“I’m running around out there like a little athlete singing my ass off. I’ve done that with an asthmatic condition. That tells you something about the power of music.” The legendary musician talks about his new album, his estimable legacy, and more. (His North American tour kicks off this weekend, June 29, in Costa Mesa, CA.)
Eric Burdon figures he got a rude awakening from life pretty early – the day he was born. It was May 11, 1941, in Newcastle upon Tyne. England was at war with Germany.
“The hospital I was born in was hit by high-intensity bombs from the Luftwaffe, flying off from occupied Finland,” he recalls, in a phone interview from his home in Joshua Tree, California. “So knock, knock. Wake up, Eric! Welcome to the world.”
One could argue that Burdon, who is touring behind his recent bluesy, soulful and lyrically topical album ’Til Your River Runs Dry, has had a certain adversarial relationship with life ever since. His first band had the impolite, confrontational name of the Animals. Initially part of the great British Invasion of America in 1964, their biggest hits were about living amid poverty and degradation in New Orleans (“The House of the Rising Sun,” an adaptation of a folk ballad) and the fear of getting old and gray in a dirty industrial town (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil’s “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”).
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