Time to Gather Seeds

Limeliters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 28, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000OYC1N6
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,293 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Importance Of the Rose

2. Love Story

3. Only 18

4. L.A. In the Summer

5. Cold December (In Your Heart)

6. Goodtime Women

7. Time To Gather Seeds

8. Do You Remember

9. Were You In Berlin?

10. The General

11. A Hundred Men

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Period Piece, November 19, 2007

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I guess one could say that all the Limeliters, Kingston Trio, et al, albums are period pieces of the late-50s, early 60's folk era (or Great Folk Scare, as it has been called). But the other albums have aged a lot better than this one. The other Limeliter albums (many of which have been reissued -- e.g., "Slightly Fabulous") have their clean, lusty sound. This album shouts 1967. Their singing is somewhat muted, and Alex Hassilev went a bit overboard over-producing it with too much background instrumentation and voices. In short, the production is too pop, and not very folk.

Still, it contains some interesting songs, such as "One Hundred Men", which is eerily relevant today. I remember getting the vinyl in the late 60's, so I knew what I was getting with the CD. Despite my reservations stated in the first paragraph, I do enjoy the album (just less than their others).

In their reunions in the 1970s, the Limeliters returned to their strong sound of the early 1960s. It would be interesting to imagine what the songs of this album would sound like if done in their traditional style, instead of the top-40 style. We'll never know.