Late for the Sky
by Jackson Browne
- Type: Album
- Released: 19 September 1974
- Label: Asylum
- Country: United States
- Length: 41:21
- Community rating: 4.06/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Achieving profound emotional resonance through remarkably sparse, piano-driven arrangements, Jackson Browne delivered the definitive singer-songwriter masterpiece of mid-70s Los Angeles. 'Late for the Sky' is a beautifully mellow, intensely melancholic folk-rock triumph, utilizing fiercely melodic, deeply sentimental storytelling to navigate the depressive, apocalyptic anxieties of a crumbling romance.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, breakup, piano, confessional, storytelling, acoustic, classic
Tracklist
- Late for the Sky (5:41)
- Fountain of Sorrow (6:52)
- Farther On (5:21)
- The Late Show (5:14)
- The Road and the Sky (3:08)
- For a Dancer (4:46)
- Walking Slow (3:55)
- Before the Deluge (6:21)
Credits
- Jackson Browne - primary artist, design concept [cover concept], piano, acoustic guitar [accoustic guitar], producer, songwriter [all songs written by], slide guitar [slide]
- Doug Haywood - bass, harmony vocals [harmony], harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Peter Golden - booking [cruise director]
- Howard Burke - coordinator [loose ends drug together by]
- Larry Zack - drums, percussion
- David Lindley - electric guitar, slide guitar [slide], fiddle
- H. Driver - handclaps
- Henry Thome - handclaps
- Mike Condello - handclaps
- Beth Fitchet - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Dan Fogelberg - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Don Henley - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- John David Souther - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Joyce Everson - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Perry Lindley - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Terry Reid - harmony vocals [harmonies]
- Rick Griffin - lettering [front cover lettering by]
- Mark Hammerman - management
- Roy Silver - management
- The Blue Peacock Company - management
- Al Schmitt - mixed by, producer
- Henry Diltz - photography by [back cover]
- Bob Seidemann - photography by [front cover photograph], design [package design]
- Jai Winding - piano, organ
- Fritz Richmond - recorded by [elektra sound recorders with], sounds [chevrolet], jug, other [goldies]
- Bob Hughes - recorded by [hollywood sound recorders with]
- Tom Perry - recorded by [hollywood sound recorders with]
- Kent Nebergall - recorded by [sunset sound with]
- David Campbell - arranged by [string arrangement]