Souvenirs (50th Anniversary Edition Remastered) Dan Fogelberg

• 1 Part of the Plan (2025 Remaster) 03:18
• 2 Illinois (2025 Remaster) 04:13
• 3 Changing Horses (2025 Remaster) 02:34
• 4 Better Change (2025 Remaster) 03:04
• 5 Souvenirs (2025 Remaster) 04:33
• 6 The Long Way (2025 Remaster) 03:55
• 7 As the Raven Flies (2025 Remaster) 04:31
• 8 Song from Half Mountain (2025 Remaster) 02:51
• 9 Morning Sky (2025 Remaster) 02:48
• 10 Someone's Been Telling You Stories (2025 Remaster) 05:32
• 11 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (2025 Remaster) 05:41
• 12 I Know A Thief (2025 Remaster) 04:21
• 13 As the Raven Flies (Alternate Take) (2025 Remaster) 05:12
• 14 Illinois (Alternate Take) (2025 Remaster) 04:50
• 15 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (Alternate Take) (2025 Remaster) 06:05
• Total Runtime 01:03:28

Info for Souvenirs (50th Anniversary Edition Remastered)

Dan Fogelberg’s seminal second album, Souvenirs, will be celebrated with a special 50th-anniversary release. The album, originally released in 1974, will be available as remastered edition in 96kHz/24bit, featuring bonus tracks via Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music.

Souvenirs marked a pivotal moment in Fogelberg’s career, solidifying his place as a leading voice in the singer-songwriter movement. Produced by Joe Walsh, the album showcased Fogelberg’s diverse musical talents and his ability to connect with audiences on a deeply personal level.

The 50th-anniversary edition has been meticulously remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering from a flat 1:1 transfer of the original analog tapes, ensuring the highest possible audio quality.

“Souvenirs was such an important album for Dan, and it holds a special place in the hearts of his fans,” said Azoff. “We wanted to create a 50th-anniversary edition that truly honors the album’s legacy and provides fans with both a unique and collectible experience.”

Souvenirs, produced by Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh, featured Fogelberg’s breakthrough song “Part of the Plan,” which was a top-40 hit. The album peaked at #17 on the Billboard chart and went on to be certified double Platinum.

The Souvenirs 50th Anniversary Edition is a testament to Dan Fogelberg’s enduring musical legacy and a must-have for collectors and fans alike.

Dan Fogelberg, lead vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, acoustic piano (except on 9 and 10), electric guitar (1, 2, 7), vibraphone (2), percussion (8, 11), Moog synthesizer (8, 11), zither (11)
Joe Walsh, electric 12-string guitar (1), acoustic 12-string guitar (1–4), electric 6-string guitar (2–11), ARP bass (5), backing vocals (6, 10)
Gerry Beckley, acoustic guitar (11)
Al Perkins, pedal steel guitar (2, 4), banjo (9)
Russ Kunkel, drums (except on 4), congas (3), percussion (3)
Don Henley, drums (4), backing vocals (4, 10)
Joe Lala, congas (1), timbales (1), tambourine (4)
Kenny Passarelli, bass, banjo (1–4, 7, 11), sousaphone (11)
Bryan Garofalo, bass (6, 9, 10)
Paul Harris, string arrangements (6), acoustic piano (9, 10)
Jimmie Haskell, accordion (5), string quartet arrangement (5)
Graham Nash, harmony vocals (1, 6)
Glenn Frey, backing vocals (10)
The Front Line Gardenia Choir (Don Henley, Randy Meisner, Jody Boyer and Marie Ouhrabka) (11)

Recorded at Record Plant and Elektra Sound Recorders (Los Angeles, CA)
Engineered by Allan Blazek, Fritz Richmond, John Stranoch and Bill Szymczyk
Mixed by John Stranoch
Mastered by Rick Collins at Kendun Recorders (Burbank, CA)

Newly remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Dan Fogelberg
was the youngest of three sons born to Lawrence and Margaret Fogelberg in Peoria, Illinois. Dan’s mother was a Scottish immigrant and a music educator, and his father was a band instructor with family roots in Sweden. His father’s career would later be the inspiration for the song “Leader of the Band.”

