Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg Reissue: ‘No Resemblance Whatsoever’

The late soft-rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dan Fogelberg had four platinum and double platinum LPs to his credit by the time he collaborated with flutist Tim Weisberg on 1978’s Twin Sons of Different Mothers, which also achieved double-platinum status. No Resemblance Whatsoever, their 1995 follow-up which has just been remastered and reissued, didn’t sell nearly as well but should have.

On the album, which Fogelberg and Weisberg co-produced, the former handles all vocals, keyboards and guitars while the latter plays assorted flutes and piccolos. Backed by more than a dozen other musicians and singers, they perform eight Fogelberg compositions, six of which are instrumentals. Also featured are two fine Jesse Colin Young numbers that fit perfectly with the rest of the program: “Sunlight,” in a version that apes the original from the Youngbloods’ Elephant Mountain; and “Songbird,” the title track from Young’s sixth solo studio LP.

There are times when No Resemblance Whatsoever veers dangerously close to elevator music, but there are also moments of beauty that will make you wish a third collaboration had happened. Alas, though the pair seem in sync throughout this recording, they didn’t stay on the same wavelength for long: two years after this album’s original release, Weisberg sued his erstwhile partner, charging fraud and breach of contract.

[Fogelberg died in 2007 at age 56. Weisberg was born January 1, 1943. The January 24, 2025, CD reissue from Omnivore Recordings was mastered by multiple Grammy winner Michael Graves. It’s also available for the first time on vinyl. Both can be ordered in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.]

Related: An interview with Dan Fogelberg

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