Starsailor (album)
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| Studio album by Tim Buckley | ||||
| Released | November 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 10–21 September 1970, Whitney Studios, Glendale, CA | |||
| Genre | Experimental rock, psychedelic folk, avant-folk, jazz-pop | |||
| Length | 35:54 | |||
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Straight Records LP Enigma Retro CD 4 Men with Beards LP (2007 Reissue) |
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| Producer | Tim Buckley | |||
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| Robert Christgau | C− |
Starsailor is a 1970 album by Tim Buckley (see 1970 in music), released on Herb Cohen's Straight Records label. It marks the moment Buckley's folk rock origins became invisible as he fully incorporated jazz rock and avant-garde styles into his music. Although it alienated elements of his fanbase upon release, it also contains his best known song "Song to the Siren". This more accessible song was written much earlier than Starsailor's newer material, originally in a more traditional folk arrangement, as shown on the later released compilation album Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology. Bunk Gardner, a former member of the Mothers of Invention, joined Buckley's normal band to record the album. Also, Buckley began working again with lyricist Larry Beckett, after a three-album absence.
Leontyne Price attended a concert in New York City during the supporting tour and told Buckley, "Boy, I wish they were writing things like that for us opera singers," to which Buckley responded, "Well, do what I did; get your own band."
"Song to the Siren" has been covered by a variety of artists, most notably This Mortal Coil, which featured on the 1984 album It'll End in Tears. John Frusciante, in 2009, covered this song on his album The Empyrean. Amen Dunes covered the song on their 2015 released "Cowboy Worship" EP. The British trance act Lost Witness also released a remix single; "Did I Dream (Song to the Siren)".
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