Released August 1981 Artist Dan Fogelberg Label Epic/Sony Records | The Innocent Age
(1981) Greatest Hits
(1982) Release date August 1981 Genre Soft rock | |
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Length 39:26 (LP 1)/40:35 (LP 2) Producer Dan Fogelberg, Marty Lewis Similar Dan Fogelberg albums, Soft rock albums | ||
1981 the innocent age l p side 1 dan fogelberg classic vinyl
The Innocent Age is the seventh album by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). It was also one of his most successful albums; three of his four Top 10 singles on the Billboard pop chart ("Hard to Say" (#7), "Same Old Lang Syne" (#9), and "Leader of the Band" (#9)) were from this album, as well as another Top 20 single in "Run for the Roses" (#18). All four also reached the Top 10 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, with "Leader of the Band" reaching Number 1 on that chart. The album also included his song "Times Like These" from the 1980 "Urban Cowboy" Soundtrack . "The Innocent Age" drew its inspiration from Thomas Wolfe's major novel Of Time and the River. Fogelberg captured on this album Wolfe's protagonist's search for meaning, for self, and the inexorable passage of time.
Contents
Track listing
All songs written by Dan Fogelberg, except where noted.
Disc One:
- "Nexus" – 6:04
- "The Innocent Age" – 4:15
- "The Sand and the Foam" – 4:19
- "In the Passage" – 6:28
- "Lost in the Sun" – 3:53
- "Run for the Roses" – 4:18
- "Leader of the Band" (concludes with an excerpt from "The Washington Post" march arranged by Lawrence Peter Fogelberg, performed by the UCLA Band) – 4:48
- "Same Old Lang Syne" – 5:21
Disc Two:
- "Stolen Moments" – 3:12
- "The Lion's Share" – 5:10
- "Only the Heart May Know" – 4:09
- "The Reach" – 6:30
- "Aireshire Lament" – 0:52
- "Times Like These" (from the 1980 "Urban Cowboy" Soundtrack) – 3:02
- "Hard to Say" – 4:00
- "Empty Cages" (Fogelberg, Russ Kunkel, Norbert Putnam, Mike Utley) – 6:24
- "Ghosts" – 7:16
Personnel
Production
Songs
1Nexus6:04
2The Innocent Age4:19
3The Sand and the Foam4:21