou Reed, Townes Van Zandt, Rick Danko, and Bob Weir. His songs have been covered by Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Fairport Convention, Peter, Paul & Mary and many other artists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA full-length documentary about Eric, The Songpoet<\/em>, was released in 2019 and is available for streaming on PBS.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn 2022, a three-CD tribute to Eric was released featuring Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Richard Shindell, Linda Ronstadt, Happy Traum, Dom Flemons and many others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\nWhen Eric isn\u2019t busy with his own music, he produces other artists, including his talented wife, Inge Andersen, who frequently sings on his material.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEnjoy the following interview with this master of verse and song:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hDYxROnHfOo\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nBesides folk music, something you and Bob Dylan have in common is Robert Shelton\u2019s impact on your career. What is your most fond memory of Robert Shelton and why?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nRobert Shelton, the music critic from the New York Times, was my first real supporter. I was very fond of him. He was friendly and almost transcendently insightful and wise. He introduced me to the people at Broadside magazine, where singer-songwriters the likes of Ochs, Paxton, La Farge, Dylan and me could see our songs in print. \u2018Woody\u2019s Children\u2019 they called us. Very exciting for people starting out who were inventing a new musical genre. He championed the artistic causes of me and Bob Dylan especially, and it helped us both get our first record contracts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWas Phil Ochs a good friend and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWhen I hit the Village scene in \u201964, Phil met me through Robert Shelton and basically adopted me. He was a friend, a songwriting mentor and guide who showed me the ropes and introduced me to everybody on the streets — Fred Neil, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk,\u00a0Tim Hardin, Bob Dylan, and Peter La Farge. It turned out, we all were the first handful of singer songwriters who invented an entirely new musical genre following along the lines of Woody Guthrie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<\/div>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhether business wise or creatively, who had the biggest influence and impact on your career, how and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLots of people. Phil Ochs, Robert Shelton. Brian Epstein, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Kingston Trio, Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hank Williams, Otis Redding, Rick Nelson. List goes on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow and why has your Norwegian heritage influenced your work?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNothing in a direct way. Maybe gave me a cool perspective.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nGiven the work you did in the 1960s with civil rights, how does the current political climate make you feel?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI live in the Netherlands. So I can only report. Several countries adjoining and near us in Europe are bordering\u00a0authoritarian states who have destroyed press and wage endless war with Ukraine — a country and border also close in Europe. Many see the situation happening in the U.S. to those other authoritarian countries near them — the U.S. as an evolving police state. From my recent travels here, people seem to go on living as if everything is normal. But underneath, some confess they feel afraid and have a feeling of hopelessness with the situation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\nIn light of that political climate, what is your hope for the future?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe hope and pray the U.S. and Europe or the world do not become fascist dictatorships. We prefer our freedom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat is your most fond memory of the Festival Express Tour and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt was like riding a \u2018Drunken Boat\u2019 by train through beautiful Canada playing shows for some great enthusiastic audiences, hearing some great music — The Band, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin Band, Ian & Sylvia and others — and making some amazing new friends. I was the only acoustic act on the stage of rock bands. Rick Danko was there whom I later worked and toured with in our trio Danko, Fjeld, Andersen. Janis Joplin was on the train and became one of my best friends. The world collapsed the day she died.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YdCawosNP6A\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nHow and when did you work with Bob Dylan throughout your career, what did you enjoy most about working with him and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBob was — and remains — a serious, word adventuring, exploring, no-bullshit, high-wire poetical artist. Happy to have been his friend. When we meet, we somehow always talk about writing. He liked \u2018Violets of Dawn\u2019 a lot and recorded \u2018Thirsty Boots.