Tim Buckley - Danang

Tim Buckley - Works in Progress [1999]

In the spring and summer of 1968, Tim Buckley and band began a series of recording sessions for what-would then have been the follow-up to his 1967 album Goodbye And Hello. The direction for this particular album evolved midstream, and the initial session recordings were, for the most part, set aside. While two tracks from these various 1968 sessions did end up being used on his 1968 album Happy Sad, the remainder of the recordings ended up not being used on anything at all. The complete sessions themselves seem to have disappeared, but the best of them had been set aside on compilation reels which were filed away decades ago, forgotten until their discovery a few years back.

Tim Buckleys Works In Progress is a 16-track collection of the surviving recordings from these 1968 studio sessions along with one survivor from a 1967 session. All tracks, except those two which ended up more or less intact on Happy Sad, are previously unreleased. And, because each and every track on this compact disc was remixed from the original multitracks in August 1999, even those two later-released tracks have never before sounded so good. Works In Progress contains a 20-page booklet with insightful liner notes by longtime Buckley guitarist/friend/biographer Lee Underwood as well as lyrics for all of the performed songs Tim wrote or co-wrote.

While many of the song titles will be very familiar to fans, the versions on Works In Progress will certainly not be. In addition to showcasing two compositions which have never before been released, most every other track contains lyrics, or verses, which appear only in the versions from these 1968 sessions. There are studio recordings of songs which have only previously been released as live recordings, and versions of Buckley favorites which you can hear transform from session to session.

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[andrew19vato]

@MrNicolasz ahh ok i see, god bless tim buckley. i think that of all the singer songwriters to come out in the late 60s very few were as talented or as experimental as him

[MrNicolasz]

@andrew19vato yes man in love from room 109 start at 3:23

wikipedia say: he large part of these recordings were not used on Happy Sad and only appear upon this compilation. Some of the songs here evolved into another song: "Danang" and "Ashbury Park" later came to form two movements of the three part song "Love From Room 108 At The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway)" that would appear on the final version of Buckley's third album.

[firstofakind]

Love this. Is the entire works in prog album uploaded on youtube?

[BilisNegra]

@NovaScotiaChick That's really kind of you ;-) Anyway, my French it's getting somewhat stale, I've not practised much for ages. French is quite widespread, of course, but English is, well, just universal. You practise without even meaning to. Here, for instance, if you don't know who's going to read your comments. Maybe that's unfair, but we can't do much about it. Anyway, it would be worth trying to improve my French before I forget it completely. Sure is great language!

[NovaScotiaChick]

@BilisNegra You live in Spain, write English lyrically, and French fluently? Not bad. :)

[NovaScotiaChick]

@BilisNegra Beautifully said.

[andrew19vato]

isnt this the second half of the song love from room 109??????

[BilisNegra]

C'est curieux, deux commentaires en anglais. Personne d'entre nous le parle comme langue maternelle, meme pas celui qui a posté le video...

[BilisNegra]

This song brings you peace, while maintaining some point of melancholy. A perfect place to be.

[edumota]

best voice ever....no more words.