''Captured Angel'' is the third album by American singer-songwriter
Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American musician, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his 1970s and 1980s songs, including " Longer" (1979), " Same Old Lang Syne" (1980), and ...
, released in 1975.
He promoted the album with a tour in support of
The Eagles
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s ...
.
The album peaked at No. 23 on the
''Billboard'' 200. It has sold more than a million copies.
Production
The album was produced by Fogelberg. He alone recorded all of the instrumental parts before being convinced by his label to allow for a few re-recordings and contributions by other musicians.
The majority of the album was recorded at a studio in
South Pekin, Illinois
South Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,146 at the 2010 census and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
South Pekin was incorporated on April 12, 1917, five mi ...
; Fogelberg had returned home to care for his ill father.
Critical reception
''
Stereo Review
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'' praised Fogelberg's musicianship, but wrote that as a singer "he sounds raw, unsure, and at times even amateurish, particularly when any emotionality is involved."
Track listing
All songs written by Dan Fogelberg.
Side one
#"Aspen/These Days" – 7:39
#"Comes and Goes" – 2:25
#"Captured Angel" – 2:57
#"Old Tennessee" – 3:07
#"Next Time" – 4:10
Side two
#"Man in the Mirror/ Below the Surface" – 7:10
#"Crow" – 4:40
#"The Last Nail" – 5:30
Personnel
*Dan Fogelberg –
banjo, bass guitar (except on "Captured Angel", "Old Tennessee" and "Next Time"), guitar, harmonica, percussion (except on "Comes and Goes", keyboards, lead and backing vocals,
ARP synthesizer
ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman
in 1969. It created a popular and commercially successful range of synthesizers throughout the 1970s before de ...
*Hot Damn Brothers – backing vocals on "Next Time"
*
Russ Kunkel
Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician with many popular artists, including Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Chapin, Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dan F ...
– drums, percussion on "Comes and Goes"
*
David Lindley –
fiddle on "Crow"
*
Al Perkins
Al Perkins (born January 18, 1944) is an American guitarist known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential dobro player" and began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2 ...
–
pedal steel guitar on "Next Time"
*
Norbert Putnam
Norbert Auvin Putnam (born August 10, 1942) is an American musician, studio owner and record producer who was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.Robert McFarland, Jr"Norbert Putnam."'' Delta Business Journal''. November 2004. Acce ...
– bass on "Captured Angel", "Old Tennessee" and "Next Time"
*
J.D. Souther – backing vocals on "Next Time"
*Glen Spreen – string arrangements on "Aspen", "Next Time" and "The Last Nail"
Production
* Producer – Dan Fogelberg
* Engineers – Tom Byler, Jeff Guercio, Terry Jamison, Gary Ladinsky and John Stronach.
* Recorded at Golden Voice Studios (South Pekin, IL);
Caribou Ranch
Caribou Ranch was a recording studio built by producer James William Guercio in 1972 in a converted barn on ranch property in the Rocky Mountains near Nederland, Colorado, on the road that leads to the ghost town of Caribou. The studio was in op ...
(Nederland, CO);
Record Plant LA (Los Angeles, CA);
Record Plant (Sausalito, CA).
* Mixed by John Stronach at
Record Plant (Sausalito, CA).
* Mastered by Rick Collins at Kendun Recorders (Burbank, CA).
* Design – Ron Coro
* Photography –
Henry Diltz
Henry Stanford Diltz (born September 6, 1938, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American folk musician and photographer who has been active since the 1960s.
Career
Among the bands Diltz played with was the Modern Folk Quartet. While a member of ...
* Cover Artwork – Dan Fogelberg
Charts
Album – ''
Billboard'' (North America)
References
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Dan Fogelberg albums
1975 albums