Cliff Eberhardt (born January 7, 1954, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is an American

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singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the Fast Folk Music Cooperative in New York City. Eberhardt joined

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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

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songs, ''All Wood and Doors'', with fellow musician

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on Beechwood Recordings. Also that year, he contributed a cover to ''Nod to Bob II'', a Red House compilation honoring

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on his 70th birthday.

Early life

Eberhardt was born on January 7, 1954, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, near

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. 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

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coffeehouses at the time were

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and

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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'' (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

: * ''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

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