Awesome songwriter…
If James Taylor epitomized the definition and the original, late-’60s incarnation of the term singer/songwriter, Dan Fogelberg exemplified the late-’70s equivalent of that term at its most highly developed and successful, with a string of platinum-selling albums and singles into the early ’80s and a long career since, interrupted only by a health crisis in more recent years. He came out of a musical family, born Daniel Grayling Fogelberg on August 13, 1951, in Peoria, IL, where his father was an established musician, teacher, and bandleader. His first instrument was the piano, which he took to well enough, and music mattered to him more than the sports that were the preoccupation of most of the boys around him. At age ten, he was saving and listening to any old records he could find. And if there’s a “God-shaped space” in everyone, Fogelberg’s was filled with music, something his family might’ve guessed if they’d seen how much he loved the music in church but was bored by the sermons. His other great passions were drawing and painting. His personal musical turning point came in the early ’60s, before he’d reached his teens. A gift of an old Hawaiian guitar from his grandfather introduced him to the instrument that would soon supplant the piano, and at age 12, he heard the Beatles for the first time, which not only led him to a revelation about how electric guitars could sound, but also made him notice for the first time the act of songwriting as something central to what musicians did. It was also at that point that he began picking up on the music of Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly, all of whom were, of course, in the Beatles’ repertory.
He started writing songs soon after, and by the time he was 13, he was in a band called the Clan, playing school events with a repertory that mostly consisted of Beatles songs. Of all the members, he was the one who stayed with music, and his taste and interests evolved with the music around him. By the time he was in his mid-teens, he was listening to the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, and was finding inspiration in the sounds and songs of Gene Clark, Stephen Stills, Chris Hillman, Neil Young, and Richie Furay, among others. His second band, the Coachmen, who’d started out doing Paul Revere & the Raiders-style dance-oriented R&B, evolved into a more progressive folk-rock outfit, even embracing some of Springfield’s more ambitious repertory. Yet, somehow, for all of that devotion to music, he didn’t plunge directly into the field. Had he been living in California, in Los Angeles or San Francisco, it might’ve been different, but in the absence of a highly receptive audience, or a surrounding coterie of serious musician friends, or much encouragement anywhere in Peoria to pursue music, he ended up embracing other goals. After finishing high school, it was on to the University of Illinois at Champaign as a drama major, in hopes of an acting career, and then a switch to painting.
This was all going on amid the political agonies of the Vietnam War, which was still going on full-tilt at the time, and Fogelberg wasn’t isolated from the tensions over the war as they manifested themselves. He fell back into music through one of the relatively few public centers for what passed for a counterculture in central Illinois, a club called The Red Herring, owned by a friend named Peter Berkow. The latter invited Fogelberg to play, and soon he was building a local audience with his sound and his songs, and it was from that beginning that Fogelberg came to the attention of a University of Illinois alumnus named Irving Azoff, who at the time was managing REO Speedwagon and was thinking that it was time for him to move up to the next level in the music business. One performance by Fogelberg, accompanied by his solo acoustic guitar at an otherwise drunken fraternity event in front of a singularly oblivious audience, sold Azoff on his prospects and the idea that his own future might well be quite favorable if tied to Fogelberg. He moved to Los Angeles and Azoff began the task of getting him signed. In the interim, he played some sessions and even rated a support gig on tour with Van Morrison, in a series of shows that also included Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. His demo tape was good enough to get serious attention from Jerry Moss at A&M Records and David Geffen at the newly established Asylum Records, but it was the legendary Clive Davis, then still at Columbia Records, who got Fogelberg under contract.
