Love Chronicles

For the film, see Love Chronicles (film).
Love Chronicles
Studio album by Al Stewart
Released September 1969 (UK), January 1970 (US)
Recorded 1968-1969
Genre Folk
Length 43:03
Label CBS (UK), Epic (US)
Producer Roy Guest, co-producers: John Wood, Al Stewart
Al Stewart chronology
Bed-Sitter Images
(1967)		 Love Chronicles
(1969)		 Zero She Flies
(1970)
Professional ratings
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Allmusic [1]

Love Chronicles is the second studio album of Scottish folk artist Al Stewart, released in September 1969. It was also his first album to be released in the US (in January 1970). Among the supporting musicians were Jimmy Page and four members of Fairport Convention: Bassist Ashley Hutchings, guitarist Simon Nicol (listed as "Simon Breckenridge"), drummer Martin Lamble (as Martyn Francis) and guitarist Richard Thompson (listed as "Marvyn Prestwick").[2] Largely written during a deep depression, the songwriting is generally stark and features what is usually credited as the first use of the word "f***ing" in popular commercial music. At least one song, "Old Compton Street Blues", was apparently recorded with a heavy cold.

Love Chronicles is commercially available in the UK as part of a double compilation album "To Whom It May Concern", which is an anthology of Stewart's first three albums. In 2007 Love Chronicles was issued for the first time on CD and includes bonus tracks.

Contents

Track listing

Original LP Release

Side A:

  1. "In Brooklyn"
  2. "Old Compton Street Blues"
  3. "The Ballad of Mary Foster"
  4. "Life and Life Only"

Side B:

  1. "You Should Have Listened To Al"
  2. "Love Chronicles"

Cassette Release

Side 1:

  1. "You Should Have Listened To Al"
  2. "Old Compton Street Blues"
  3. "The Ballad of Mary Foster"
  4. "Life and Life Only"

Side 2:

  1. "In Brooklyn"
  2. "Love Chronicles"

2007 Collectors' Choice Music edition

  1. "In Brooklyn" - 3:43
  2. "Old Compton Street Blues" - 4:26
  3. "The Ballad of Mary Foster" - 8:02
  4. "Life and Life Only" - 5:49
  5. "You Should Have Listened to Al" - 3:02
  6. "Love Chronicles" - 18:04

Bonus tracks

  1. "Jackdaw" - 3:20
  2. "She Follows Her Own Rules" - 3:18
  3. "Fantasy" - 2:15

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Thane Tierney: Liner Notes to Love Chronicles (Collectors' Choice Music reissue) at Discogs
  3. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/22/brian-brocklehurst-obituary Brian Brocklehurst obituary

External links

Studio Albums
Bed-Sitter Images (1967) · Love Chronicles (1969) · Zero She Flies (1970) · Orange (1972) · Past, Present and Future (1973) · Modern Times (1975) · Year of the Cat (1976) · Time Passages (1978) · 24 Carrots (1980) · Russians and Americans (1984) · Last Days of the Century (1988) · Famous Last Words (1993) · Between the Wars (1995) · Down in the Cellar (2000) · A Beach Full of Shells (2005) · Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)
Live albums
Live/Indian Summer (1981) · Rhymes in Rooms (1992) · Uncorked (2009)