Blue Afternoon

by Tim Buckley

Blue Afternoon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 November 1969
  • Label: Straight
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:56
  • Community rating: 4.29/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released merely months after 'Happy Sad', Tim Buckley's fourth album is a breathtakingly quiet, intimately atmospheric exploration of acoustic balladry. 'Blue Afternoon' is profoundly peaceful and wonderfully mellow, weaving highly melodic, distinctly chamber-jazz instrumentation into a beautifully poetic, deeply melancholic, and intensely passionate expression of loneliness.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, male-vocals, acoustic, soulful, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Happy Time (3:16)
  2. Chase the Blues Away (5:14)
  3. I Must Have Been Blind (3:46)
  4. The River (5:49)
  5. So Lonely (3:29)
  6. Cafe (5:28)
  7. Blue Melody (4:56)
  8. The Train (7:55)

Credits

  • Tim Buckley - primary artist, twelve-string guitar, producer, music by, lyrics by
  • John Miller - acoustic bass, electric bass
  • John Williams - design, photography by
  • Jimmy Madison - drums
  • Dick Kunc - engineer, technician [technical production]
  • Lee Underwood - guitar, piano
  • Frank Bez - photography by
  • David Friedman - vibraphone
  • Carter C.C. Collins - congas

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