Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren

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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[KaitlynBrains]

i first heard this song when i was watching the movie Candy. That was about 5 years ago and i'm still in love with it.

[Jan Kenk]

Thank you John Frusciante for bringing me here :)

[irisisaflower]

Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile 'til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me Sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am Here I am Waiting to hold you

[Joe Moe]

Alex,

Don't feel bad, I realized that only recently as well. I was like BLAMMO helllo, lol....!

[Dusty Rhodes]

I've listened to this many time since I discovered it a few months back. Its the sirens song I needed as soundtrack to the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrork: I saw the sirens... Profound.

[Alex Bloggs]

Ive liked both tim and jeff buckley for a while and only just realised they're father and son...what is wrong with me?

[Laurisa718]

I remember this song when it was first release, and it still makes me cry today. So lovely!

[jjwmacdo]

John F.'s best song is this cover,

[marcel berg]

yes candy brought me here too, great movie and music