Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg

Nether Lands, Dan Fogelberg's fourth album, arrived in 1977 on Full Moon and Epic, and he produced it himself. The title is a sly pun: one of the studios where he cut it sat in Nederland, Colorado, and the record has the unhurried, far-from-the-city calm to match.

This is soft rock at its most unguarded, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist stretching out on reflective songs, with the title track the one that has lingered longest. The hits that would make him a soft-rock fixture on the radio, "Longer" and "Same Old Lang Syne", were still a couple of years down the road.

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