"Time" and Time Again
Fredric A. Cooper | Los Angeles, CA | 05/14/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The haunting "Time", recorded for a small label but picked up by Columbia, introduced this band to the radio back in the glorious year of 1966. "Time" remains the band's masterpiece, but this collection of their two Columbia albums plus 2 non-LP singles contains a number of other evocative tracks worth discovering. "Blue Eyes", the final song from their 2nd LP, is particularly fine, with some really lovely acoustic guitar playing. Their version of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", a Top 20 hit for The Springfields and also recorded by The Cowsills for a single release, is the best version of this song I've heard. It is more relaxed than other versions and is quite appealing. "I Can Make It With You", the band's other major hit (and their highest charting single) was written by Chip Taylor and in the liner notes he recalls how the song was written as fast as he could sing it. With this fine collection of folk-pop tracks it is "Time" again for The Pozo-Seco (named after a town in Texas, by the way) Singers to shine."