''Blue Afternoon'' is the fourth studio album by Tim Buckley, released in November 1969. It is Tim Buckley's first self-produced record and his debut for

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. The album used the same group of musicians as '' Happy Sad'' (1969) with the addition of drummer Jimmy Madison. It presaged Buckley's most

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work on his subsequent two albums. Several tracks on ''Blue Afternoon'' are songs Buckley had intended to record on earlier albums but had not completed. "Chase the Blues Away" and "Happy Time" are numbers he had worked on in the summer of 1968 for possible inclusion on ''Happy Sad'' and demos can be heard on the Rhino label's '' Works in Progress'' album. ''Blue Afternoon'', like '' Starsailor'', was re-released as a stand-alone album on CD format only once in the United States, in 1989 on the Enigma Retro label. It was then later re-issued by Warners/Rhino Records UK in 2011 as part of the ''Original Album Series'' box set, with Buckley's four LPs released on Elektra Records, and again in 2017 by Rhino as part of the collection ''Tim Buckley - The Complete Album Collection'', featuring his first 7 albums plus a re-release of ''Works in Progress''.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Buckley.

Personnel

* Tim Buckley –

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, vocals * Lee Underwood – guitar, piano *

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– guitar on "Happy Time" and "So Lonely" * David Friedman –

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* John Miller – acoustic and electric bass * Jimmy Madison – drums * Carter C.C. Collins – congas on "Blue Melody" ;Technical *Dick Kunc - engineer, technical production *John Williams - design, photography *Frank Bez - photography

References

External links

Review of ''Blue Afternoon'' and ''Starsailor''
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Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was first known fo ...

Review of ''Blue Afternoon'' by Don Heckman
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