Indian Summer [Soundtrack]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Instrumental and vocal tracks salvaged from master tapes found by Ronson's widow. These tracks were scored for a movie that never saw the light of day. The soundtrack album and storyline have been pieced together from recently discovered paperwork and the

Tracks:

Life Less Ordinary
What About Everything?
Changeless
This Is My Song!
Grey Sky Eyes
Raise The Roof
Paloma
One Prarie Outpost
Let Your Troubles Roll By
When I'm Alone
The Sea

Customer Reviews:

At Times Fun, Other Times Beautiful.......2006-09-21

I got to know the band Carbon Leaf through an online community whom shared the song Life Less Ordinary, a catchy and light- hearted song that is radio- friendly indeed. With the love of that song, I checked out the entire album Indian Summer and no later bought it.

What I really enjoy about this album is how well- written it is. Some of the songs are just beautifully sung as well. The strong lyrics and the mixture of different sounds on this album keep the listener eager and satisfied throughout the album. There is not one song on here that is poor. Although, like most albums, there are a few songs that need to grow on you, ad even when do might pale in comparison to others. For me there are a few songs I favor above the others- a few just really stand out for me.

Life Less Ordinary- A
What About Everything- A+
Changeless- B
This Is My Song!- A
Grey Sky Eyes- A
Raise the Roof- A+- This is my favorite song by them hands down.
Paloma- A+
One Prairie Outpost- C+
Let Your Troubles Roll By- A
When I'm Alone- B+
The Sea- B-

Overall this album has plenty of gems on this album to keep you playing their album constantly. Indian Summer has a pleasant, touching and lovely feel to it that is hard to resist.

4/5

Excellent.......2006-02-03

I adore this album. There's nothing about it that I don't like. I keep listening to Indian Summer over and over, and I never get tired of it. In particular, the best tracks are "Life Less Ordinary," "What About Everything?", "This is my song!", "Raise the Roof," "Let your troubles roll by," and "When I'm alone." You won't be disappointed by Indian Summer.

This CD will get you hooked!.......2006-01-05

Carbon Leaf has been around for over ten years, but this, their debut major-label album, has brought them national notoriety, well after their 2002 Coca-Cola New Music Award performance on the AMA's with "The Boxer." Anyway, these guys are great.
Barry Privett, the lead singer and songwriter, rocks the mic and the tinwhistle, with catchy and unforgettable lyrics.
Terry Clark, rhythm guitarist, backs up the band with sizzling chords. You really want to hear this man play on "One Prairie Outpost."
Carter Gravatt, "The String Guy," as I like to call him, not only burns up the acoustic and electric guitars, but breathes life into his mandolin. Hear his fingers fly on tracks like "This is My Song!" and "Life Less Ordinary," just for starters.
Jordan Medas, bassist, is the soul of the music on his electric and uprights. "Paloma" really shows his licks well.
Scott Milstead is the man behind the drums...literally. A wonderful percussionist, Scott stays hidden during the live shows, but rocks the audience and adds the backbone of all of Carbon Leaf's music.
This CD introduced me to Carbon Leaf, but since I have listened to it, I've seen these guys in concert six times, met them repeatedly (they are amazing in person and love their fans!), and bought all of their other CDs.

The music can be summarized as moving, emotional, folk rock with the slightest hint of the Celtic and bluegrass flavor that could be found in their earlier music.

Rock on, CL! :)

Carbon Leaf all polished up and ready for the world.......2005-12-22

This gem of an album is the Richmond based band's strongest so far. It brings together their diverse and prolific work background and channels it all into a professional wrapper but still retains the band's creativity and pathos and produces what might happen if Coldplay met Cat Stevens and they played at a Celtic festival.

