| Starsailor | ||||
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| Released | November 1970 | |||
| Recorded | September 10–21, 1970 | |||
| Studio | Whitney Studios, Glendale, California | |||
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| Length | 36:00 | |||
| Label | Straight | |||
| Producer | Tim Buckley | |||
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Starsailor is the sixth studio album by Tim Buckley, released on Herb Cohen's Straight Records label in November 1970. Starsailor marks Buckley's full embrace of avant-garde and jazz-rock styles into his music. Although it alienated elements of his fanbase upon release,[1] it also contains his best known song, "Song to the Siren", which was written much earlier than the rest of the material. Bunk Gardner, a former member of the Mothers of Invention, joined Buckley's backing band to record the album. Also, Buckley began working again with lyricist Larry Beckett, after a three-album hiatus.
Leontyne Price attended a concert in New York City during the supporting tour and told Buckley, "Boy, I wish they were writing things like that for us opera singers," to which Buckley responded, "Well, do what I did; get your own band."
"Starsailor" is a literal English rendering of the Greek-derived word "astronaut."