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Also available in a 3-pack with SOUVENIRS and CAPTURED ANGEL.
While continuing to grow as an artist, Dan Fogelberg extended himself even further on his fourth album, Nether Lands. Somewhat of a concept album, replete with orchestration and following an underlying theme throughout, it had the feel of a long, unified musical suite. Powerful, moving, and emotionally charged, it firmly established Fogelberg as a major artist whose creative reach seemed boundless. Arriving at the height of the California rock explosion, the album brought together rock, pop, country, folk, and classical musical ideas in a fully cohesive effort. Though some of the songs could stand on their own, the album begs to be listened to as a complete work. Fogelberg was stretching himself to ambitious heights, not only through his songwriting, singing, and turns on various instruments, but also by producing the album himself. Nether Lands both reflected and surpassed the '70s music sound and, most importantly, still resonates many years later. ~ Steve Matteo Nether Lands Review
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Purchase Nether Lands CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dan Fogelberg Innocent Age CDs (1981)
Nether Lands
 $15.79  
With The Innocent Age, Dan Fogelberg created the most ambitious, successful, and creative recording of his career and one that in retrospect was actually quite underrated. A sprawling, conceptual song cycle, the double album traces the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Beautifully orchestrated, imaginatively conceived, and obviously well thought out, it works as an artistic statement and also includes some ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Captured Angel CD (1975)
Nether Lands
$5.95  
Also available with HOME FREE on 1 cassette, and with SOUVENIRS and NETHER LANDS in a CD 3-pack.
Dan Fogelberg is a singer-songwriter in the confessional vein of Joni Mitchell; his work at this time was also heavily influenced by America, the Eagles, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. His most successful work dates from the 1970s and early 1980s. Fogelberg's best songs are generally those that have a little muscle to them ("Phoenix") or manage to transcend his penchant for cliched, sentimental lyrics and maudlin arrangements to be genuinely affecting ("There's a Place in the World for a Gambler"). This album is one of the weakest in his canon. Selections like "Next Time" and the title track are bland and bloodless, marred further by pedestrian performances and easy-way-out arrangements and production. Other numbers like "Below the Surface" and "These Days" are better in this regard, ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Home Free CD (1972)
Nether Lands
$5.95
This is a brand new 1988 digital remix done especially for CD by Norbert Putnam, who produced the original album.
Over the course of his career, Dan Fogelberg has become identified with a particular sort of heavily arranged soft rock. It is therefore particularly interesting to listen to his first album and hear him experimenting, seeking the balance between an overtly countrified sound and something more original and personal. Some things about Home Free show that Fogelberg had figured out his strengths well before he went near the studio. The songs here are better and more coherent than much of his later work, with a directness that makes it easy to gloss over the occasional banalities and platitudes. As always, his splendid delivery makes it easy to excuse the lyrical flaws; nobody else ever sounded this confessional and meditative while singing in front of a full orchestra. That string section appears on most tracks and sometimes verges on intrusive. Indeed, at times Norbert Putnam's production sounds so cinematic that one wonders if this is a film score, as on the opening "To the Morning." Happily, not every cut is this heavily produced, and lighter tunes like "Stars" and "Wysteria" have hints of country and bluegrass along with album-oriented rock in a style similar to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Phoenix CD (1980)
Nether Lands
$5.95
His first solo album since 1977's Netherlands, Phoenix was a fine effort but one that didn't add any new twists to Fogelberg's ever-expanding ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Twin Sons Of Different Mothers CD (1978)
Nether Lands
$5.95
Much like Joni Mitchell, Dan Fogelberg, primarily a singer/songwriter, sought to continue his musical growth on this release by adding jazz to his sound. Rather than simply employing jazz musicians as his musical ...
| | Dan Fogelberg Souvenirs CD (1974)
Nether Lands
$5.95
Also available in a 3-pack with CAPTURED ANGEL and NETHER LANDS.
On his second album, Dan Fogelberg expanded slightly on his sparse, countrified folk sound, adding ...
| | Melvins Stag CD (1996)
Nether Lands
$11.65
The repeating sitar-into-guitar-chord start of the album makes it clear that Stag isn't going to be quite like anything the Melvins had yet recorded to that point. There's such a strong and audible emphasis on the band really exploring the possibilities of the studio throughout that the effect is breathtaking -- it's a huge, epic sound that's also quite varied, a fine indication of where the band would be going in later years. The roots of the Melvins remain clear -- direct, deliberate, and focused crunch -- but they don't feel constrained by them, bringing in everything from more stripped-down space in the arrangements to stylistic forays revolving around the central approach. Hearing horns and scratching helping match the monster riffs on "Bar X the Rocking M" is at once a mind-f*ck and something that makes total sense, as does the mini-prog epic "Buck Owens," packing in time-signature shifts and a mid-section trip-out and more in three minutes' time. Short, almost fragmentary songs like "Hide," with its quiet guitar chime, and the weird, sparkly drones and burbles of "Soup" help to further flesh out the inspired feeling of Stag. Osborne's vocal delivery and various treatments thereupon are fantastic, ranging from dreamy float and gentle croon to rasping roar, paralleling Stag's overall emphasis on trying anything at least once to see what works. Check his winsome, light turn on "Black Bock" for a real trip -- it's hard to believe this is the same guy who sang on "Hooch" and "It's Shoved." Songs like "Tipping the Lion" and "Goggles" capture the spirit of Stag ...
| | Wow That's What I Call Bluegrass CD (2003)
Nether Lands
$14.29
CMH Records doesn't have a stellar reputation among bluegrass aficionados since the label cranks out schlock like the Pickin' On series at a frantic pace. Wow That's What I Call Bluegrass is a decent offering although it, too, has several shortcomings. First, it is billed as a "fantastic" introduction to bluegrass music, but it contains none of the seminal recordings that best represent the genre. It is hard to say exactly what it ...
| | Weeland Nachhaus Zuruck CD (2006) (Import)
Nether Lands
$18.39
| | Hansi Hinterseer Amore Mio CD (2000)
Nether Lands
$15.15
| | 14 Friendly Abductions: The Best Of Nina Hagen CD (1996)
Nether Lands
$5.95
Nina Hagen is a unique vocalist, ranging from a coloratura soprano to a guttural alto and phrasing in surprising, dramatically changing ...
| | Toto Isolation CD (1984)
Nether Lands
$5.95
Having traded in lead singer Bobby Kimball for Fergie Frederiksen, a smooth tenor wailer in the tradition of Journey's Steve Perry, Toto proceeded to follow its power ballad smash Toto IV with a Journey ...
| | Mickey Hart Planet Drum CD (1991) Reissue
Nether Lands
$10.09
The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart has long been noted for his contributions to world music. PLANET DRUM remains one of his most successful solo projects. Bringing together percussion legends from Brazil, West Africa, India, ...
| | Oestre La Piste Des Larmes CD (2008) (Import) Import
Nether Lands
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