Carbon Leaf has always been an energetic and enthusiastic live band, rocking intimate live performances a lot like private jam sessions, the band members are all excellent musicians and uninhibited in their creativity, and their previous albums reflected this raw and untapped ethic. Their style has always been a refreshing mix of folksy, moody, and hyper with themes that tend to be introspective and interpersonal without being depressing, with a fixed eye on the horizon (with a sort of a pioneer spirit; decidedly Virginian). Their sound is ecletic and unabashed in experimenting and trying out different styles from folk and celtic, to pure rock, and indie ballads. So their independent albums are flush with gems of all sorts, one giant brainstorming session.

"Indian Summer" takes all this, cleans it up, and picks out what really works.

The songs on this album are diverse and take a bit of everything the band has developed up to this point, the general mood and theme of the album is just what the title suggests: zest for life with a heavy understanding of the world, hope and joy that has seen melancholy. It comes together in Barry Privett's mellow voice, and the band's tight musicality.

The album is wonderful played straight through, but the highlights are "Life Less Ordinary", uptempo and rhythmic, "This Is My Song" the same but even more rollicking, "The Sea" a long and hypnotizing ballad, "One Prarie Outpost" sweet and reminiscent of James Taylor.

But my favorites without a doubt are "Grey Sky Eyes" a beautiful little ballad that starts off with a dancing guitar, light and cloudlike and romantic but a little bittersweet. "What About Everything?" an insanely catchy, hook-infested quirky monologue on life with fantastic lyrics ("what about being done with no resume/what about aliens? what about you and me? what about gold beneath the sea? what about when buildings fall, what about that midnight phone call, the one that wakes you from your peace?"). It also has my all time favorite Carbon Leaf song "When I'm Alone", it's gorgeous. A loud rhythmically throbbing lament to a lost love and friendship, an almost Irish ode with a rock soul, alternately swelling and retreating to quiet, but always devoutly in line to the beat.

Check these guys out, there's a lot to love about them.

The Best Group I had never heard of.......2005-12-19

Seeing this band at a Celtic fest in Bethlehem PA was a real treat. Since then I have almost glued this CD to my deck. The fact that they are not mainstream is testimony to everything that is wrong in corporate music biz. This is the best indie band in years, and just one of a handful of great CDs buy this band.

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Classic Wynton
amazing
Heard this with NEW appreication.........
Wynton's the best
Classic Wynton--brilliant, clear trumpet renditions

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Wynton Marsalis may not have an easily recognizable or even particularly handsome tone, but this erstwhile jazz trumpeter is an amazing virtuoso with a fine sense of classical style. If you've never owned/heard any of his classical CDs, and you love (mostly baroque) trumpet music, this compilation--a sort of "greatest hits"--is for you. From such cruddy, sensationalistic works as Carnival of Venice to the glories of Haydn's E-Flat Concerto, this is grand entertainment. Marsalis is joined by Kathleen Battle in an exciting version of Handel's "Let the bright seraphim," and the treat there is doubled. A fine piece by Hovhaness for trumpet and organ, never before released, is another surprise. Come listen to the endless, seemingly casual roulades that come out of this guy's trumpet--they'll wake you right up. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

Classic Wynton.......2007-07-11

Classic! What else is there to say? As an introduction to the other, many classic recordings of this superbly talented trumpeter, it is as good a guide as possible.

amazing.......2006-10-31

Classic Wynton is the most glorious display of musicianship I have ever heard. No other trumpet player even comes close to Wynton. Don't listen to anything the editorial review says though, it must have been written by a complete ignoramus. Wynton Marsalis not having a clear or recognizable tone? Please...That's like saying Kobe Bryant isn't a good shooter. I can't believe that garbage is on a credible site such as Amazon.

Heard this with NEW appreication................2006-09-07

This is such a wonderful mix. I especially love the Haydn concerto finale in E flat. I was listening to this cd when my grandson (almost 3) heard the glorious music of the trumpet for the first time. He loved seeing the photos of Mr. Marsalis (which I embellished, albeit true, saying how difficult it is to play the trumpet - hence the need for a handerchief to wipe his brow in one of the photos). This awakened his awareness of trumpet music where he now loves to listen to one of his Baby Einstein cd's in the car. Specifically, he told his mother "louder" when the trumpet piece was played - repetetively.