Fogelberg’s debut album, Home Free (1972), recorded in Nashville, with Norbert Putnam producing, was an embarrassment of riches, musically speaking. It was a sublimely beautiful melding of country-rock with the personal level of a singer/songwriter, reminiscent at times of Gene Clark’s solo work, and also encompassing sounds derived from the likes of Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, yet never sounding too much like the joint work of those three (or four) and always sounding like Fogelberg. But it was a lot like several other brilliant debut albums to come out of the Columbia Records orbit during Davis’ tenure, including Child Is Father to the Man by the original Blood, Sweat & Tears and Greetings from Asbury Park by Bruce Springsteen, in that it never generated a hit single to help drive sales. Everyone who heard the album loved it, but without a single to generate AM radio play, very few people heard it; in Davis’ view, fine as it was, Home Free was a little too country-ish for mainstream radio, and fell between the cracks between pop/rock and country playlists. A few years later, after the success of acts such as the Eagles, such distinctions would matter less, but in 1972, the music marketplace was that segregated stylistically. Fogelberg kept working, mostly as a session musician, turning up on Buffy Saint-Marie’s MCA debut LP, Buffy, and on Jackson Browne’s Late for the Sky, among other early- to mid-’70s albums. He also managed to continue with Columbia with help from his manager. Azoff’s own Full Moon label had a production and distribution deal with Columbia, through its Epic Records imprint, and it was by way of Epic/Full Moon that he got a second chance. This time out, however, Fogelberg would record in Los Angeles with guitarist/producer Joe Walsh. Fogelberg quickly discovered that he had a sympathetic and enthusiastic partner in Walsh, and everything literally fell into place, even Graham Nash’s presence (at Walsh’s request) singing harmonies on the resulting album, Souvenirs, which featured a range of renowned Los Angeles-based musicians. The results were more than golden — they ended up double platinum, as “Part of the Plan” reached the Top 20 in 1974 and Souvenirs rode those charts for six months and sold steadily for years after. The album had mostly the same mix of elements as its predecessor, but this time it was widely heard and accepted. The country-flavored rock of “Part of the Plan,” the reflective singer/songwriter work of “Song from Half Mountain,” the bluegrass-flavored “Morning Sky,” and the heavier “As the Raven Flies” (which recalled Neil Young’s “Ohio”) — all seemed to fit together perfectly.
Now Fogelberg was a star, leading an Illinois-spawned band called Fool’s Gold and touring almost constantly for the next two years. In the midst of it all, he completed a third album, Captured Angel (1975) — which he produced himself this time — which showed him extending his sound in more ambitious directions, and in surprising circumstances. It was during 1975 that he’d returned home to spend time with his father, who had been hospitalized, and afterward, while staying in Peoria, cut what were supposed to be demos of the songs he wanted to use on his new album, with Fogelberg playing every instrument and doing all the vocals. Instead, when Azoff and Davis heard the demos, they insisted that this was the album, and that he could never recapture the feel he’d gotten on songs like “Comes and Goes” working with other musicians. He eventually came to an agreement with the label that the percussion parts would be redone by Russ Kunkel, and the final version of Captured Angel included Norbert Putnam on bass on certain tracks, and Al Perkins on pedal steel guitar and David Lindley on fiddle, plus some string arrangements by Glen Spreen, but otherwise it was truly a Fogelberg solo effort. That album only solidified his fame, as well as making him a special favorite of college students (especially coeds) across the country, and a tour with the Eagles in 1975 — who, by then, were being managed by Azoff — only enhanced his profile.
