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Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Rock Album: Blue Afternoon Country: New Zealand Released: 1970 MP3 version RAR size: 1288 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1430 mb WMA version RAR size: 1967 mb Rating: 4.3 Votes: 408 Other Formats: TTA MP2 MMF AAC AA MPC MP1 Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Happy Time 3:15 A2 Chase The Blues Away 5:10 A3 I Must Have Been Blind 3:40 A4 The River 5:47 B1 So Lonely 3:27 B2 Cafe 5:40 Blue Melody B3 4:55 Congas – Carter Collins* B4 The Train 7:53 Companies, etc. Manufactured By – His Master's Voice (NZ) Limited Credits Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – John Miller Design, Photography By – John Williams Drums – Jimmy Madison Engineer, Technician [Technical Production] – Dick Kunc Guitar, Piano – Lee Underwood Photography By – Frank Bez Twelve-String Guitar, Producer, Music By, Lyrics By – Tim Buckley Vibraphone – David Freedman* Notes NZ release. Green labels, laminated flip-back cover. Other versions Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year Blue Afternoon (LP, Album, STS 1060 Tim Buckley Straight STS 1060 US 1969 Gat) Blue Afternoon (LP, Album, STS 1060 Tim Buckley Straight STS 1060 US 1969 Gat) CST 1060 Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon (Cass) Straight CST 1060 US 1970 Blue Afternoon (LP, Album, Warner Bros. WS 001842 Tim Buckley WS 001842 Greece Unknown Gat) Records Blue Afternoon (LP, Album, STS 1060 Tim Buckley Straight STS 1060 Canada 1970 Gat) Related Music albums to Blue Afternoon by Tim Buckley 1. Seal - Soul 2 2. Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Red Norvo, Louis Bellson, Remo Palmieri, George Duvivier, Freddie Green - Swing Reunion 3. Tim Buckley - Greetings From West Hollywood 4. The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Spirit Of The Century 5. Tim Buckley - The Complete Album Collection 6. Betty Buckley - Betty Buckley 7. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad 8. David Buckley - Strings Electric "By Request" 9. Tim Buckley - Lorca 10. Tim Buckley - Original Album Series.

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Greetings from Tim Buckley
GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY EEN FILM VAN DAN ALGRANT WILD BUNCH WILLEMSSTRAAT 24 B - 1015 JD – AMSTERDAM WWW.WILDBUNCH.NL [email protected] WILDBUNCHblx GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY – DAN ALGRANT PROJECT SUMMARY EEN PRODUCTIE VAN FROM A TO Z PRODUCTIONS, SMUGGLER FILMS TAAL ENGELS LENGTE 99 MINUTEN GENRE DRAMA LAND VAN HERKOMST USA FILMMAKER DAN ALGRANT HOOFDROLLEN PENN BADGLEY, IMOGEN POOTS RELEASEDATUM 26 SEPTEMBER 2013 KIJKWIJZER SYNOPSIS In 1991 repeteert een jonge Jeff Buckley voor zijn optreden tijdens een tribute show ter ere van zijn vader, wijlen volkszanger Tim Buckley. Terwijl hij worstelt met de erfenis van een man die hij nauwelijks kende, vormt Jeff een vriendschap met een mysterieuze jonge vrouw die bij de show werkt en begint hij de potentie van zijn eigen muzikale stem te ontdekken. CAST JEFF PENN BADGLEY ALLIE IMOGEN POOTS TIM BEN ROSENFIELD GARY FRANK WOOD JEN JENNIFER TURNER CAROL KATE NASH JANE ISABELLE MCNALLY LEE WILLIAM SADLER HAL NORBERT LEO BUTZ YOUNG LINDA JADYN STRAND RICHARD FRANK BELLO JANINE NICHOLS JESSICA STONE YOUNG LEE TYLER GILHAM SIRENS KEMP AND EDEN C.H. DAVID SCHNIRMAN CARTER STEPHEN TYRONE WILLIAMS MILOS CHRISTOPH MANUEL FRANK DAVID LIPMAN GARY LUCAS GARY LUCAS CREW DIRECTOR DAN ALGRANT SCREENWRITER DAN ALGRANT DAVID BRENDEL EMMA SHEANSHANG CINEMATOGRAPHER ANDRIJ PAREKH EDITOR BILL PANKOW CASTING AVY KAUFMAN PRODUCTION DESIGN JOHN PAINO COSTUME DESIGN DAVID C. ROBINSON ORIGINAL MUSIC GARY LUCAS GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY – DAN ALGRANT DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Before GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY, I had made two short films about my father. When I was 21, I made the first film about how much I hated him when he left my mother.
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IDAM COHEN Angst, Liebe, Trauer und Wut zu transpor- scheibe THE COLOGNE CONCERT), sämtliche elf Studio-Alben, die lronard LIKEA MAN tieren. Genießt man die vier Stücke von Willy DeVille (mit einer Kostprobe aus Cohen bisher veröffentlicht hat. Beginnend Hie seinem Vater Leonard kann man Adam OCEAN'S KINGDOM als reine Musikdar- LJNPLUGGED IN BERLIN) oder dem 1968 mit SONGS OF LEONARD COIIEN lohen wohl kaum Hyper-Produktivität bietung (und wer hat schon die passenden irischen Poeten, Schauspieler und Musiker über SONGS OF LOVE AND HAIE aus "For Echsagen, LIKE A MAN ist erst sein drit- Tänzerinnen und Tänzer zu Hause ...), Mick Fitzgerald. Mit Kenny" ist es dem Jahr l97l bis zu seinen Spätwerken es Album in zwölf Jahren.Aber es ist das sollte man sich auf eine knappe Stunde dann Freddy Koella vorbehalten, diese ab- TEN NEW SONGS (2001) und DEAR ;rste, das die berühmte Verwandtschaft konzentrierten Hörens einstellen, dann wechslungsreiche CD zu beschließen. Eine HEATHER (2004) ist sich Cohen immer ilcht verheimlichen möchte. das nicht nur gelingt das Eintauchen in den größtenteils Aufgabe, die der Geiger, der schon mit Bob treu geblieben, gab es nur marginale An- rom Timbre her, sondern auch bei der Me- sanft wogenden McCartney-Ozean. Dylan, Carla Bruni, FrancisCabrel und k.d. passungen an den jeweiligen Znitgeist. Mieführung und den Arrangements dem (Concord/Universal,4156:36) us Lang auf Tour war, mit Bravour löst. Damit ist sein Gesamtwerk auch eines der Itil Leonard Cohens folgt. Textlich bleiben (Meyer Records/Rough Trade, l2l45:30) us kompaktesten im Rock- und Pop-Business, lie beiden weit auseinander,mit den mys- BUDDYHOLLY Qualität ging ihm immer über Quanti- ischen Metaphern seines Vaters scheint THAT'LLBE THE DAY - BEST THE B-52s tät.
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