Wynton's the best.......2006-03-17

I'm not a professional musician and don't have a trained ear but Wynton Marsalis has provided me with a very delightful hour of extremely good music.

Classic Wynton--brilliant, clear trumpet renditions.......2006-02-25

For anyone who loves trumpet music as I do, this album is a must. Wynton Marsalis has mastered twenty all-time favorite pieces with such brilliance, that no other trumpeteer comes near by comparison. Opening with J. Clarke's, The King's March, Wynton proceeds to favor listeners with such baroque favorites as Purcell's Entrada from "The Indian Queen," J. Clark's The Prince of Denmark's March and J. Stanley's Trumpet Voluntary. Fantastic selections from Bach, Mozart, and Haydn follow, with the album also including such delightful listening as The Last Rose of Summer, Carnival of Venisee, and Flight of the Bumblebee. You won't be disappointed with this purchase!

Jerry Hadley - Golden Days - Tenor hits from the Golden Age of Operetta

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Live Indian Summer
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Poco Indian Summer
Pleasant, Melodic effort though somewhat ordinary
Compare and contrast
Very Solid Close to the Tim Schmit Era
One of their best!

Indian Summer
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ASIN: B00020QX04
Release Date: 2004-05-24

Tracks:

Indian Summer
Twenty Years
Me and You
Downfall
Win or Lose
Living in the Band
Stay (Night Until Noon)
Find Out in Time
Dance: When the Dance Is Over/Go on and Dance/Never Gonna ...
Go on and Dance
Never Gonna Stop/When the Dance Is over (Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

Poco Indian Summer.......2007-01-23

This is a four or five star album, but I have only given one as Lemon Records cds are often mastered from vinyl. This is no exception and the Japanese edition is far better with no vinyl noise. Unfortunately, it is more expensive, but if you like this album, it is certainly worth it.

Pleasant, Melodic effort though somewhat ordinary.......2006-10-17

I think its ludicrous to call this the sound of a desperate band as one reviewer has. Its overall a very pleasant outing, well sung, well played and typical melodic songwriting from the various band members. I listened to it a lot when it first came out. It hasn't quite stood the test of time and does show some signs of a band on their last leg (at least in this formation as T.B. Schmit was to leave soon thereafter for the greener pastures of the Eagles).

Strong melodies and great singing do have their place in rock music and there are some nice ones here. Lyrics have never been a Poco strong suit and are typcially slight here. T.B. Schmit's 3 songs are all very good. I always thought it was unfortunate when he moved to the Eagles where he would be limited to 1 song per record rather than the 3 he would normally get with Poco. If you listen to the body of work he did with Poco as compared to the Eagles you will understand. That said none of his songs here are quite as good as his best, but all are worthwhile.

The Paul Cotton songs are pretty good. The title song is one of his best and the rockers such as "Living in the Band" and "20 years on" pretty much delivery the goods. The 10 minute extended 3 part Rusty Young song, "The Dance" is o.k. Unfortunately, when you do the Eagles comparision here to lets say, "Hotel California" you do get a sense of how the Eagles grew as a band while Poco seems to be treading water at this point. None of this should be taken to diminish the impact this band had whether that be on country rock in general or specifically the Eagles.

At this point, Richie Furay was long gone and nobody can dispute the fact that he was the true architect of this sound and Poco itself. Still, this record brings a smile to me even to this day. For die hard Poco fans its still recommended. For others, there are better places to go rather than this effort. In conclusion I would say for the end of the T.B. Schmit Poco era, you would really be better off looking for the live cd, The Last Roundup. It contains a number of songs from Indian Summer in arguably better versions plus outstanding versions of other Poco songs including Rose of Cimarron and a guest appearance by none other than Richie Furay.

