Blue Afternoon

Blue Afternoon
Studio album by Tim Buckley
Released	24 November 1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Jazz rock, folk rock
Length	40:47
Label	Straight LP Enigma Retro CD
Producer	Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley chronology
Happy Sad (1969) Blue Afternoon (1969) Lorca (1970)

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Blue Afternoon, released in 1969, was Tim Buckley's first self-produced record and his debut for Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa's Straight record label. This was Buckley's fourth album after Tim Buckley, Goodbye and Hello, and Happy Sad. Blue Afternoon used the same group of musicians as Happy Sad, with the inclusion of drummer Jimmy Madison.

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.

In late 2005, the album was made available on the iTunes Store.

Track listing

All tracks by Tim Buckley.

Side One

1. "Happy Time" – 3:15
2. "Chase the Blues Away" – 5:14
3. "I Must Have Been Blind" – 3:40
4. "The River" – 5:47

Side Two

1. "So Lonely" – 3:27
2. "Café" – 5:40
3. "Blue Melody" – 4:55
4. "The Train" – 7:53

Personnel

• Tim Buckley – 12 string guitar, Vocals
• Lee Underwood – Guitar, Piano
• Steve Khan – Guitar on "Happy Time" and "So Lonely"
• David Friedman – Vibes
• John Miller – Acoustic & Electric Bass
• Jimmy Madison – Drums
• Carter C.C. Collins - Congas on "Blue Melody"

External links

• Review of Blue Afternoon and Starsailor in Rolling Stone
• Review of Blue Afternoon by Don Heckman in The New York Times