CHAMBERS BROTHERS
Time Has Come Today
Like their West Coast contemporaries Sly and the Family Stone, the Chambers
Brothers shattered racial and musical divides to forge an incendiary fusion
of funk, gospel, blues, and psychedelia which reached its apex with the
perennial 1968 hit song "Time Has Come Today" This is the Chambers Brothers'
coming-of-age record, a well-timed and even better executed exercise in
modern record-making. The brothers had recorded several excellent gospel-folk
sides on a few labels (including CBS) in the mid-1960s. They were darlings
of the folk set, and even sang backup on a few unreleased Bob Dylan sessions
in 1965. By 1967, they were at loose ends. Having demo'd a slightly demented
song called "Time Has Come Today" that year, the group entered the studio
with producer David Rubinson, who was fresh from some critical acclaim after
recording Moby Grape. The resulting album and subsequent title-track hit
were huge successes, especially on FM radio. The rest of the album shows
the brothers not just embracing the psychedelic trends, but also redefining
their R&B leanings. Fabulous! Selections are: All Strung Out over You; People
Get Ready; I Can't Stand It; Romeo and Juliet; In the Midnight Hour; So
Tired; Uptown; Please Don't Leave Me; What the World Needs Now Is Love;
and the 11 minute title track, Time Has Come Today. This is an original
"360 Sound" Stereo pressing on COLUMBIA RECORDS (CS-9522), with the red
label & white logos. The record jacket, labels and playing surfaces all
appear in overall beautiful near MINT condition!
