Look at the Fool

Look at the Fool
Look at the Fool
Studio album by Tim Buckley
Released	September 1974
Recorded	1974
Studio	Wally Heider Studios and Record Plant, Los Angeles
Genre	Funk, folk, soul
Length	34:16
Label	DiscReet Records LP; Enigma Retro CD; Manifesto ; Rhino
Producer	Joe Falsia
Tim Buckley chronology

Look at the Fool is the ninth and last album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley released in September 1974, before his death in June 1975. It was recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studios and Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
OOR Magazine	(positive) link
Rolling Stone	(negative) link^{[dead link]}

Track listing[]

All tracks written by Tim Buckley, except ‡ by Larry Beckett/Buckley.

Side One

"Look at the Fool" – 5:13
"Bring It On Up" – 3:27
"Helpless" – 3:20
"Freeway Blues"‡ – 3:12
"Tijuana Moon"‡ – 2:41

Side Two

"Ain't It Peculiar" – 3:36
"Who Could Deny You" – 4:23
"Mexicali Voodoo" – 2:25
"Down in the Street" – 3:21
"Wanda Lu" – 2:38

Note: Original vinyl pressings list "Down in the Street" as the final track with "Wanda Lu" as track 9 on the sleeve, but has the correct running order listed on the disc itself.

Personnel[]

Tim Buckley – guitar, vocals
Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
Joe Falsia – guitar, bass guitar, arranger, producer
Jim Fielder, Jim Hughart, Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
Jesse Ehrlich – cello
David Bluefield – clavinet on "Freeway Blues"
Mike Melvoin – organ, piano, Moog synthesizer
Mark Tiernan – electric piano
Terry Harrington – horn, saxophone
Richard Nash, William Peterson, John Rotella, Anthony Terran – horn
King Errisson – congas
Gary Coleman – percussion
Earl Palmer – drums

Technical

Stan Agol – recording and mixdown engineer
Wally Heider – mixing
Cal Schenkel – art direction
Napoleon – cover illustration