Cliff Eberhardt (born January 7, 1954, in
Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is an American
folk singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the
Fast Folk Music Cooperative in New York City. Eberhardt joined
Red House Records in 1997 and has recorded five albums for the label, the most recent in 2009, ''500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions''.
In 2011, he released an acoustic album of
Doors songs, ''All Wood and Doors'', with fellow musician
James Lee Stanley on Beechwood Recordings. Also that year, he contributed a cover to ''Nod to Bob II'', a Red House compilation honoring
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
on his 70th birthday.
Early life
Eberhardt was born on January 7, 1954, in
Berwyn, Pennsylvania, near
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
. His family had a musical background, and he began playing guitar at an early age. At 15, he and his brother Geoff began touring as a duo. In 1976, he moved to
Carbondale, Illinois, attracted by the local music scene, spent some time in Colorado, and then in 1978 relocated to New York City, where he became part of the second folk and acoustic music revival. Among the other artists performing in
Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with ...
coffeehouses at the time were
John Gorka,
Shawn Colvin,
Lucy Kaplansky and
David Massengill.
Discography
Albums
* ''The Long Road'' (1990)
* ''Now You Are My Home'' (1993)
* ''Mona Lisa Cafe'' (1995)
* ''Twelve Songs of Good and Evil'' (1997)
* ''Borders'' (1999)
* ''School for Love'' (2002)
* ''
The High Above and the Down Below
''The High Above and the Down Below'' is the seventh studio album by contemporary folk singer–songwriter Cliff Eberhardt. It was released on Red House Records on April 10, 2007. It is Eberhardt's first album in five years and follows a lengthy ...
'' (2007)
* ''500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions'' (2009)
* ''Shrew Songs: Music for The Taming of the Shrew'' (2012)
* ''18 Essential Songs 1990 - 2009'' (2020)
* ''Knew Things'' (2021)
;with
James Lee Stanley:
* ''All Wood and Doors'' (2011)
Compilation albums
* ''A Nod to Bob 2: An Artist's Tribute to Bob Dylan'' (2011) (Track 11: "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues")
Singles
* "The Long Road'" (1990)
References
1954 births
Living people
People from Chester County, Pennsylvania
American folk guitarists
American male guitarists
American male singer-songwriters
Fast Folk artists
Singer-songwriters from Pennsylvania
Windham Hill Records artists
Guitarists from Pennsylvania
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
Red House Records artists
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