Compare and contrast.......2006-07-02

I was always a Poco fan from the very beginning, but when I saw them open for Marshall Tucker Band in Shreveport La. I was completely blown away. I didn't even stay for Marshall Tucker.
It was general admission and I stood at Rusty Young's feet the entire show.
I saw the Eagles twice and other country rock bands but no one ever came close to the show I saw that night. Every member was on and the crowd was too. The performance was one of the best I have ever seen from any band, and I have seen most.
I have the entire Poco collection on LP and am collecting on CD.
Listen to the album Deliverin and it will sell you on the band.

Very Solid Close to the Tim Schmit Era.......2005-12-14

Indian Summer is a very solid, though not particularly remarkable release. Tim Schmit shines on the album, particularly on the fantastic Find Out in Time which may be one of the best songs Schmit ever performed. Unfortunately for Poco fans, the album would turn out to be Schmit's swan song with the band as he jumped ship to join the Eagles after Indian Summer was released.

Paul Cotton stands out front once again on Indian Summer, delivering big time on the laid back title track, and the rockers Twenty Years, Win or Lose and Living in the Band. Rusty Young is not as much of a presence on this album as on the preceding albums, but still delivers some fine steel guitar work as well as giving us a taste of things to come in the future through his song Downfall, his first out-front full lead vocal.

Indian Summer doesn't stand up among the best works in the Poco library, but it is still a very listenable album with some very good moments on it.

One of their best!.......2005-09-01

I am a long-time Poco fan, and gradually acquiring their works on CD. This is one of their best, with great tracks. Paul Cotton shines on this one too, and the title track is good.

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Songs of Victor Herbert

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Some old favourites, and some unfamiliar, enjoyable voices and songs

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Release Date: 2000-08-22

Tracks:

Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life! - Richard Crooks
Gypsy Love Song - CHARLES KULLMAN
Romany Life - Jeanette MacDonald
March Of The Toys - Victor Young & His Concert Orchestra
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(The Day Is Done...) Moonbeams - Richard Crooks
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Some old favourites, and some unfamiliar, enjoyable voices and songs.......2007-03-11

This compilation has the usual songs that immediately bring the name of composer Victor Herbert to mind - Ah, sweet mystery of life, I'm falling in love with someone and Tramp, tramp, tramp - with such well known voices as those of Macdonald, Eddy and the famous tenors, Richard Crooks, Richard Tauber and Charles Kullmann.

Perhaps of greater interest to many listeners will be the relatively seldom heard artists, such as John McHugh, Florence Easton and Florence George. All three have very pleasant voices and aural personalities.

It is a somewhat mixed delight to hear Amelita Galli-Curci, John McCormack, Alma Gluck and Richard Werrenrath in recordings from the acoustic era. My personal favourite from that group is Galli-Cutci's charming version of A kiss in the dark.

Altogether, a well chosen mixture of the familiar and the out of the way, carefully and well re-recorded.

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Indian Summer
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Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Inauthentic Herbert/authentic Percy Faith
disappointment
"music giants come together ~ Herbert & Faith"
Herbert in good hands with Faith renditions
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The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert

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ASIN: B0000996GF
Release Date: 2003-09-16

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Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
Spanish Serenade
Dream Girl
Because You're You!
Toyland
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Album Description

Percy Faith was the master of distilling the best of melodies and in this collection from 1958, Percy rescues us from the images that Victor Herbert melodies tend to evoke - the operetta, and the "erstwhile lady singing (belting out?) Herbert tunes at the piano." With this in mind, Percy's early stereo spectacular brings us the best of the Victor Herbert tunes - with the grand voice of the orchestra to bring out the beauty of each song - twenty-three Victor Herbert songs in this collection! (Bill Halvorsen)

Album Description

Full Title - The Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert/And His Orchestra. Pianist Percy Faith, a pioneer of the Easy Listening genre, had a successful and lengthy career as the in-house conductor and arranger for Columbia Records. Faith was renowned for his musical interpretations of Broadway and motion picture music. These 2 albums on 1 CD were originally released in 1958. 23 tracks. 2003 Collectables reissue.

