People often mock John Denver for his supermellow, sticky-sweet wholesomeness, yet hardly anyone ever picks on Dan Fogelberg, who traffics in the same trite, treacly sentiments that made Denver a pet peeve (and, of course, several million dollars).

Fogelberg's work not only utilizes numberless storybook-romantic platitudes but also every laid-back, folk-rock cliché that's flitted down the...

Captured Angel is a transitional album for Dan Fogelberg, originally an acoustic singer/songwriter, who is developing into an accomplished exponent of Eagles-styled rock. Few talents surpass Fogelberg in musical versatility. Captured Angel, his self-produced third album, has him playing guitars, keyboards, bass, percussion, banjo and Arp, in addition to overdubbing perfect falsetto harmonies on...

I happen to like "The Language of Love," the new single from Dan Fogelberg's ninth album. I like the squealy organ chords, the moderately rockish guitar solo and Fogelberg's hoarse, relatively passionate vocal. Okay? Aside from that cut, Windows and Walls is beyond serious criticism, a collection from the Rocky Mountain Mantovani that's mawkish enough to make Dan "Sometimes When We Touch" Hill...

Dan Fogelberg has grown from a promising singer/songwriter into the most popular romantic illustrator of smart California wallpaper. Defined by diffuse, monochromatic guitar textures, lead vocals that sound like heavenly chorales, dreamily streamlined rhythms and a yearning, mystical sensibility that's attracted to nineteenth-century classical music as much as to rock & roll, Fogelberg's billowy...