The Innocent Age
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| Released | August 1981 | |||
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| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 80:01 | |||
| Label | Full Moon/Epic | |||
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The Innocent Age is the seventh studio album and only double album by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1981. It was one of his most successful albums: three of his four Top 10 singles on the Billboard pop chart ("Hard to Say" (no. 7), "Same Old Lang Syne" (no. 9), and "Leader of the Band" (no. 9)) were from this album, as well as another Top 20 single in "Run for the Roses" (no. 18). All four also reached the Top 10 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, with "Leader of the Band" reaching number 1 on that chart.
The album includes his song "Times Like These", from the 1980 Urban Cowboy soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Glenn Frey and Don Henley are prominent contributing vocalists.
The Innocent Age drew its inspiration from Thomas Wolfe's major novel Of Time and the River. The Innocent Age was originally released as a two-LP vinyl set and later as a two-disc CD set.
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [2] |
AllMusic retrospectively described the album as "beautifully orchestrated, imaginatively conceived, and obviously well thought out, it works as an artistic statement and also includes some of Fogelberg's most universally appealing and commercially successful music."[1] The Rolling Stone Album Guide deemed the album "banal and overblown."[2]
Track listing
All tracks written by Dan Fogelberg, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Nexus" | 6:04 |
| 2. | "The Innocent Age" | 4:15 |
| 3. | "The Sand and the Foam" | 4:19 |
| 4. | "In the Passage" | 6:28 |
| 5. | "Lost in the Sun" | 3:53 |
| 6. | "Run for the Roses" | 4:18 |
| 7. | "Leader of the Band (concludes with an excerpt from "The Washington Post" march arranged by Lawrence Peter Fogelberg, performed by the UCLA Band)" | 4:48 |
| 8. | "Same Old Lang Syne" | 5:21 |
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| 1. | "Stolen Moments" | 3:12 | |
| 2. | "The Lion's Share" | 5:10 | |
| 3. | "Only the Heart May Know" (duet with Emmylou Harris) | 4:09 | |
| 4. | "The Reach" | 6:30 | |
| 5. | "Aireshire Lament" | 0:52 | |
| 6. | "Times Like These" (from the 1980 Urban Cowboy Soundtrack) | 3:02 | |
| 7. | "Hard to Say" | 4:00 | |
| 8. | "Empty Cages" | Fogelberg, Russ Kunkel, Norbert Putnam, Michael Utley | 6:24 |
| 9. | "Ghosts" | 7:16 |