Fogelberg moved to Colorado in the mid-’70s, and his initial time there resulted in the songs that became the basis for his next album, Nether Lands (1977). Ironically, the songs came at the end of an extended dry spell as a songwriter, the first of his adult life. He found himself unable to compose for months, and then, suddenly, he started writing again, but in a much more ornate, elaborately conceived, classically influenced idiom. The songs were bolder both lyrically and musically — the title track, in particular, was notable for employing the services of composer/arranger Dominic Frontiere in orchestrating it. The album was a hit, and he was still riding that initial wave of recognition and the concertizing that went with it, even if he was now taking the audience in some unexpected directions. Fogelberg decided at this point to step back a bit — get off that wave — and do something purely for his own satisfaction musically. In 1978, he began work on a record that was to be more of a personal indulgence than anything else, the non-commercial side of Dan Fogelberg, sort of his equivalent to those instrumental albums that Frank Sinatra had issued as a conductor a couple of times in his career, or Neil Young’s later Everybody’s Rockin’. He teamed up on what became a duo album with jazz flutist Tim Weisberg for the album Twin Sons of Different Mothers (1978) — but instead of being a curio or a footnote in his output, it ended up charting high and generating a huge hit single in the guise of “The Power of Gold” (which, ironically, had been added to the LP at the last minute). The album ended up in the Top 20 and was embraced by critics and the public alike. For the next few years, Fogelberg was literally riding a creative and commercial whirlwind, peaking with his 1980 album Phoenix, which was propelled to platinum status with help from the number two single “Longer.” The year before, he also fulfilled a longtime career goal by playing Carnegie Hall in New York, to a sellout audience that included his parents.
Fogelberg’s career in the 1980s began with an unexpected turn — concept albums were common enough by then, but most record labels also tended to strongly discourage the recording of double LPs, owing to the expense and the difficulties in selling and marketing them. But midway through finishing his next album, and with the single “Same Old Lang Syne” already in release and record stores and buyers poised for a new LP, he suddenly decided to expand the planned record, writing new songs and effectively doubling its length, as well as delaying it well into 1981, the better part of a year beyond what the label or his manager had planned on. The result was his boldest production to date, The Innocent Age (1981), a massive project featuring some VIP collaborators (including Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris), from which four hit singles, the earlier “Same Old Lang Syne” plus “Run for the Roses,” “Hard to Say,” and “Leader of the Band” (the latter a tribute to his father), were ultimately extracted. That album marked his commercial peak, and seemed to end a phenomenally popular and productive phase of his career. As though to mark the transition, the following year Epic released its first hits compilation on Fogelberg, a ten-song LP on which four of the slots were filled by the singles off of The Innocent Age.
It was three years before his next new album, during which time Fogelberg’s musical sensibilities evolved in new and more specialized directions. He turned toward more personal and experimental forms of music, none of which proved remotely as popular with the public or with critics as his 1970s work. Additionally, as was the case with many artists of the 1970s and earlier, the playing field was fundamentally altered in the 1980s. MTV and music videos as promotional devices became central to getting exposure and airplay, and recording artists now needed a distinct visual style as well as a sound to make it to the front rank; additionally, a new generation of music critics, most of whom were bent on showing contempt for most of the favored artists of the previous decade or two, were now speaking in the press. His 1984 album Windows and Walls did reach the fans, and even generated a hit in “Language of Love,” but got a hostile reception from the critics of the period. And his turn toward bluegrass music, helped in part by his contact with Chris Hillman, who’d also turned back toward his bluegrass roots at the time (and recorded Fogelberg’s “Morning Sky” as the title track of his latest album), didn’t make him any more accessible to the mainline music critics of the day. The resulting album, High Country Snows (1985), was a good seller and showed off Fogelberg’s roots brilliantly, but did nothing to enhance his pop credibility, which had waned considerably over the previous three years.
Fogelberg withdrew somewhat in the years that followed, playing anonymously in bars around Colorado as part of an outfit called Frankie & the Aliens, formed by Joe Vitale. He seemed to be headed back to his teenage roots, and in the process redefined himself musically. When he re-emerged with The Wild Places and the worldbeat-flavored River of Souls in the early ’90s, he was writing what amounted to topical songs about the environment, a subject with which he’d become much concerned since moving permanently to Colorado. By that time, he’d established a fully equipped home studio that provided him with the independence that he craved, and he was beholden to the record label merely as a conduit for his work. Epic, for its part, kept releasing Fogelberg’s music, including a superb 1991 live album called Greetings from the West, and his earlier albums made perennially popular CD releases. Home Free was also extensively remixed by Norbert Putnam for its CD re-release in 1988 (those desiring to hear the original mix can find it on BGO’s U.K. double-CD reissue of Home Free/Souvenirs). Indeed, all of Fogelberg’s compact discs reflected an unusual degree of care in their production, especially for Columbia catalog reissues of the era, when the label was often just slapping down the digital masters and batting them out without an eye toward quality.
