Andrew Calhoun is an American folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer/songwriter. He was inspired to become a musician when his mother brought home a couple of her hippie

Hippie

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 students who played guitar. Early influences include Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

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, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

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, John Prine

John Prine

John Prine is an American country/folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a recording artist and live performer since the early 1970s.-Biography:...

, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

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, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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, Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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, C.S. Lewis and Mississippi John Hurt

Mississippi John Hurt

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. In 1992, he founded the artists cooperative record label Waterbug Records

Waterbug Records

Waterbug Records is a small independent record label based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois specializing in singer-songwriters and traditional folk musicians who do original research. The label was founded as an artist cooperative label in 1992 by singer-songwriter Andrew Calhoun. Calhoun described the...

. His performances include works by various songwriters and poets, Scots ballads in original translations from dialect, African American sacred songs, and his own varied songbook.

Discography

• Gates of Love (1980, Flying Fish
  Flying Fish Records
  Flying Fish Records was a Chicago-based eclectic blues and country record label. It was founded in 1974 by Bruce Kaplan, former president of the University of Chicago's Folklore Society....
  
  –out of print)
• Walk Me to the War (1989, Flying Fish–out of print)
• Water Street (1990, Hogeye–out of print)
• Hope (1993, Waterbug)
• Phoenix Envy (1996, Waterbug)
• Where Blue Meets Blue (1999, Waterbug)
• Tiger Tattoo (2003, Waterbug)
• Telfer's Cows: Folk Ballads of Scotland (2004, Waterbug)
• Shadow of a Wing (2004, Waterbug)
• Staring at the Sun (Songs 1973-1981) (2005, Waterbug)
• Bound To Go: African-American Spirituals and Secular Folk Songs (2008, Waterbug)

External links

• Official Web Site