Closer to the Ground [Import]

Joy of Cooking | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B0003021BS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,262 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Closer to the Ground

2. Blues for a Friend

3. New Colorado Blues

4. Humpty Dumpty

5. A Thousand Miles

6. Sometimes Like a River (Loving You)

7. Pilot

8. The War You Left

9. First Time, Last Time

10. Laugh, Don't Laugh

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars shirley, December 26, 2004

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shirley (west coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Closer to the Ground (Audio CD)

if you missed Joy of Cookings 2 albums and Zepher from the same time period, you missed some of the very best music of the late 60's early 70's. These are necessary to add to your collection. I was thrilled to see these remastered and released on CD. What a treat

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Cooking, June 16, 2006

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Georgert (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Closer to the Ground (Audio CD)

When my vinyl copy of CttG finally wore out, I was really bummed to discover that Capitol Records only saw fit to release a random collection off of all three of Joy of Cooking's albums with American Originals. Finally, the producers at Acadia have preserved a really great slice of music from the early '70s. Listening to the album again after so many years, it was really a rush to hear songs left off the AO CD, such as Blues for a Friend, A Thousand Miles and Sometimes Like a River. This album of the three JOC put together I liked the best, but all of their music is classic (folk) rock. Their rereleased CDs are all going on the same shelf as my Ten Years After, John Mayall, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Hendrix and Albert King CDs among the other greats of the era. I'd highly recommend turning on the lava lamp, dabbing a splash of patchouli and giving in to the Joy.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This IS San Francisco 60's rock, September 30, 2005

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W. Sappington "Uber Geek" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Closer to the Ground (Audio CD)

Toni Brown, Terry Garthwaite....

Before Heart was a dream in those girls eyes, these two women were rocking it hard, but with feeling. I heard this on vinyl when I was the tender young age of 13 ( circa 1971 ) and besides thinking Toni Brown was totally hot, the music really hit me, with lines like "No use looking to the other side, when your living right down here."

Closer to the Ground ( title track ) Hard growly vocals, great driving bass line, edgy lyrics.

New Colorado Blues, plaintive yet hopeful with a great melody.

Closer to the ground, if fact all of "Joy of Cooking" should be in your music collection if you want to have a clue about the SF music scene in the late 60's.

Pick this plumb while you can.