In 1995, he and Tim Weisberg did another collaboration together, No Resemblance Whatsoever, which seemed to pick up right where their 1978 album had left off without skipping a beat. In 1997, Columbia honored Fogelberg with a four-CD career retrospective compilation entitled Portrait: The Music of Dan Fogelberg from 1972-1997, looking back over his previous 25 years of work. Fogelberg closed out the old century with First Christmas Morning, which saw him plunge several centuries into the past in pursuing traditional holiday music, evoking sounds that, in the context of work from a pop/rock artist, had previously only been heard from Jan Akkerman on his Tabernakel album and the work of the Amazing Blondel, nearly 30 years before. Finally, in 2003, Fogelberg went back to the acoustic singer/songwriter sound of his early career with the appropriately titled Full Circle album. This seemed like the possible opening of a promising new phase to his work and career. Those prospects were dashed in mid-2004, however, when Fogelberg was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, to which he finally succumbed in late 2007.
Words from allmusic.com. Read more about Dan Fogelberg at the official website.
Discography
The Box Set Series
Epic Records 2014
Tracks: Part of the Plan, Power of Gold, Longer, Heart Hotels (Album Version), Same Old Lang Syne (Album Version), Hard to Say, Leader of the Band/Washington Post March, Run for the Roses, Missing You (Single Version), Make Love Stay, The Language of Love, Believe in Me, Go Down Easy (Album Version), She Don't Look Back (Album Version), As the Raven Flies, Looking for a Lady, Stars, Wysteria, There's a Place in the World for a Gambler, Song from Half Mountain, Illinois (Album Version), Crow (Album Version), The Last Nail (Album Version), Old Tennessee (Album Version), Captured Angel (Album Version), Nether Lands (Album Version), Once upon a time (Album Version), Promises Made, Twins Theme (Album Version), Intimidation (Album Version), It Doesn't Matter (Album Version), Phoenix (Album Version), Beggar's Game (Album Version), The Innocent Age, Hearts and Crafts, Windows and Walls, Sutter's Mill (Album Version), Wolf Creek (Album Version), High Country Snows, Lonely in Love, Our Last Farewell (Album Version), The Wild Places (Album Version), The Spirit Trail (Album Version), Rhythm of the Rain (Album Version), Serengeti Moon (Album Version), A Voice for Peace & Along the Road.
Musicians on the Box Set Series album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Original Album Classics
Epic Records 2012
Tracks: Disc 1: HOME FREE: To the Morning, Stars, More than Ever, Be on Your Way, Hickory Grove, Long Way Home (Live in the Country), Looking for a Lady, Anyway I Love You, Wysteria & The River. Disc 2: CAPTURED ANGEL: Aspen/These Days, Comes and Goes, Captured Angel, Old Tennessee, Next Time, Man in the Mirror/Below the Surface, Crow & The Last Nail. Disc 3: NETHER LANDS: Nether Lands, Once upon a Time, Dancing Shoes, Lessons Learned, Loose Ends, Love Gone By, Promises Made, Give Me Some Time, Scarecrow's Dream, Sketches & False Faces. Disc 4: THE INNOCENT AGE (DISC 1): Nexus, The Innocent Age, The Sand and the Foam, In the Passage, Lost in the Sun, Run for the Roses, Leader of the Band/Washington Post March & Same Old Lang Syne. Disc 5: THE INNOCENT AGE (DISC 2): Stolen Moments, The Lion's Share, Only the Heart May Know, The Reach, Aireshire Lament, Times like These, Hard To Say, Empty Cages & Ghosts.