\u2019 When he covered my song, he didn’t mess with it or change music or lyrics like so many other cover artists have done to my songs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DSqq8ncb-p4\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nDid you ever have a conversation with Dylan about poetry? If so, who was the poet you both had most in common as an influence and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nYes, all the time. I recited \u2018Violets of Dawn\u2019 to him at the Kettle of Fish Bar. Later, he recited \u2018Visions of Johanna\u2019 at a table by the wall. We both connected through Rimbaud, other French poets, Kerouac and Beat writers and Beat poets. We were the only ones who read this stuff.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nIt<\/strong>\u2019s interesting that you wrote four songs with Townes Van Zandt, who Dylan requested to write songs with, but Townes turned him down. How did you come to write with Townes, which songs did you write together, and what became of those songs?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTownes and I played shows together and roomed together on tours or when I stayed with him with his family in Austin or Nashville. In New York in my basement apartment, we wrote four songs from some shared observations and experiences we had collected together on the road or simply out of our heads. We sat around, and the words and music poured forth. I scribbled lyrics, and we made a cassette. Then it disappeared. It turned up years later with some friends in Albuquerque, NM. I reissued it and recorded the songs \u2018The Meadowlark,\u2019 \u2018The Road,\u2019 \u2018Night Train,\u2019 and \u2018The Blue March (The Iris)\u2019 on an album called \u2018You Can\u2019t Relive the Past.\u2019 The title was from a song I co-wrote\u00a0with the late Lou Reed in Norway and soon afterwards recorded in New York.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nHaving contributed an essay to \u2018The Rolling Stone Book of Beat,\u2019 released the double CD, \u2018Beat Avenue,\u2019 and given your close association with Beat poets, as well as Patti Smith, have you ever published your own book of poetry? If not, do you plan to?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA good question, indeed. Thank you. No, I have no plans for such a book. Songwriting is not poetry writing.\u00a0Poems don’t have choruses.\u00a0One form dances inside a cloak of music and sound and the other dances alone in silence. But great songs and writing\u00a0employs poetical poise and grace and sense of lyrical economy. My other writing is in prose (prose poetry?) a la Baudelaire. But Homer was meant to be sung with a lyre.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22b.jpg\" height=\"400px;\" width=\"600px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nStream \u2018The Songpoet,\u2019 a documentary about Eric Andersen on demand through 2027. PHOTO BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paolobrillo.eu\/\">PAOLO BRILLO<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat do you enjoy most about PBS \u2018The Songpoet\u2019 documentary?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nSeeing all the people I ran across on the early part of the journey. I had very little to do with the film other than read some voice overs, and am honored and graced it will continue running on PBS on-demand until 2027. Director Paul Lamont did an exemplary job.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center\/><center><\/p>\n<h4>Please support the advertisers at New Jersey Stage! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/advertise\">Want info on how to advertise? Click here<\/u><\/a><\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainarticle\">\n<hr\/>\n\u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 is your first album in five years and first collection of all new material since 2003. What do you like most about the album and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt’s actually the first new album outside of my German-released European writer’s albums of Albert Camus, Henrich, B\u00f6ll and Lord Byron in 14 years. So in a sense, it is a rag-tag collection of time — a sort of truth and love-song double-album of 17 new and recent songs. All recorded in New York. I like it because it is raw, direct, simply played and produced — and soulful singing! With some of my best songs. Writers have said it’s my best work since albums \u2018Blue River\u2019 <\/em>(1972) and \u2018Ghosts Upon the Road\u2019 <\/em>(1989).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/events2025\/waves-Sep22c.jpg\" height=\"432px;\" width=\"433px"\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nProduced by longtime collaborator Steve Addabbo, Eric Anderson\u2019s latest album features Larry Campbell on guitar, mandolin and fiddle, Tony Garnier on bass, and his wife wife, Inge Andersen, on harmony vocals. ARTWORK BY <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imaginemediaconcepts.com\/\">ROSE GARGIULO<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat did you like most about Steve Addabbo<\/strong>\u2019s production and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe production is simple and direct. But modern with an edge. No extras, frills or bells or whistles and includes some great players like Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, fiddle), Tony Garnier (bass), Steve Addabbo (electric guitar), the angelic harmonies of Inge Andersen,\u00a0and four outstanding violinists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhy did you want Steve to produce \u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 and collaborate with you on the subsequent tour?