Blue Afternoon

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Blue Afternoon

| type = studio

| artist = Tim Buckley

| cover = Tim Buckley Blue Afternoon Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 24 November 1969

| recorded = 1969

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = *Psychedelic folk

• folk jazz

| length = 40:47

| label = *Straight (LP)

• Enigma Retro (CD)

| producer = Tim Buckley

| prev_title = Happy Sad

| prev_year = 1969

| next_title = Lorca

| next_year = 1970

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score ={{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Wilson |last=Neate |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/r2885 |title=Blue Afternoon – Review |website=AllMusic

|access-date=6 August 2020}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

}}

Blue Afternoon is the fourth studio album by Tim Buckley, released in November 1969. It is Tim Buckley's first self-produced record and his debut for Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa's label Straight Records. The album used the same group of musicians as Happy Sad (1969) with the addition of drummer Jimmy Madison. It presaged Buckley's most experimental work on his subsequent two albums.{{cite web |first=Martin |last=Chilton |date=24 November 2021 |title=Blue Afternoon: A New Creative Dawn for Tim Buckley |url=https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/blue-afternoon-tim-buckley-album/ |website=Thisisdig.com |access-date=7 April 2023}}

Several tracks on Blue Afternoon are songs Buckley had intended to record on earlier albums but had not completed. "Chase the Blues Away" and "Happy Time" are numbers he had worked on in the summer of 1968 for possible inclusion on Happy Sad and demos can be heard on the Rhino label's Works in Progress album.

Blue Afternoon, like Starsailor, was re-released as a stand-alone album on CD format only once in the United States, in 1989 on the Enigma Retro label. It was then later re-issued by Warners/Rhino Records UK in 2011 as part of the Original Album Series box set,{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205133956/http://www.rhino.co.uk/store/products%2Coriginal-album-series_39812.htm |archive-date=5 December 2011 |title=Original Album Series |url=http://www.rhino.co.uk/store/products%2Coriginal-album-series_39812.htm |website=Rhino.com |access-date=7 April 2023}} with Buckley's four LPs released on Elektra Records, and again in 2017 by Rhino as part of the collection Tim Buckley - The Complete Album Collection, featuring his first 7 albums plus a re-release of Works in Progress.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}