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Inauthentic Herbert/authentic Percy Faith.......2006-09-03

If you love the Percy Faith orchestral style, you will certainly
enjoy this typical example. The disc is full and the selections are numerous and varied, including characteristic pieces, operetta
excerpts, and even a couple of excerpts from one of Herbert's
grand operas.
BUT - if you're primarily interested in the music of Victor Herbert, then the advice has to be to avoid this seemingly tempting item. The combination of anachronistic arrangements, altered harmonies, and orchestrations foreign to anything Herbert would have imagined or countenanced ends by falsifying the charm and character of Herbert's music. In essence it's more like "1950's Fantasies Loosely Based on Certain Herbert Themes."

disappointment.......2006-08-14

This is a very poor rendering of the music of Victor Herbert. I am very disappointed in it and would not have ordered it if I realized that there were no vocals.

"music giants come together ~ Herbert & Faith".......2004-02-09

Now we have something that only Percy Faith could tackle "The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert", composer Victor Herbert has all the elements that Mr. Faith was looking for, and what a workout the award winning Percy Faith Orchestra has in store for them, look at the result...pure satisfaction and then some ~ "TOYLAND" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, Percy's arrangement comes from the heart and weaves a magic spell over the listener ~ "MARCH OF THE TOYS", once again the signature arrangement comes to the surface of each cue that Mr. Faith records, very stimulating performance ~ listen to this cue and visualize the toys coming to life ~ "A KISS IN THE DARK" and "KISS ME AGAIN", once again the magic prevails with soft and sweeping strings, The Percy Faith Touch comes to the forefront ~ and Percy was always there to record the music whenever the time presented itself, and it is here and now.

Two great giants in the music world Victor Herbert (1859-1924) and Percy Faith (1908-1976), brought together by Columbia Records and originally released in 1958 (C2S-801), received wonderful reviews from the music critics. This is an historic event for Faith fans, a double LP that has all the ingredients is now released on one single compact disc ~ with all the sonic clarity you could ask for.

Great job to all who were involved in bringing this to listeners of fine music ~ very impressive with all original liner notes and recording cues intact. This has to be in the top five of Faith's re-issues, keep them coming, cause there is an audience out there crying and craving more of the same...gotta love it!

Total Time: 73:46 on 23 Tracks ~ Collectables 7565 ~ (9/16/2003)

Herbert in good hands with Faith renditions.......2003-10-08

Percy Faith, the easy listening music arranger and conductor, pays homage to composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924) and in doing so offers us a remarkable recording of Herbert's oft-forgotten music. Faith interprets Herbert's music with his signature lush strings and sound orchestral arrangements that provide a light buoyancy to the compositions. Especially good are Indian Summer, Spanish Serenade and Gypsy Love Song. But all tracks are impressive and offer good testimony to Herbert's compositions and Faith's tuneful arranging. This is one of the better Faith re-releases from Collectables to date.

Percy Faith-Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert.......2003-09-18

This is one of Percy Faith's most beautiful albums and it is finally on cd.Most of this album is beautiful and lush but there is a few songs that are brassy,2 Christmas songs and 1 Semi classical song.Here is the song list.

The Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert-1958(Liner Notes Included)
1)Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life-Lush
2)Spanish Life-Brassy
3)Dream Girl-Lush
4)Because Your You're You-Lush
5)Toyland-Lush Christmas This is the most beautiful version of toyland I have ever heard although Johnny Mathis has a pretty good version too.You should play Percy's version during the Christmas season off of this cd.
6)March Of The Toys-Brassy Christmas with Drums interspursed.Percy's version of this song is great and should also get a lot of play during the holiday season.
7)Gypsy Love Song and Romany Life-Semi Classical
8)A Kiss In The Dark-Lush
9)I Want What I Want When I Want It-Brassy
10)When You're Away-Lush
11)Cuban Love Song-Light Strings
12)Indian Summer-Lush
13)Every Day Is Ladies Day With Me-Brassy
14)Kiss Me Again-Lush
15)Habanera-Brassy
16)To The Land Of My Own Romance-Lush
17)Dagger Dance-Brassy
18)Italian Street Song-Brassy
19)Sweethearts-Lush
20)Yesterthoughts-Lush
21)Streets Of New York-Lush
22)I'm Falling In Love With Someone-Light Strings
23)Thine Alone-Lush

