Look at the Fool

Look at the Fool
Look at the Fool
Studio album by Tim Buckley
Released	September 13, 1974
Studios	Wally Heider, Los Angeles; Record Plant, Los Angeles;
Genres	Rock; soul;
Length	33:56
Label	DiscReet
Producer	Joe Falsia
Tim Buckley chronology

Look at the Fool is the ninth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released on September 13, 1974, by DiscReet Records.

Look at the Fool received mixed reviews. AllMusic's Richie Unterberger gave the album one-and-a-half stars out of five, calling it "a sad, burned-out affair" and noting that Buckley was starting to lose his voice, which Unterberger said was "distressingly thin."^[1] OOR Magazine was more positive, calling it "the best Buckley album in many years."

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
OOR Magazine	(positive) link
Rolling Stone	(negative) link

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Buckley, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Look at the Fool"	5:10
2.	"Bring It on Up"	3:26
3.	"Helpless"	3:18
4.	"Freeway Blues" (Tim Buckley, Larry Beckett)	3:10
5.	"Tijuana Moon" (Buckley, Beckett)	2:38
Total length:		17:42

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Ain't It Peculiar"	3:34
2.	"Who Could Deny You"	4:20
3.	"Mexicali Voodoo"	2:23
4.	"Down in the Street"	3:20
5.	"Wanda Lu"	2:37
Total length:		16:14 33:56

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

References

1 2 3 4 Unterberger, Richie. Look at the Fool Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2022. Cite error: The named reference "AllMusic" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[AllMusic-1] 1 2 3 4 Unterberger, Richie. Look at the Fool Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2022. Cite error: The named reference "AllMusic" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

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