Time Is Near (Reis) [Import]

Keef Hartley Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Eclectic Discs
• ASIN: B0009F2BT4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Morning Rain

2. From the Window

3. The Time Is Near

4. You Can't Take It with You

5. Premonition

6. Another Time, Another Place

7. Change

Editorial Reviews

2005 sees the release of 'The Time Is Near' a remastered re-issued with bonus tracks. Eclectic Disc. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic from 1970, March 12, 2006

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Nobody - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Is Near (Reis) (Audio CD)

Unless you're my age and were fairly widely educated about music at the time, you missed this, an album that was as good as many more popular LP's and never got the recognition it deserved.

Keef Hartley was (is) a drummer who was mostly known for being with John Mayall's band at various times, but this album is all about Miller Anderson, a talented singer, guitarist and vocalist that drives this music. Keef Hartley was known as a blues artist, but there's nothing here like that at all. Think Blood Sweat and Tears maybe, but better, less smaltzy, more like ensemble jazz with a rock kick. A big sound, biting guitars and horns, fast driving, propelled by a solid backbone. Miller Anderson's voice will grab you right away.

Anyway, check it out and you'll see what I mean. Skip the first two songs and it makes a great set, but in this CD age the running time will seem short. There are a few songs on NW6 and the first album that can be mixed in to your playlist for this band . . . and that's about it.

The liner notes said that they felt for the band, the time was near. It wasn't, as it turned out, but they left a few minutes of solid music for the ages.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, December 21, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Is Near (Audio CD)

These guys were pretty amazing. Keef Hartly band mixed soul and jazz and rock in very inventive ways.

None of this was self-concious or advertized as it may have been with Chicago or post-Al Kooper Blood Sweat and tears. These songs had a rock groove-and a genuinely 60s FM underground bend at that--but the horns played sweet R&B changes over vocals that could rival Otis Redding or Sam and Dave.

This album takes ideas from "pop" and "rock" and "progressive" --back when those labals truely drew lines--and melds them to wonderful musical clay.

Far far far too few people know the Keef Hartly Band, and are truely missing out. I can't speak highly enough of this album or its makers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, March 26, 2010

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Kevman (White Plains, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Time Is Near (Audio CD)

This album opens with two tracks that are a little more radio oriented than anything on Halfbreed, but that are still excellent tracks. The rest of the album is more progressive and I think as good as Halfbreed. Certainly these were two great records. Even though I was young when they came out, I don't know how my music friends and I missed these albums. It's exactly the kind of music we were looking for. I am very glad to find them now, it's always nice to find great music that I missed during rock's golden age.