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.

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.

Eric Andersen American singer-songwriter

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 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 became a member of the group Danko/Fjeld/Andersen.

<i>Blue River</i> (album) 1972 studio album by Eric Andersen

Blue River is the 1972 album from folk rock musician Eric Andersen. The album was recorded in Nashville. Guest musician Joni Mitchell contributes vocals on the title track "Blue River". The album was reissued in 1999 by Columbia Legacy with two extra tracks.

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

Leon Russell American singer-songwriter

Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound.

David Paul Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. He played his first recording session at the age of 14 and has gone on to add keyboards to a plethora of pop, rock, and country artists, as well as recording hundreds of corporate commercials.

Rick Danko Canadian multi-instrumentalist

Richard Clare Danko was a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of The Band.

Production

Greg Calbi American mastering engineer

Greg Calbi is an American mastering engineer.

David Gahr was an American photographer. He was born in Milwaukee to Russian immigrant parents. He studied economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and he served in the infantry in Europe in World War II. He was one of "the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians of the 1960s and beyond."

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