All 23 Songs are just with orchestra and no chrous.Also the two Christmas Songs on this album are not available on his other 3 Christmas albums only here.You may also like Percy Faith's Columbia Album of George Gershwin if it's still available,if it's not Collectibles will probebly be reissiuing it eventually.If you like beautiful music this album must be in your collection.Doubtless a lot of these songs probebly got played on beautiful music stations before beautiful music died out on the radio.

Indian Summer
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the sound of a desperate band

A very good album!

The Best Poco album I've heard

Indian Summer
Poco
Manufacturer: Universal/Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005GSO6
Release Date: 1994-11-23

Tracks:

Indian Summer
Twenty Years
Me and You
Downfall
Win or Lose
Living in the Band
Stay (Night Until Noon)
Find Out in Time
Dance: When the Dance Is Over/Go on and Dance/Never Gonna ...
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the sound of a desperate band.......2005-06-11

Much has been made by Poco fans of how the Eagles 'stole Poco's sound' and proceeded to dominate the charts while Poco unjustly floundered commercially, but let's be realistic. The Eagles had released "Hotel California" by the time "Indian Summer" came out, the latter of which utterly pales in comparison to the former. "Hotel California" isn't a perfect album, but it IS pretty damn good anyway, and there's no denying that the Eagles had things to say. On "Indian Summer", Poco sound desperate, churning out routine songs with painfully unimaginative lyrics. At least 1975's "Head Over Heels" makes for thoroughly respectable background music--unfortunately, that's not the case here. Rusty Young goes way overboard with a strained, lame-brained attempt at SOMETHING with the 10-minute, 3-part 'suite' "The Dance"--I guess it's supposed to be uplifting, but it's pretty pathetic and lyrically weak. The first part is "When The Dance Is Over" which is at least respectably tuneful, but it really falls apart on the second part, the air-headed "Go On And Dance" which reuses the main riff from "Makin' Love" (from "Head Over Heels"); and then there's the mercilessly repetitive, sax-laden "Never Gonna Stop" part which is downright grating and obnoxious. "Stay (Night Until Noon)" is credited to Timothy B. Schmit and Noreen Schmit, and it's also very weak with its tossed off melodicism and piss-poor, annoyingly self-righteous 'tough guy' lyrics. The one other track Schmit co-wrote, the acoustic ballad "Find Out In Time", is much better with nice twelve-string guitar work, but it's flawed with some weak turns of phrase and sickly-sweet harmonies. Paul Cotton's got 4 solo compositions here, and they're mostly weak--the vamping funk-rocker "Win Or Lose" is another one of his tunes with an absolutely toothless verse melody; the uptempo riff-rocker "Living In The Band" has overwrought Cotton vocals and pathetic, senseless 'celebratory' lyrics; and "Twenty Years" is a tired shuffle. Cotton's best track is the title track which has a somewhat nice dreamy feel and a chorus that does catch the ear, but it's not particularly well-written, and like usual, the lyrics leave a lot to be desired. Young's "Downfall" has nice crunchy guitar work, but the song is half-baked with annoying repetition of the title, and the lyrics are so unimaginative and dull, it's eyeroll-inducing. Schmit's ballad "Me And You" is pretty good with a catchy chorus, though the opening verse is sadly rote. Ultimately, it's hard to feel sorry for the guys' lack of commercial success with an album as weak as this. There are solid ideas floating around, but the inability to focus them into quality, fully developed songs is incredibly frustrating and disappointing.

A very good album!.......2005-06-06

Indian Summer was originaly released in 1977. The present version is a remastered one from 1994, in japanese import. The sound is very good and probably from the master tapes. A part of the booklet is in japanese, but all the important informations are in english (also the lyrics of all the songs).