Musicians on the Original Album Classics: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Love In Time
Full Moon Records 2009
Tracks: Love in Time, Soft Voice, So Many Changes, Come to the Harbor A Growing Time, The Colors of Eve, Diamonds to Dust, The Nature of the Game, Sometimes a Song, Days to Come & Birds.
Musicians on the Love In Time album: Dan Fogelberg and others
Live In Colorado 1977
Renaissance Entertainment Group 2009
Tracks: Now The Show Begins, Stars, Next Time, Morning Sky, Changing Horses, Part Of The Plan, Anyway I Love You, Long Way Home, As The Raven Flies, (Someone´s Been) Telling You Storied & To The Morning.
Musicians on the Live In Colorado 1977 album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Captured Angel/Nether Lands
Beat Goes On Records 2007
Tracks: Aspen/These Days, Comes And Goes, Captured Angel, Old Tennessee, Next Time, Man In The Mirror/Below The Surface, Crow, The Last Nail, Netherlands, Once Upon A Time, Dancing Shoes, Lessons Learned, Loose Ends, Love Gone By, Promises Made, Give Me Some Time, Scarecrow's Dream, Sketches & False Faces.
Musicians on the Captured Angel/Nether Lands album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Home Free/Souvenirs
Beat Goes On Records 2006
Tracks: To The Morning, Stars, More Than Ever, Be On Your Way, Hickory Grove, Long Way Home, Looking For A Lady, Anyway I Love You, Wysteria, The River, Part Of The Plan, Illinois, Changing Horses, Better Change, Souvenirs, The Long Way, As The Raven Flies, Song From Half Mountain, Morning Sky, Telling You Stories (Someone's Been) & There's A Place In The World For A Gambler.
Musicians on the Home Free/Souvenirs album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Collections
Legacy Records 2006
Tracks: The Power Of Gold, Tullamore Dew, Phoenix, As The Raven Flies, The Language Of Love, Nexus, Beggar's Game, Tucson Arizona (Gazette), She Don't Look Back & Longer.
Musicians on the Collections album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Wishing On The Moon
Sony Music 2005
Tracks: Longer, Phoenix, Hard To Say, Wishing On The Moon, Illinois, Nether Land, As The Raven Flies, Stars, Once Upon A Time & Rhythm Of The Rain - (Rain Live).
Musicians on the Wishing On The Moon album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
The Essential
Sony Music 2003
Tracks: Longer, Make Love Stay, Heart Hotels, Same Old Lang Syne, The Power Of Gold, Hard To Say, Phoenix, Part Of The Plan, Run For The Roses, Missing You, Rhythm Of The Rain/Rain, The Language Of Love, There's A Place In The World For A Gambler & Leader Of The Band/Washington Post March.
Musicians on the Essential album: Dan Fogelberg, Joe Walsh, Gail Levant, Al Garth, Michael Brecker, Jerry Hey, Mike Hanna, Mike Utley, Kenny Passarelli, Russ Kunkel, Andy Newmark, Glen Spreen & Sid Sharp.
Full Circle
Morning Sky Records 2003
Tracks: Half Moon Bay - (TRUE instrumental), When You're Not Near Me, Full Circle, Reason To Run, Once In Love, Whispers In The Wind, This Heart, Reach Haven Postcard, Drawing Pictures, Icarus Ascending & Earth Anthem.
Musicians on the Full Circle album: Dan Fogelberg, Sven Birkebeiner, Donny Traunt, Roland Laboite, Lee Mealone, Kenny Passarelli & Jean Fogelberg.