Starting out in local bands playing rock and roll, Fogelberg found his passion on acoustic guitar. He left his studies at the University of Illinois and headed for the West Coast, finding inspiration during a week in Colorado before moving on and securing a recording contract. For his second release, Souvenirs, Fogelberg enlisted producer Joe Walsh, who had recently recorded at Caribou Ranch near Nederland, and “Part of the Plan” went to the top of the charts.

While touring through Colorado in the mid-1970s, Fogelberg bought a house from Chris Hillman, situated 9,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains. His time there resulted in the songs on Nether Lands, a platinum seller. He recorded part of his next venture, Phoenix, in Colorado, and the songs “Heart Hotels” and “Longer” were pop hits.

The Innocent Age, released in October 1981, was Fogelberg’s critical and commercial peak. The double album included four of his biggest hits: “Same Old Lang Syne,” “Hard to Say,” “Leader of the Band” and “Run for the Roses.” He drew inspiration for The Innocent Age from Thomas Wolfe’s novel Of Time and the River.

A 1982 greatest-hits album contained two new songs, both of which were released as singles: “Missing You” and “Make Love Stay.” In 1984, he released the album Windows and Walls, which contained the singles “The Language of Love” and “Believe in Me.”

Fogelberg built what would become his ultimate home and recording studio in the San Juan mountains near Pagosa Springs. After a weekend at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival sitting in with friends and bluegrass legends, Fogelberg recorded High Country Snows with some of his favorite acoustic pickers, and that album became one of the best-selling bluegrass albums of all time. The Wild Places, released in 1990, was the first album he self-produced and mostly tracked at his Mountain Bird Ranch. His rendition of the Cascades’ 1963 hit “Rhythm of the Rain” peaked at No. 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Like Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther, he understood that hit songs were often generational.

After an injury to his hand, Fogelberg turned to performing solo and in varied acoustic settings. And then, in May 2004, he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. He continued recording with friends and the help of skilled engineers like James Tuttle until he finally succumbed to the disease on December 16, 2007. He died at his home. He was only 56 years old. Fogelberg wrote “Sometimes a Song” for his wife Jean in 2005. She released the song on the Internet, and all proceeds went to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. The song was released on Valentine’s Day 2008 and was also included on a CD released in September 2009 titled Love in Time.

In 2017, when Dan Fogelberg was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, the Hall donated half the profits to help in the fight against prostate cancer.

If James Taylor epitomized the definition and the original, late-'60s incarnation of the term singer/songwriter, Dan Fogelberg exemplified the late-'70s equivalent of that term at its most highly developed and successful, with a string of platinum-selling albums and singles into the early '80s and a long career afterward, interrupted only by a health crisis that led to his untimely death in 2007. He came out of a musical family, born Daniel Grayling Fogelberg on August 13, 1951, in Peoria, IL, where his father was an established musician, teacher, and bandleader. His first instrument was the piano, which he took to well enough, and music mattered to him more than the sports that were the preoccupation of most of the boys around him. At age ten, he was saving and listening to any old records he could find. And if there's a "God-shaped space" in everyone, Fogelberg's was filled with music, something his family might've guessed if they'd seen how much he loved the music in church but was bored by the sermons. His other great passions were drawing and painting. His personal musical turning point came in the early '60s, before he'd reached his teens. A gift of an old Hawaiian guitar from his grandfather introduced him to the instrument that would soon supplant the piano, and at age 12, he heard the Beatles for the first time, which not only led him to a revelation about how electric guitars could sound, but also made him notice for the first time the act of songwriting as something central to what musicians did. It was also at that point that he began picking up on the music of Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Buddy Holly, all of whom were, of course, in the Beatles' repertory. ... (By Bruce Eder)

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