“Buzzin' Fly” by Tim Buckley

Tim Buckley wrote both the music and the words to "Buzzin' Fly", and on Happy Sad, his third album, released in April 1969, that marked a change: he had stopped working with Larry Beckett, the lyricist on his two previous records, and started writing his own. Zal Yanovsky and Jerry Yester, both Lovin' Spoonful alumni, produced it at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles, with Bruce Botnick engineering.

The sound drifts and glows. Buckley sings and plays 12-string guitar, Lee Underwood adds guitar and John Miller acoustic guitar, and David Friedman's vibraphone hangs over it all like warm air, the instrument that gives Happy Sad its relaxed tone, on a record where Buckley let jazz into his music for the first time.

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