By 1969, folks like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez had been recording in Nashville for some time, finding the country-music session musicians to be among the best for helping craft the sound they were looking for. Like all artists in Dylan’s shadow, Eric Andersen went to Nashville to hear what David Briggs, Kenney Buttrey, and Charlie McCoy could do for his sound, and the result was an album that’s less a "country" dream than that of a singer/songwriter finding his footing in the mellow sounds that would fit him best come 1972’s Blue River album. Here, Andersen’s cover of Otis Redding’s “(Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay” is pleasant, and his take on Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues” is well done, but it’s “Deborah, I Love You” (said to be for Debbie Green, his wife and frequent second guitarist), “Eyes Gently Rolling," and “Waves of Freedom” that show the man who'd emerge from the confusion of the '60s as a solid, focused artist in the '70s.