The Innocent Age

by Dan Fogelberg

The Innocent Age cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 August 1981
  • Label: Full Moon
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:20:10
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed as a thematic double-LP, 'The Innocent Age' explores concepts of lost youth, fleeting time, and nostalgia inspired by Thomas Wolfe's novel 'Of Time and the River'. It achieved massive commercial success, yielding several enduring radio hits and firmly establishing the artist as a defining voice of the era's mellow adult contemporary landscape.

Genres

Descriptors: ballad, melodic, acoustic, folk, male-vocals, polished

Tracklist

  1. Nexus (6:03)
  2. The Innocent Age (4:18)
  3. The Sand And The Foam (4:18)
  4. In The Passage (6:25)
  5. Lost In The Sun (3:56)
  6. Run for the Roses (4:18)
  7. Leader of the Band / Washington Post March (4:48)
  8. Same Old Lang Syne (5:19)
  9. Stolen Moments (3:12)
  10. The Lion's Share (5:09)
  11. Only The Heart May Know - with Emmylou Harris (4:11)
  12. The Reach (6:31)
  13. Aireshire Lament (0:53)
  14. Times Like These (3:04)
  15. Hard to Say (3:59)
  16. Empty Cages (6:25)
  17. Ghosts (7:12)

Credits

  • Don Alias - congas, shaker, drums [african drums], guiro [quido], cowbell
  • Russ Kunkel - drums, drums, cymbal, drums, congas, timbales, drums, percussion, music by, drums, percussion [backwards traps]
  • Heart Of Darkness Chorale - vocals [chants]
  • Joni Mitchell - vocals [descant]
  • Richie Furay - harmony vocals
  • Jesse Ehrlich - cello
  • Gayle Levant - harp, harp [celtic], harp [concert]
  • Kenny Passarelli - bass, bass, effects [broken twigs]

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