Innocent Age

Dan Fogelberg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025NJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,798 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #99 in Music > Folk > Contemporary Folk > Singer-Songwriters

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dan Fogelberg's AMazing Masterwork!, August 25, 2000

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innocent Age (Audio CD)

This incredible double album released at the apex of Dan Fogelberg's popularity in the early 1980s is an amazing tour-de-force by one of folk-rock's most under-appreciated artists. From the stirring opening instrumental on "Nexus" and its complex and quite accomplished lyrics describing today's contemporary cultural conundrum to the lyrical ballad "Innocent Age", this album showcases Dan's wide range of songwriting, musical, and arrangement skills. Fogelberg tends to favor a very full "wall of sound" approach to his music, and sometimes tends to somewhat overproduce arrangements by having too much going on simultaneously in his works. Yet here the songs are clear, crisp, and simply terrific, from "The Sand And The Foam" to "Stolen Moments" to a lovely accompaniment with Emmy Lou Harris on the memorable "Only The Heart May Know". A number of top-forty hits are included, from "Leader Of The Band" to "Run For The Roses" to "Same Old Lang Syne". My favorites here are the spare and haunting "Aireshire Lament" to the astonishing work on "The Reach". Dan paints a word picture here that leaves me imagining casting about on a lobster boat in the swells and eddies off the Maine coast. Perhaps it is due to its length, but I simply cannot understand why it was never released as a single. This is a wonderful album, folks, and a splendid treat to Mr. Fogelberg's considerable skills and talents. I highly recommend it. Enjoy.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fogelberg's Magnum Opus, December 6, 2000

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innocent Age (Audio CD)

The Innocent Age by Dan Fogelberg is not an album but as it is described in the booklet, a song cycle. This is an appropriate and accurate description. In fact, an even more appropriate description would be a song novel. The album unfolds like a book from the opening instrumental "Nexus" to the closing "Ghosts". In between we are taken on tale that goes to the sea in "The Sand & The Foam", a tribute to his father in "Leader Of The Band", meeting an old flame in "Same Old Lang Syne" and love in various stages in "Only The Heart May Know", "The Reach" and "Hard To Say". Along the way Mr. Fogelberg is assisted by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmidt from The Eagles and Emmylou Harris. Mr. Fogelberg reached his commercial and critical peak with this album as it made the top ten and spawned three top ten hits.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Auditory Gem, June 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Innocent Age (Audio CD)

I was turned on to Dan Fogelberg by college friends who performed his songs. I remember the night I got "The Innocent Age"; it was my birthday and I had gotten the album and a new pair of headphones. I spent the evening marveling at the beautiful music I heard Dan make. It still totally blows me away - and I have the most diverse musical tastes of anybody I've ever met. Intricate acoustic guitar details, perfect and inventive arrangement of instruments, and Dan's voice at prime, from soft to piercing. "Ghosts" still gives me chills.