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe\u2019re close musical collaborators and friends to boot. He produced my albums. He always knows where the songs are going so we tour live too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDo you know yet how you<\/strong>\u2019ll follow \u2018Dance of Love and Death\u2019 as either a singer-songwriter, producer or in some other role?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m working on a new album of originals called \u2018Thief of Time\u2019 and an album of gypsy poems by Spanish poet Garcia Lorca, \u2018Under the blood-red moon: The Deep Songs of Garcia Lorca.\u2019 <\/em>I’m writing original songs out of his great verse and poems.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wC0FGfMwB_s\" width=\"100%\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nWhat is your signature and\/or most requested song, and do you ever get tired of playing it?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThirsty Boots,\u201d \u201cBlue River,\u201d \u201cViolets of Dawn\u201d and \u201cClose the Door Lightly.\u201d I sing them all. It’s almost like singing Time itself if Time were a song.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nOut of all the recordings by other artists of your songs, which is your favorite and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThere are many nice ones, but as I mentioned, Bob Dylan\u2019s \u2018Thirsty Boots.\u2019 Also, Rick Nelson\u2019s \u2018Violets of Dawn,\u2019 The Dillards\u2019 \u2018Close the Door Lightly,\u2019 Linda Ronstadt\u2019s \u2018I Ain\u2019t Always Been Faithful.\u2019 I am proud of and impressed with many great versions of my songs on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6Z3ohBfOICPHZgorI23Wwr\">\u2018Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen.\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nOut of everything you<\/strong>\u2019ve done throughout an illustrious 60-year career, what is your greatest accomplishment and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTo be blessed to be born an artist and to have written and recorded songs that have stood the test of time. Thirty-five albums. That I can still sing and perform songs I wrote over 60 years ago, like \u2018Come to My Bedside,\u2019 \u2018Thirsty Boots,\u2019 \u2018Violets of Dawn,\u2019\u00a0\u2018Ghosts upon the Road\u2019 — songs that still seem as fresh and relevant now as they were when I first wrote them.\u00a0It\u2019s important to have them because writers and musicians must sing and write their creations and work and can never retire. You try and write quality material so your songs can live beyond you — and last in the long run. For that, I am grateful that my work has always carried me forward.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt was also an honor to be recognized and managed by Beatles\u2019 manager Brian Epstein for that spell shortly before he died. Meeting The Beatles in London with Brian the week \u2018Sgt. Pepper\u2019 came out was an indelible memory. And so was the excellent hash John Lennon always thoughtfully provided us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nIs there anything I didn<\/strong>\u2019t ask on which you would like to comment?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI wrote a brand new song called \u2018Stand Up (and Resist)\u2019 — a song of resistance addressing the wrongs, inhumanities, intolerance, and injustice surrounding our scene and happening everywhere around us in these troubled nervous times and days.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nComing in January, I will be living in the City of Water, Venice, Italy, writing for a month and then touring Holland in February. Next April and May, I will return to tour the States.\u00a0Summer ’26, I plan to do music festivals in Italy. Always keeping busy writing, singing and performing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBob Makin has produced Makin Waves\u00a0since 1988. Follow Makin Waves\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/makinwavescolumn\">on Facebook<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/makinwavescolumn\/\">Instagram<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Contact Bob at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#204d414b494e57415645531614605941484f4f0e434f4d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr\/>\nNew Jersey Stage is proud to be the home of Bob Makin’s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseystage.com\/makinwaves\/index.php\">Makin Waves<\/a> column since 2017. His Song of the Week column comes out every Friday. He also writes an Album of the Month and Interview of the Month as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<center><\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<center\/><\/div>\n<\/body><\/div>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newjerseystage.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking with Eric Andersen: ‘If Time Were a Song’ \ufeff ?> \ufeff\ufeffBy Bob Makin originally published: 09\/22\/2025 Eric Andersen will perform in support of his latest album, \u201cDance of Love and Death,\u201d with this producer and longtime collaborator Steve Addabbo on Oct. 3 at Avenel Performing Arts Center in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township. 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