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]
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] The song is also featured in the Jimi Hendrix "Band Of Gypsies" album, recorded live on January 1, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City.
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]
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