Them Changes (Buddy Miles album)

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Them Changes
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Studio album by
Buddy Miles
ReleasedJune 1970
StudioAudio-Finishers Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Funk rock, R&B, soul
Length33:28
Label Mercury
Producer Buddy Miles, Steve Cropper, Robin McBride
Buddy Miles chronology
Electric Church
(1969)		Them Changes
(1970)		We Got to Live Together
(1970)

Them Changes is an album by American artist Buddy Miles, released in June 1970. It reached number 8 on the 1970 Jazz Albums chart, number 35 on the Billboard 200 and number 14 on the 1971 R&B albums charts. [1]

Contents

The title song, "Them Changes," is now widely acknowledged to be an adaptation of the 1969 song "Sing Lady Sing" by The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble. [2] "Buddy Miles took pretty much all the guitar lines that Michael (Kamen) and I wrote and used them in 'Them Changes,'" said NYRRE guitarist Cliff Nivison. "It is the same song with a different vocal." [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide C [4]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Steve Kurutz called the album "quite simply, one of the great lost treasures of soul inspired rock music... definitely worth the extra effort to try to locate." [1] Conversely, Robert Christgau wrote "His singing is too thin to carry two consecutive cuts, his drumming has to be exploited by subtler musicians, and the title cut is the only decent song he ever wrote." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Them Changes" (Buddy Miles) – 3:22
  2. "I Still Love You, Anyway" (Charlie Karp) – 4:14
  3. "Heart's Delight" (Miles) – 4:08
  4. "Dreams" (Gregg Allman) – 4:53
  5. "Down by the River" (Neil Young) – 6:22
  6. "Memphis Train" (Rufus Thomas) – 2:57
  7. "Paul B. Allen, Omaha, Nebraska" (Miles) – 5:33
  8. "Your Feeling Is Mine" (Otis Redding) – 2:13

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kurutz, Steve. "Them Changes > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved October 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Allen, Jim (August 1, 2018). "Peter Holsapple Suits Up for Game Day, His First Solo Record in Twenty Years". IndyWeek. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  3. ↑ Unterberger, Richie. "LINER NOTES FOR THE NEW YORK ROCK & ROLL ENSEMBLE'S FAITHFUL FRIENDS". RichieUnterberger.com. Retrieved November 24, 2024.
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 8, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
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