ERIC VON SCHMIDT Who Knocked the Brains Out of the Sky

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ERIC VON SCHMIDT

WHO KNOCKED THE BRAINS OUT OF THE SKY

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Eric von Schmidt was an influential folk-blues guitarist on the Cambridge, Massachusetts folk music scene in the late fifties and the sixties. Eric was born May 28, 1931, the son of Harold von Schmidt, who illustrated western stories for the Saturday Evening Post. Eric grew up in Westport, Connecticut and planned to follow in his father's footsteps as an artist at an early age. While he was in high school he first heard Ledbelly on the radio and was transformed by the experience. He bought a guitar, learned Ledbelly's songs, and also absorbed the influence of Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Josh White, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Richard Dyer-Bennet, and John Jacob Niles. Eric's travels in New York city, Mississippi, the Caribbean, and the Library of Congress in Washington contributed to his musical education. He spent time in the army from 1952 to 1954, and in 1955 he won a Fulbright scholarship to spend a year painting in Italy. He taught at Sarasota School of Art in Florida for a while, then in the summer of 1957 he moved to Cambridge and discovered the bubbling folk music scene. His first solo album was The Folk Blues of Eric von Schmidt in 1963. He painted dozens of album covers for Joan Baez, Odetta, John Renbourn, and many other folk musicians. In June, 2000, he was presented with the the ASCAP Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He died February 2, 2007, at the age of 75.

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