F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives, but Tim Buckley wouldn't listen. Morning Glory brings together the two extraordinary, albeit all-too-brief, incarnations of Buckley's musical career: the pure-voiced '60s troubadour who gave us stunningly beautiful albums like Goodbye & Hello and the howling early-'70s experimentalist seemingly hell-bent on ravaging his past romanticism. For those put off by the tortured, erratic brilliance that came to the fore on the difficult Starsailor and downright strange Greetings from L.A. albums, this two-CD, 34-song anthology nicely condenses the artist's nine-album, nine-year evolution from folk innocent to soul-scorched iconoclast. Heard in this context, the title song's tale of a sheltered romantic who befriends and ultimately condemns an uncompromising vagrant feels like it's the young Buckley confronting the artist he would later become. Profoundly moving and richly rewarding, Morning Glory finds resonance between the two sides of Buckley's genius that he was unable to reconcile in his own short life. - Bill Forman

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wings
2. She Is
3. Song Slowly Song
4. It Happens Every Time
5. Aren't You The Girl
6. Pleasant Street
7. Hallucinations
8. No Man Can Find The War
9. Once I Was
10. Morning Glory
11. Goodbye And Hello
12. Buzzin' Fly
13. Strange Feelin'
14. Sing A Song For You
15. Phantasmagoria In Two - (Live)
16. I've Been Out Walking - (Live)
17. Troubador - (Live)

Disc 2:

1. Happy Time
2. Chase The Blues Away
3. I Must Have Been Blind
4. River, The
5. So Lonely
6. Blue Melody
7. I Had A Talk With My Woman - (Live)
8. Moulin Rouge
9. Song To The Siren
10. Monterey
11. Sweet Surrender
12. Hong Kong Bar
13. Make It Right
14. Sally Go 'round The Roses
15. Who Could Deny You
16. Song To The Siren - (From "The Monkees" Tv Show)