36 All-Time Favorites
Epic Records 2002
Tracks: CD1: Anyway I Love You, Looking For A Lady, Hickory Grove, Be On Your Way, Part Of The Plan, The Long Way, There's A Place In The World For A Gambler, Man In The Mirror/Below The Surface, Comes And Goes, Lessons Learned, Sketches & Promises Made. CD2: Longer, Along The Road, The Last To Know, Same Old Lang Syne, Stolen Moments, Run For The Roses, The Sand And The Foam, Leader Of The Band, Missing You, Make Love Stay, The Loving Cup & Let Her Go. CD3: Gone Too Far, High Country Snows, Wandering Shepherd, Think Of What You've Done, The Outlaw, Lonely In Love, Lovers In A Dangerous Time, Anastasia's Eyes, Rhythm Of The Rain/Rain, All There Is, Serengeti Moon & Higher Ground.
Musicians on the 36 All-Time Favorites album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
The Very Best Of Dan Fogelberg
Epic Records 2001
Tracks: Nether Lands, Part Of The Plan, Heart Hotels, Longer, Hard To Say, Leader Of The Band, Same Old Lang Syne, Run For The Roses, Make Love Stay, Missing You, The Language Of Love, Believe In Me, Lonely In Love, She Don't Look Back, Rhythm Of The Rain, Magic Every Moment & A Love Like This.
Musicians on the Very Best Of Dan Fogelberg album: Dan Fogelberg, Graham Nash, Tom Scott, Mike Porcaro, Jerry Hey, Jimmy Fadden, Michael Brecker, Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit and others.
Live - Something Old New Borrowed... And Some Blues
Chicago Records 2000
Tracks: Magic Every Moment, Songbird, The Innocent Age, As the Raven Flies, Hard to Say, Make Love Stay, Changing Horses, Looking for a Lady, You Better Think Twice, Don't Let That Sun Go Down, Statesboro Blues, Blow Wind Blow, She Don't Look Back & Here Comes the Sun.
Musicians on the Live - Something Old New Borrowed... And Some Blues album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
The First Christmas Morning
Chicago Records 1999
Tracks: Bell Fantasy/Hark The Herald Angels Sing, At Christmas Time, Winterskol, The First Christmas Morning, This Endris Night, Feast Of Fools, I Saw Three Ships, Snowfall, In The Bleak Midwinter, Yule Dance, What Child Is This?, O Tannenbaum, We Three Kings & Christ The King.
Musicians on the The First Christmas Morning album: Dan Fogelberg, Jack Manno, Hugh Marsh, Pam Boulding, Philip Boulding, Jan McDonald, Mark Clark & Santa Fe Desert Chorale.
Promises
AMW Records 1998
Tracks: To The Morning, Part Of The Plan, Souvenirs, Looking For A Lady, Song From Half Mountain, Leader Of The Band, More Than Ever, Come And Goes, Old Tennessee & Promises Made.
Musicians on the Promises album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Super Hits
Legacy Records 1998
Tracks: The Power Of Gold, Tullamore Dew, Phoenix, As The Raven Flies, The Language Of Love, Nexus, Beggar's Game, Tucson Arizona (Gazette), She Don't Look Back & Longer.
Musicians on the Super Hits album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Super Hits
Legacy Records 1998
Tracks: The Power Of Gold, Tullamore Dew, Phoenix, As The Raven Flies, The Language Of Love, Nexus, Beggar's Game, Tucson Arizona (Gazette), She Don't Look Back & Longer.
