Greetings from L.A.

Greetings from L.A.
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1972
RecordedJune 1972
StudioFar Out Studios, Hollywood, California
GenreFunk, R&B
Length39:38
LabelStraight Records LP
Enigma Retro CD
ProducerJerry Goldstein
Tim Buckley chronology
Starsailor
(1970)
Greetings from L.A.
(1972)
Sefronia
(1973)

Greetings from L.A. is the seventh album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in August 1972. It was recorded at Far Out Studios in Hollywood, California. Like most of his other albums, Greetings from L.A. did not sell well, although this is probably his best seller (there are at least 2 different US pressings: the first with removable postcard and dark green WB label, the second had no perforations for the postcard and had the Burbank WB label), getting substantial airplay in the Twin Cities on the Minneapolis FM station KQRS and selling very well at the independent record shops in Minneapolis-St. Paul and elsewhere (Detroit, New York, etc.) until it was deleted by Warner Brothers (whereupon Greetings continued to sell as a UK/European import into the 80s).

The album was later re-released on November 7, 2005, in a compilation with debut album Tim Buckley by Elektra.

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