ARTiST: Tim Buckley
TiTLE: The Best Of
LABEL: Rhino / Warner
GENRE: Folk
TiME: 77:59 min
SiZE: 106,5 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-29-2006
RELEASE DATE: Oct-02-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Aren't You The Girl 02:05
02. Song For Janie 02:47
03. I Can't See You 02:42
04. Carnival Song 03:12
05. Morning Glory 02:53
06. Goodbye And Hello 08:41
07. Sing A Song For You (Take 11) 05:44
08. Once I Was 03:24
09. Strange Feelin' 07:39
10. I Had A Talk With My Woman 06:00
11. Happy Time 03:15
12. I Must Have Been Blind 03:45
13. The River 05:48
14. Song To The Siren 03:28
15. Dolphins 03:14
16. Martha 03:19
17. Move With Me 04:52
18. Look At The Fool 05:11
Release Notes:
Before his death in 1975 at the age of 28,
singer/songwriter/producer Tim Buckley managed to
cover a lot of musical ground with his multi-octave
voice. From the folk and psychedelic songs of his
early albums to the jazz improvisations and funky
soul of his later work -- Buckley created music with
no compromises that inspired fans and musicians
alike. Rhino Records says "Goodbye And Hello" to
Buckley's restless curiosity with a career-spanning,
single-disc compilation.
THE BEST OF TIM BUCKLEY contains 18 remastered
tracks from his nine studio albums recorded between
1966 and 1974 along with "Sing A Song For You," a
rare track featured on Rhino Handmade's
limited-editon release, Works In Progress. THE BEST
OF contains selections from Buckley's self-titled
debut (1966), Goodbye And Hello (1967), Happy Sad
(1969), Blue Afternoon (1969), Lorca (1970),
Starsailor (1970), Greetings From L.A. (1972),
Sefronia (1973), and the final album Look At The
Fool (1974).
Commercially underappreciated during his
short-but-dazzling career, Buckley's one constant
was change. He confounded fans and critics who
craved musical stasis. By unapologetically following
his muse, Buckley created a rich and lasting body of
work. On the first half of the collection, Buckley
the folksinger emerges as his commandingly gorgeous
and almost-androgynous tenor takes center stage on
"Aren't You The Girl," "Song For Janie," "I Can't
See You," "Carnival Song," "Once I Was," "Morning
Glory," and "Goodbye And Hello," the eight-minute
title track from his sophomore effort.
The second half of THE BEST OF TIM BUCKLEY explores
the artist's eclectic evolution and includes the
jazzy improvisational arrangements of "I Had A Talk
With My Woman," "Happy Time," "I Must Have Been
Blind," and "The River." The collection also
contains covers of Tom Waits' "Martha" and Fred
Neil's "Dolphins" as well as the Buckley original
"Song To The Siren," a song he once played on the TV
series, The Monkees. The album concludes with the
title track from Buckley's final studio album Look
At The Fool.
The album features insightful liner notes penned by
Matthew Specktor, who puts the collection into
context. "What's clear, taking the survey of
Buckley's work this particular compilation affords,
is just how multifold the work -- not just the man
or his outline -- remains, how earthy and how, by
now, accessible," he writes. "Indeed, it's the
singer's death that seems, now, distressingly
quotidian, unworthy of any sort of poetic
embellishment, while the work, so singular, can swim
to the fore. That, by contrast, repays all over
again the attention we're free to give it,
near-infinite in its mystery and reward."