page_title: Tumbleweed Connection
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Tumbleweed Connection / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: MCA Records Inc. Presents to Bernie Taupin to Commemorate Unit Sales in Excess of One Million UNI Record Albums, "Tumbleweed Connection"
context_page_description: Tumbleweed Connection is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released in October 1970 in the United Kingdom and January 1971 in the United States. It is a concept album based on country and western/Americana themes.
context_section_description: The album peaked at #2 on the UK Albums Chart and #5 on the US Billboard 200 chart. In the US, it was certified gold in March 1971 and platinum in August 1998 by the RIAA.
  In 2012, Tumbleweed Connection was ranked #458 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson appear for the first time together on this album as the rhythm section on "Amoreena". Olsson had played on one track on Empty Sky for John in 1969. 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. Hookfoot guitarist Caleb Quaye and drummer Roger Pope had also appeared on John's "Empty Sky" album.
  No singles were released from the album in the US by either DJM or John's US distributor, Universal Records, but "Country Comfort" (b/w "Love Song") was released as a single in New Zealand.
  "Country Comfort" was recorded in 1970 for Gasoline Alley, the second album by Rod Stewart. 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 1974 (Nazareth were the opening act), the same month that Elton John's eighth album, Caribou was released for the price of 1 pound. Australian country singer Keith Urban recorded a cover of "Country Comfort" on his 2004 album Be Here.
  In 1998, a bootleg CD was released called Tumbleweed Collection. This was a collection of piano demos and live tracks.
caption: Tumbleweed Connection Platinum Record
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