Dream Letter: Live in London 1968

A concert with Danny Thompson on bass, recorded in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Tim Buckley, 1990

Released
1990
Recorded
7 October 1968
Studio
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Type
live

Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 7 October 1968, and mistakenly credited as 10 July because of confusion between American and British date formats. For lack of funds Buckley could not bring his regular bass player John Miller and conga player Carter C.C. Collins, so he played with the Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson, Lee Underwood on guitar and David Friedman on vibraphone. Pete Drummond of BBC Radio 1 introduces the set. It draws on Goodbye and Hello and on the then unreleased Happy Sad, and five of its tracks had never been heard on record when it came out in 1990.

Trouser Press called it a superb two-hour live set, praising the full-band Morning Glory and Dolphins, a Fred Neil song, and the solo Wayfaring Stranger and a Pleasant Street that segues into You Keep Me Hanging On. In 2000 it was voted number 756 in Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

Track listing

  1. Introduction1:06
  2. Buzzin' Fly6:13
  3. Phantasmagoria in Two4:41
  4. Morning Glory3:43
  5. Dolphins6:39
  6. I've Been Out Walking8:18
  7. The Earth Is Broken6:59
  8. Who Do You Love9:27
  9. Pleasant Street / You Keep Me Hanging On7:58
  10. Love from Room 109 / Strange Feelin'12:18
  11. Carnival Song / Hi Lily, Hi Lo8:50
  12. Hallucinations7:14
  13. Troubadour6:04
  14. Dream Letter / Happy Time9:25
  15. Wayfaring Stranger / You Got Me Runnin'13:08
  16. Once I Was4:29

Personnel

More from Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley (1966), Goodbye and Hello (1967), Happy Sad (1969), Lorca (1970), Starsailor (1970), Greetings from L.A. (1972)

Sources

  1. Dream Letter: Live in London 1968, Wikipedia
  2. Tim Buckley, Trouser Press