# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-von-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:41.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-von-schmidt"
name: "Eric Von Schmidt"
slug: "eric-von-schmidt"
description: "Eric von Schmidt was an American folk musician and painter. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading specialist in country blues in Cambridge at the time, the counterpart of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years."
tagline: "American musician (1931-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Eric_Von_Schmidt.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-05-28"
deathDate: "2007-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.306451612903226
  historical:           9.425236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Eric-Von-Schmidt-148928271848926"
    handle:    "Eric-Von-Schmidt-148928271848926"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "اريك فون شميت"
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    title: "اریک وان اشمیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Von_Schmidt"
    title: "Eric Von Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Von_Schmidt"
    title: "Eric Von Schmidt"
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    title: "Eric Von Schmidt"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Von_Schmidt"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump