The Innocent Age by Dan Fogelberg

The Innocent Age, released in 1981, was Dan Fogelberg's seventh studio album and the only double album of his career, a sprawling, self-produced set that took its inspiration from Thomas Wolfe's novel Of Time and the River. It's soft rock with literary ambitions, and Fogelberg, a multi-instrumentalist, fills all four sides with reflective, finely carved tunes that take their time.

Guests lend their voices too: Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Glenn Frey and Don Henley all turn up, and the set also gathers "Times Like These" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack of 1980. Three of his four top-10 pop hits came from it, "Hard to Say" (number 7), "Same Old Lang Syne" and "Leader of the Band" (both number 9), with "Run for the Roses" reaching number 18 as well. All four reached the adult contemporary top 10, where "Leader of the Band" went all the way to number one.

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