. Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt - The Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt

 

.                                          Dick Farina -Blind Boy Grunt (Dylan)- Eric Von Schidt

 Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 -- February 2, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Farina, among many others.

 Eric von Schmidt, guitar and vocals, with Geoff Muldaur, guitar; Robert L. Jones, guitar and vocals; and Fritz Richmond, washtub bass.

A1 Crow Jane 0:00 A2 Gulf Coast Blues 1:48 A3 Brave Wolfe 6:16 A4 Junco Partner 10:23 A5 De Kalb Blues 12:53 A6 Lolita 15:26 B1 Champagne Don't Hurt Me. Baby 19:09 B2 Buffalo Skinners 22:10 B3 Jack O' Diamonds 26:15 B4 He Was A Friend Of Mine 27:46 B5 Cocoa Beach Blues 30:03 B6 Down On Me 32:32 B7 Titanic 35:19

 

 Eric was also a talented painter, and it was this that became the center of his creative life. Bob Dylan absorbed much of Eric's encyclopedic knowledge of American folk, country and blues, and one of Eric's LPs is in the cover photograph of Bob's 'Bringing It All Back Home' album. Dylan once wrote of Eric von Schmidt, "For here is a man who can sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off the tire. He can separate the men from the boys and the note from the noise. The bridle from the saddle and the cow from the cattle. He can play the tune of the moon. The why of the sky and the commotion from the ocean. Yes he can."