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Label: MCA Records - MCA-2014 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Reissue Gatefold • Country: US • Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country • Style: Country, Classic Rock

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We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Elton John click here for complete listing. John played the song in the same set as what became the live album, though it has not been performed in concert since.

This song was also featured on the soundtrack to the film Elizabethtown , starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Rovi Corp. It is Murray's first appearance on an Elton John album.

In addition to several studio players who also performed on John's previous self-titled second album, several tracks feature backing musicians from the band Hookfoot , who were also his DJM Records label mates. Stewart also performed the song live with Elton John dressed as a hornet, live at a fund-raising gig at the Vicarage Road Stadium of the Watford Football Club the Watford Hornets on 5 May Nazareth were the opening act , the same month that Elton John's eighth album, Caribou was released for the price of 1 pound.

In , a bootleg CD was released called Tumbleweed Collection. This was a collection of piano demos and live tracks. Photographer Ian Digby Ovens [9] captured John seated to the right in the photo but appearing to the left on the front cover, shown above and Taupin standing to the left, on the back cover in front of the late-nineteenth-century station, to represent the album's rural Americana concept despite the English location.

Additional photos were taken from the interior of a train on the line for the album liner notes and libretto. In August , the Bluebell Railway announced that, to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the album, it had restored the station to look as it did when the cover photo was taken, giving people an opportunity to re-create the scene in their own photos.

Reviewing later for Allmusic , Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "Half of the songs don't follow conventional pop song structures; instead, they flow between verses and vague choruses. These experiments are remarkably successful, primarily because Taupin's lyrics are evocative and John's melodic sense is at its best.

Robert Christgau wrote in his Record Guide : "good melodies and bad Westerns on it. Why do people believe that these latter qualify as songpoems? Robert Hillburn wrote for Los Angeles Times : " Tumbleweed Connection is that near-perfect album that artists often spend a whole career trying to produce.

Music : "A step up from the slightly more overtly commercial Elton John Tumbleweed is beautifully recorded and filled with very fine songs Bordering on classic status. All tracks are written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin , except where noted. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the album by Elton John. For the musical of the same name, see Tumbleweed Connection musical.

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