Blue River is an album by folk rock musician Eric Andersen, released in 1972.

[10] Joni Mitchell contributes vocals on the title track, "Blue River".

[3] No Depression called the album's sound "subtle and incandescent," writing that producer Norbert Putnam "crafted a sound that was both sensual and spacious — at times reminiscent of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks — and always attentive to the languid melodies and sometimes frightening intimacy of Andersen’s lyrics.

"[5] The Los Angeles Times deemed it "a delicately melodic, bittersweetly introspective song cycle that found its place within the Carole King-James Taylor-Joni Mitchell-Jackson Browne school of sensitive pop.

"[11] ~* = Bonus Track on CD Release (recorded during album sessions)