The fans of Poco and country rock will find what they waited for in this album. Like the previous 4 albums (Seven, Cantamos, Head Over Heels and Rose Of Cimarron), you will hear the same band members: Rusty Young, George Grantham, Timothy B. Schmit & Paul Cotton. Their songs are just fine. Me and You, Stay and Find Out In Time, from and sung by Schmit, are in the same excellent standards he always offer. Indian Summer and Twenty Years are great Cotton songs. The Dance from Young is a special one, a kind of exploration that will have an influence on the next albums.

Sadly, it will be the last album with Schmit and Grantham. At this point Schmit will quit to join Eagles. In my opinion, it will be the last true country rock album from Poco. Than they will evolve to a more rockier & commercial sound and with it reach better success in the charts.

Buying this album (and especially this 1994 japanese version) is therefore a excellent choice, you will never regret it!

The Best Poco album I've heard.......2004-10-15

This album was one of the best albums from the seventies.

Its Poco at their best in my opinion.

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"INDIAN SUMMER" JAMS!!!
Indian Summer
Wasn't impressed...in fact, I was disappointed
WOW!

Indian Summer
King Kooba
Manufacturer: Om Records
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Om Lounge, Vol. 10

ASIN: B00006JM4T
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Tracks:

Honey Locust
Losing You
A Man Like Andre
Indian Summer
Blue Mosque
Barefoot
If I Could
Salution
Public Service
Want Your Love
You Don't Know
Dreaming Of You

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A seductive new sound in rhythm & soul. Features Vocalists/MCs Nomvula Malinger, UK hip-hop superstar Roots Manuva, Cleo Bartlett, Soulstice's Gina Rene and Nu Found Funk's Melissa Heathcote. Om Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

"INDIAN SUMMER" JAMS!!!.......2006-03-16

Charlie Tate and Matt Harris of King Kooba have done a masterful job of producing some exceptionally beautiful, original, soulful and jazzy selections sure to appeal to all. There's truly something for everyone on "Indian Summer"...The carefree opener "Honey Locust", the cool-urbane "A Man Like Andre" and the sassy "You Don't Know" offer futuristic basslines, haunting vocals and stellar scratching and mixing for the consummate jazz/lounge-lizzard. Neo-soul connoiseurs will find tracks like "Losing You", "Barefoot", and "If I Could" a real delight, while your more discerning music listeners will dig other cuts like "Indian Summer", "Blue Mosque" and "Dreaming of You". This one comes highly recommended!

Indian Summer.......2004-02-07

If this were the first album by King Kooba, the other reviews here would be different. This is a marvellously rich album that explores downtempo music in all its complexity without getting too edgy or dark. I didn't like the first King Kooba album NuFound Funk except for Koobesq and California Suite. If you like Air, Stereolab, or some of the softer downtempo artists like Zero 7, you'll probably like this as well.

Wasn't impressed...in fact, I was disappointed.......2003-06-25

This wasn't the King Kooba I've loved especially since my introduction to him from the Om label. I wasn't very impressed with this particular album at all. For the hip-hop lovers, drum-n-bass fiends of old, this won't be your type of hype. I'd say this album was too "house"/disco-nouveau diva if anything. I miss the old Kooba. I have to say "Man Like Andre", "Blue Mosque" and "Salutation" were the only stand-outs for me; the other songs just got too long and boring...Well, I guess they're alright; just gotta pay attention. Just keep and make it plain ol' instrumentally jazzed-hip-hop funky for me! I hope he (Charlie Tate) will produce an album under his other pseudonym "Colossus". A taste of what that is like can be heard on Om Lounge, Vol. 7.

So, three stars for three songs--

WOW!.......2003-05-19

Absolutely amazing. What else can you say? King Kooba is another all-star on the OM records line up. This cd is filled with some of the best and laid back beats ever. Absolute must have. Especially for OM Records followers.

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