Stages: The Lost Album

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Stages: The Lost Album
Eric andersen stages.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1991
RecordedDecember 1972 – February 1973
Genre Folk rock
Length57:51
Label Columbia
Producer Norbert Putnam, Eric Andersen, Steve Addabbo
Eric Andersen chronology
Blue River
(1972)
Stages: The Lost Album
(1991)
Be True to You
(1975)
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Stages is an album by folk rock musician Eric Andersen. The album was recorded in late 1972 and early 1973, as the intended follow-up to Andersen's successful Blue River album, but before it could be released, the master tapes were somehow lost in the Columbia vaults. It wasn't until 1990 that the tapes were discovered, at which time the album was finally released. In addition to the original 1972–73 recordings, Andersen included three newly recorded songs. Guest musicians from the 1973–73 sessions included Leon Russell on organ, piano and guitar, Rick Danko on bass and background vocals, and Garth Hudson on accordion, with Dan Fogelberg and Joan Baez supplying background vocals. Shawn Colvin was a guest vocalist on the 1990 sessions.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Baby, I'm Lonesome" (Andersen) – 3:17
  2. "Moonchild River Song" (Andersen) – 4:20
  3. "Can't Get You Out of My Life" (Andersen) – 2:54
  4. "Woman, She Was Gentle" (Andersen) – 4:18
  5. "Time Run Like a Freight Train" (Andersen) – 8:29
  6. "It's Been a Long Time" (Andersen) – 3:21
  7. "Wild Crow Blues" (Andersen) – 6:10
  8. "Be True to You" (Andersen) – 3:07
  9. "I Love to Sing My Ballad, Mama" (Andersen) – 2:56
  10. "Dream to Rimbaud" (Andersen) - 6:23
  11. "Make It Last (Angel in the Wind) (Andersen) - 4:51 ~
  12. "Lie with Me" (Andersen) - 3:50 ~
  13. "Soul of My Song" (Andersen, Jonas Fjeld, Willie Nile, Ole Paus) - 3:55 ~

~ Recorded in 1990 for CD release

Personnel

Production

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