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Artist: Hearts & FlowersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Now Is The Time
- Save Some Time
- Try For The Sun
- Rain, Rain
- The View From Ward 3
- Rock And Roll Gypsies
- Reason To Believe
- Please
- 1-2-3 Rhyme In Carnivour Thyme
- I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
- Road To Nowhere
- 10,000 Sunsets
- Now Is The Time For Hearts And Flowers
- Highway In The Wind
- Second-Hand Sundown Queen
- She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
- Ode To A Tin Angel
- When I Was A Cowboy
- Legend Of Ol' Tenbrookes
- Colour Your Daytime
- Two Little Boys
- Medley: Extra Extra/Rock And Roll Gypsies/Extra Extra
- Rosana
- Extra Extra
- Walls
- She Like Her Loving Like I Like Mine
- Six White Horses
- Flower Lady
- When I'm With You
- Gypsy Blue
- Everybody's Talkin'
- California Sunshine Girl
- Jones Vs. Jones
- Brandy
- Other Side Of This Life
Free Music Notes for Complete Hearts & Flowers
Free Music Review: Little known and long forgotten country-tinged folk-rock gems
Hit: 5 Stars
This Los Angeles based trio is among a handful of '60s groups to turn out stellar major-label releases to little or no acclaim, and only faint memory among the few who heard them at the time. Their two Capitol albums of West Coast country-inflected folk-rock predated or paralleled many which found fame, such as efforts from The Beau Brummels, Byrds, Dillards and Flying Burrito Brothers, and matched them in quality and innovation. This is a perfect storm of folk and rock, with country touches, sunshine-pop production and age-of-Aquarius sensibilities that lends both albums the magic glow of 1960's social awareness and utopian hope.
The band's debut, 1967's "Now is the Time For... Hearts and Flowers," combines light-psychedelic touches with Nik Venet's crystal-clear production across a combination of originals and songs selected from the pens of Donovan ("Try for the Sun"), Tim Hardin ("Reason to Believe," popularly recorded by Rod Stewart), Hoyt Axton ("10,000 Sunsets"), Goffin & King ("Road to Nowhere" - the B-side of their first single), and a fine cover of the Merle Haggard hit "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive." The entire album balances folk and country influences similarly to Brewer & Shipley's best work. Sadly, despite prominent opening slots on tours by The Doors and Simon & Garfunkel, the album went nowhere commercially.
Before recording their second album, 1968's "Of Horses, Kids and Forgotten Women," guitarist/vocalist Rick Cunha departed and was replaced by future Eagle, Bernie Leadon. This sophomore LP includes a more generous helping of originals (including a reprise of the title track from the debut!), along covers of Arlo Guthrie's "Highway in the Wind" and James Lee Kincaid's "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune." The band's original "Two Little Boys" would become a hit for Rolf Harris a couple of years later. Nik Venet added more orchestration to the second release, resulting in heavier psychedelic influence on cuts like "Ode to a Tin Angel." Though more in line with popular LPs of '68, the band still found little commercial success, and were drifting apart by the time the album hit the stands. One could argue that they left the stage set and the amplifiers warmed up for The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and Gram Parson's post-Byrds recordings.
Edsel's 1995 and Rev-Ola's 2002 CD issues collect all twenty-two tracks from the original pair of albums. Collectors' Choice 2003 CD issue adds a second disc with thirteen previously unreleased tracks that are well worth having. [?2005 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
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Here is another crucial folk/country-rock release to go with our Dillards, Beau Brummels and Fred Neil releases. Hearts and Flowers were a self-described "Georgia country folk meets Hawaiian ukelele folk-rock group" (actually, they used a lot of autoharp) whose two releases for Capitol are highly prized by `60s rock aficionados, here compiled together and out on CD for the first time. But that's only HALF the story—we've also managed to dig up 13 unreleased tracks from the Capitol vaults, including very groovy (sitar!) versions of the Fred Neil tunes "Everybody's Talking" and "Other Side of This Life" as well as some fine originals. The glorious sum: 35 tracks of late-`60s SoCal folk rock (and you know that can't be bad!) on two CDs, annotated by folk-rock authority Richie Unterberger. Collector's note: future Eagle Bernie Leadon joins the band for their second album. A Collectors' Choice Music exclusive! Includes from "Now Is the Time"—"Now Is the Time," "Save ! Some Time," "Try for the Sun," "Rain, Rain," "The View from Ward Three," "Rock and Roll Gypsies," "Reason to Believe," "Please," "1-2-3 Rhyme in Carnivour Time," "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive," "Road to Nowhere," and "10,000 Sunsets." From "Of Horses"—"Now Is the Time for Hearts and Flowers," "Highway in the Wind," "Second Hand Sundown Queen," "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune," "Ode to a Tin Angel," "When I Was a Cowboy," "Legend of Ol' Tenbrookes," "Colour Your Daytime," "Two Little Boys," and "Extra Extra/Rock and Roll Gypsies/Extra Extra."Hearts & Flowers were a self-described 'Georgia country folk meets Hawaiian ukulele folk-rock group' whose two releases for Capitol are highly prized by '60s rock aficionados, here compiled together & out on CD for the first time. Also includes a bonus disc of 13 unreleased tracks from the Capitol vaults, including very groovy (sitar!) versions of the Fred Neil tunes 'Everybody's Talkin' & 'Other Side of This Life' as well as some fine originals. The glorious sum is 35 tracks of late-'60s So Cal folk rock on two CDs, annotated by folk-rock authority Richie Unterberger. Future Eagle Bernie Leadon joins the band for their second album. A Collectors' Choice Music exclusive! 2003.
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