Musicians on the Super Hits album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Portrait
Epic Records 1997
Tracks: DISC 1: HITS: Part Of The Plan The Power Of Gold, Heart Hotels, Longer, Hard To Say, Leader Of The Band, Same Old Lang Syne, Run For The Roses, Make Love Stay, Missing You, The Language Of Love, Believe In Me, Lonely In Love, Rhythm Of The Rain, Magic Every Moment & Don't Lose Heart - (previously unreleased). DISC 2: BALLADS: To The Morning, Stars, Wysteria, Song From Half Mountain, Old Tennessee, Nether Lands, Scarecrow's Dream, Since You've Asked, Hearts And Crafts, Only The Heart May Know, Sweet Magnolia (And The Traveling Salesman), Windows And Walls, Seeing You Again, Bones In The Sky, The Minstrel, Mountains To The Sea - (previously unreleased) & A Love Like This. DISC 3: ROCK & ROLL: Tullamore Dew, Phoenix, As The Raven Flies, The River, Once Upon A Time, Tell Me To My Face, Wishing On The Moon, Empty Cages, The Innocent Age, What You're Doing, She Don't Look Back, Aurora Nova, The Wild Places, Democracy - (previously unreleased) & A Voice For Peace. DISC 4: TALES & TRAVELS: Nexus, Illinois, The Last Nail, Dancing Shoes, Paris Nocturne, Beggar's Game, The Reach, The, Tucson Arizona (Gazette), Do Down Easy, Sutter's Mill, Song For A Carpenter - (previously unreleased), Forefathers, River Of Souls & Ever On.
Musicians on the Portrait album: Dan Fogelberg, Graham Nash, Joe Walsh, Tom Scott, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit and others.
Definitive Collection
Epic Records 1995
Tracks: Part Of The Plan, Souvenirs, Illinois, Stars, Captured Angel, Old Tennessee, Nether Lands, The Power Of Gold, Longer, Heart Hotels, Leader Of The Band/Washington Post March, Same Old Lang Syne, Make Love Stay, Believe In Me, Go Down Easy, Rhythm Of The Rain, Bones In The Sky & Magic Every Moment.
Musicians on the Definitive Collection album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
No Resemblance Whatsoever
Giant Records 1995
Tracks: Country Clare, Forever Young, Todos Santos, Sunlight, Isle Au Haut, The Face Of Love, Songbird, Is This Magic, Stasia & Windward.
Musicians on the No Resemblance Whatsoever album: Dan Fogelberg, Tim Weisberg and others.
Love Songs
Sony Records 1995
Tracks: Anyway I Love You, More Than Ever, Longer, Leader Of The Band, Go Down Easy, Beggar's Game, The Loving Cup, Gypsy Wind, Believe In Me, Stars, Sweet Magnolia, The Last To Know, Hard To Say & Looking For A Lady.
Musicians on the Love Songs album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Star Box
Sony/Epic Records 1993
Tracks: Part Of The Plan, There's A Place In The World For A Gambler, The Power Of Gold, Longer, Heart Hotels, Same Old Lang Syne, Leader Of The Band/Washington Post March, Run For The Roses, Hard To Say, Missing You, Make Love Stay, The Language Of Love, Believe In Me, Lonely In Love, Rhythm Of The Rain & The Wild Places.
Musicians on the Starbox album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
River Of Souls
Full Moon Records 1993
Tracks: Magic Every Moment, All There Is, The Minstrel, Faces Of America, Holy Road, Serengeti Moon, Higher Ground, A Love Like This, River Of Souls & A Voice For Peace.
Musicians on the River Of Souls album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Live - Greetings From The West
Full Moon Records 1991
Tracks: CD 1: Aurora Nova, The Wild Places, Heart Hotels, Over & Over, Rhythm Of The Rain, The Spirit Trail, Make Love Stay, Old Tennessee, Road Beneath My Wheels, A Cry In The Forest, Run For The Roses, Believe In Me & Leader Of The Band. CD 2: Twins Theme, Intimidation, The Power Of Gold, Lonely In Love, Missing You, Language Of Love, Part Of The Plan, Same Old Lang Syne & There's A Place In The World For A Gambler.
Musicians on the Live - Greetings From The West album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
The Wild Places
Epic Records 1990
Tracks: Aurora Nova, The Wild Places, Forefathers, Song Of The Sea, Anastasia's Eyes, Blind To The Truth, Lovers In A Dangerous Time, Rhythm Of The Rain, Bones In The Sky, The Spirit Trail & Ever On.
