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Look at the Fool

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Released
  
November 1974

Length
  
34:16

Artist
  
Tim Buckley

Label
  
Manifesto Records

Recorded
  
1974

Producer
  
Joe Falsia

Release date
  
November 1974

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Studio
  
Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco; Record Plant, Los Angeles

Look at the Fool (1974)
  
The Late Great Tim Buckley (1978)

Genres
  
Folk music, Funk, Soul music

Similar
  
Tim Buckley albums, Folk music albums

Look at the Fool is the ninth and last album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley before his death in 1975. It was recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studios, San Francisco and Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks written by Tim Buckley, except ‡ by Larry Beckett/Buckley.

Side One

  1. "Look at the Fool" – 5:13
  2. "Bring It On Up" – 3:27
  3. "Helpless" – 3:20
  4. "Freeway Blues"‡ – 3:12
  5. "Tijuana Moon"‡ – 2:41

Side Two

  1. "Ain't It Peculiar" – 3:36
  2. "Who Could Deny You" – 4:23
  3. "Mexicali Voodoo" – 2:25
  4. "Down in the Street" – 3:21
  5. "Wanda Lu" – 2:38

Note: Original vinyl pressings list "Down in the Street" as the final track with "Wanda Lu" as track 9 on the sleeve, but has the correct running order listed on the disc itself.

Personnel

  • Tim Buckley – guitar, vocals
  • Lee Underwood – guitar, keyboards
  • Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
  • Joe Falsia – bass guitar, guitar, arranger, producer
  • Jim Fielder, Jim Hughart, Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
  • Jesse Ehrlich – cello
  • David Bluefield – clavinet on "Freeway Blues"
  • Mike Melvoin – organ, piano, Moog synthesizer
  • Mark Tiernan – electric piano
  • Terry Harrington – horn, saxophone
  • Richard Nash, William Peterson, John Rotella, Anthony Terran – horn
  • King Errisson – congas
  • Gary Coleman – percussion
  • Earl Palmer – drums
    • Technical
  • Stan Agol - recording and mixdown engineer
  • Wally Heider - mixing
  • Cal Schenkel - art direction
  • Napoleon - cover illustration

    • Songs

    1Look at the Fool5:13
    2Bring It on Up3:27
    3Helpless3:21

    References

    Look at the Fool Wikipedia
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