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It's about time

Yippierb | New Ipswich, NH. USA | 09/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After years of waiting/searching a Hookfoot album is available on cd. Hookfoot was and remains one of my favorite little bands. I never saw them live but have treaured their first three albums. All were lost in a move 4 years ago so I was thrilled when my regular search finally showed that someone had enough sense to get this out on disc. Now let's get Good Times Coming and Communication out there with some (relavent)bonus tracks and a remaster! Live in Memphis is always unavailable? The bonus tracks on this disc,while interesting, don't add to the original album. They are from a later session/incarnations of the band and don't fit the mood of this release. The original quartet only lasted for the first two albums. They changed bass players for #3 Communication but it still has some Ian Duck and Caleb Quaye(excuse spelling if wrong) gems. I would like to have some of the tracks released without the fade outs from the original album. If you have never heard of this band the first two albums, Hookfoot and Good Times Coming, are essential Hookfoot. All of the first three albums have a different feel. "Hookfoot" has more acoustic than "Goodtimes". Movies and Coombe Gallows, great playing. Well worth a listen. These guys are great musicians."

The Best Underground English Band Of The Early Seventies

Ralph G. Richins | KC , MO USA | 12/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Caleb Quaye was too talented of a musician to stay with Elton John's band. Teaming up with Ian Duck was the basis for the chemistry of the band. Their music was unique and very tight. Coomb Gallows is as masterful a ballad as you will find. The album flows and the musical talent of Hookfoot is heard on every cut. I would recomend this album to everyone and especially if you were into music in the late 60's and early 70's"

Superb American-inflected 70s Britrock

Paul Reynolds | New York NY | 05/16/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I actually saw these guys live, as the opener for King Crimson--hardly their musical soulmates!--in Aylesbury, England in 1971, before this album was even out. Their set knocked me out with its crisp musicianship and fiery passion, and the subsequent album is no less assured. They're immersed in the US country-rock of the late 60s (note the cover of Buffalo Springfield's Bluebird) and it's no surprise that guitarist Caleb Quaye played on Tumbleweed Connection, the most Americana-like album of Elton John's career, and arguably his best, too.



Quaye eventually dropped out of music to become an evangelical preacher in Florida. He made a quiet return a number of years back, releasing a jazz fusionish album under his own name. It's not bad, but not its not near as good as this album; the same applies to the other Hookfoot releases, in my opinion. Highly recommended for fans of Brit Americana a la Brinsley Schwarz, Help Yourself, and Home."