Editing Nether Lands

{{hatnote group|
{{Distinguish|Netherlands}}{{other uses|Netherlands (disambiguation)}}
}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Nether Lands
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Dan Fogelberg]]
| cover      = Dan Fogelberg - Nether Lands.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 1977<ref name="official site">{{cite web |url=http://www.danfogelberg.com/infonetherlands.html |title=Nether Lands |author= |date= |publisher=Dan Fogelberg Official Website |accessdate=May 15, 2011}}</ref>
| recorded   = Caribou Ranch, [[Nederland, Colorado]], [[The Record Plant]], Los Angeles and [[Sausalito, California|Sausalito]], Quadraphonic Sound Studios, [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] and North Star Studio, [[Boulder, Colorado]]<ref name="official site"/>
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Soft rock]]
| length     = 43:59
| label      = [[Full Moon Records|Full Moon]]/[[Epic Records|Epic]]
| producer   = [[Dan Fogelberg]] and [[Norbert Putnam]]
| prev_title = [[Captured Angel]]
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [[Twin Sons of Different Mothers]]
| next_year  = 1978
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Nether Lands
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Love Gone By
 | single1date = 1977
 | single2     = Nether Lands
 | single2date = 1977
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score ={{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AM">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7556/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |pages=254, 255}}</ref>
|}}
'''''Nether Lands''''' is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter [[Dan Fogelberg]], released in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McParland |first1=Robert |title=Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s: 150+ Profiles |date=2022 |publisher=McFarland, Inc. |page=68}}</ref> The album title is a play on [[Nederland, Colorado]], the location of one of the studios used to record the album.

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Dan Fogelberg]].
#"Nether Lands" – 5:32
#"Once upon a Time" – 3:38
#"Dancing Shoes" – 3:28
#"Lessons Learned" – 4:52
#"Loose Ends" – 5:23
#"Love Gone By" – 3:04
#"Promises Made" – 3:18
#"Give Me Some Time" – 3:20
#"Scarecrow's Dream" For Don Quixote, Walt Disney and the Wizard of Oz – 4:10
#"Sketches" – 3:32
#"False Faces" – 4:52

==Personnel==
* Dan Fogelberg – vocals, [[electric piano|electric]] and [[acoustic piano]]s, [[ARP synthesizer]], electric and acoustic guitars, orchestral arrangement (1), finger cymbals (3), [[pipe organ]] (5), organ (6), sleigh bells and [[harpsichord]] (9)
* [[Kenneth A. Buttrey]] – drums (2, 6–8, 11), percussion (8)
* [[Al Perkins]] – dobro, pedal steel guitar
* [[Dominic Frontiere]] – orchestral arrangements and conductor (1, 11), arrangement (10)
* [[Don Henley]] – harmony vocals (2, 5, 6)
* [[Russ Kunkel]] – drums and [[conga]]s (4)
* [[Joe Lala]] – congas (6)
* [[Frank Marocco]] – [[accordion]] (3)
* [[Norbert Putnam]] – bass guitar, string quartet arrangement (3)
* [[JD Souther]] – harmony vocals (5), backing vocals (11)
* John Stronach – [[maraca]]s and [[tambourine]] (7)
* [[Joe Vitale (musician)|Joe Vitale]] – drums (5)
* [[Joe Walsh]] – rhythm electric guitar (5)
* [[Tim Weisberg]] – flute (8)

==Production==
* Produced by Dan Fogelberg and Norbert Putnam
* Engineer – John Stronach
* Mix-down Engineer – Marty Lewis
* Assistant Engineers – Jeff Guercio, Mark Guercio, John Henning, Marty Lewis, Bruce Hensal and Gary Landinsky.
* Recorded at:
** [[Caribou Ranch]], Nederland, Colorado
** [[Record Plant Studios]], Los Angeles, California
** Quadrafonic Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
** [[Record Plant]], Sausalito, California
** North Star Studios, Boulder, Colorado
* Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee.

==Other credits==
* Photography by Andy Katz, Boulder, Colorado.
* Design by [[John Kosh]]
* Interior painting by Dan Fogelberg

==Charts==
'''Album''' – ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' (United States)
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="550px"
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1977
|align="left"|Pop Albums<ref>{{cite web |title=Dan Fogelberg |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dan-fogelberg/ |website=Billboard |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
|align="left"|13
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Dan Fogelberg}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Dan Fogelberg albums]]
[[Category:1977 albums]]
[[Category:Albums arranged by David Campbell (composer)]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Norbert Putnam]]