Look at the Fool

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Look at the Fool
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1974
Recorded1974
Studio Wally Heider Studios and Record Plant, Los Angeles
Genre Funk, folk, soul
Length34:16
Label DiscReet Records LP
Enigma Retro CD
Manifesto
Rhino
Producer Joe Falsia
Tim Buckley chronology
Sefronia
(1973)
Look at the Fool
(1974)
The Late Great Tim Buckley
(1978)

Look at the Fool is the ninth and last album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley released in September 1974, before his death in June 1975. It was recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studios and Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Tim Buckley, except ‡ by Larry Beckett/Buckley.

Side One

  1. "Look at the Fool" – 5:13
  2. "Bring It On Up" – 3:27
  3. "Helpless" – 3:20
  4. "Freeway Blues"‡ – 3:12
  5. "Tijuana Moon"‡ – 2:41

Side Two

  1. "Ain't It Peculiar" – 3:36
  2. "Who Could Deny You" – 4:23
  3. "Mexicali Voodoo" – 2:25
  4. "Down in the Street" – 3:21
  5. "Wanda Lu" – 2:38

Note: Original vinyl pressings list "Down in the Street" as the final track with "Wanda Lu" as track 9 on the sleeve, but has the correct running order listed on the disc itself.

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