Musicians on the Wild Places album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Exiles
Epic Records 1987
Tracks: Exiles, What You're Doing, Lonely in Love, Seeing You Again, She Don't Look Back, The Way It Must Be, Hearts in Decline, It Doesn't Matter, Our Last Farewell & Beyond the Edge.
Musicians on the Exiles album: Dan Fogelberg, Michael Landau, Michael Brecker, Michael Hanna, Russ Kunkel, Andy Newmark, Rick Marotta, Joe Lala, Niko Bolas, Julia Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters & Timothy B. Schmit.
High Country Snows
Epic Records 1985
Tracks: Down The Road, Mountain Pass, Sutter's Mill, Wolf Creek, High Country Snows, The Outlaw, Shallow Rivers, Go Down Easy, Wandering Shepherd, Think Of What You've Done & The Higher You Climb.
Musicians on the High Country Snows album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Windows And Walls
Epic Records 1984
Tracks: The Language Of Love, Windows And Walls, The Loving Cup, Tucson Arizona (Gazette), Let Her Go, Sweet Magnolia (And The Travelling Salesman), Believe In Me & Gone Too Far.
Musicians on the Windows And Walls album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Greatest Hits
Epic Records 1982
Tracks: Part Of The Plan, Heart Hotels, Hard To Say, Longer, Missing You, The Power Of Gold, Make Love Stay, Leader Of The Band, Run For The Roses & Same Old Lang Syne.
Musicians on the Greatest Hits album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
The Innocent Age
Epic Records 1981
Tracks: DISC 1: Nexus, The Innocent Age, The Sand And The Foam, In The Passage, Lost In The Sun, Run For The Roses, Leader Of The Band/Washington Post March & Same Old Lang Syne. DISC 2: Stolen Moments, The Lion's Share, Only The Heart May Know - (with Emmylou Harris), The Reach, Aireshire Lament, Times Like These, Hard To Say, Empty Cages & Ghosts.
Musicians on the Innocent Age album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Phoenix
Epic Records 1980
Tracks: Tullamore Dew, Phoenix, Gypsy Wind, The Last To Know, Face The Fire, Wishing On The Moon, Heart Hotels, Longer, Beggar's Game & Along The Road.
Musicians on the Phoenix album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Twin Sons Of Different Mothers
Epic Records 1978
Tracks: Twin's Theme, Intimidation, Lazy Susan, Guitar Etude No. 3, Tell Me To My Face, Hurtwood Alley, Lahaina Luna, Paris Nocturne, Since You Asked & Power Of Gold.
Musicians on the Twin Sons Of Different Mothers album: Dan Fogelberg, Tim Weisberg and others.
Nether Lands
Epic Records 1977
Tracks: Netherlands, Once Upon A Time, Dancing Shoes, Lessons Learned, Loose Ends, Love Gone By, Promises Made, Give Me Some Time, Scarecrow's Dream, Sketches & False Faces.
Musicians on the Nether Lands album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Captured Angel
Epic Records 1975
Tracks: Aspen/These Days, Comes And Goes, Captured Angel, Old Tennessee, Next Time, Man In The Mirror/Below The Surface, Crow & The Last Nail.
Musicians on the Captured Angel album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Souvenirs
Epic Records 1974
Tracks: Part Of The Plan, Illinois, Changing Horses, Better Change, Souvenirs, The Long Way, As The Raven Flies, Song From Half Mountain, Morning Sky, Telling You Stories (Someone's Been) & There's A Place In The World For A Gambler.
Musicians on the Souvenirs album: Dan Fogelberg and others.
Home Free
Epic Records 1972
Tracks: To The Morning, Stars, More Than Ever, Be On Your Way, Hickory Grove, Long Way Home, Looking For A Lady, Anyway I Love You, Wysteria & The River.
Musicians on the Home Free album: Dan Fogelberg and others.