(2024) Tim Hollier - Time Has A Way Of Losing You (The Tim Hollier Anthology)        


Review:
Complete anthology of 1968-1971 recordings by highly regarded British singer/songwriter Tim Hollier. Comprises all three albums from the period, non-LP single cuts, BBC recordings and previously unreleased tracks salvaged from a one-known-copy Apple acetate. Recorded at the height of the late 60s/early 70s singer/songwriter boom, Tim Hollier’s three albums – ‘Message To A Harlequin’, ‘Tim Hollier’ and ‘Skysail’ – went largely under the radar at the time but are now extremely collectable. Guest on the opening night of a Beckenham folk club run by his friend David Bowie, Hollier recorded his first and third albums with the assistance of Donovan arranger John Cameron, while his self-titled second set – considered by many pundits to be his strongest – featured backing from a small, sympathetic rock group. Hollier was a regular on London’s folk club circuit for several years alongside the likes of Paul Simon, Al Stewart and Nick Drake, but retired from live work after a disastrous, drug- impeded performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January 1972. He continued to record sporadically throughout the remainder of the decade before moving (with great success) into the world of music publishing – by which point his trio of late Sixties/early Seventies albums had attracted belated acclaim on the collector network. A 3CD set, ‘Time Has A Way Of Losing You: The Tim Hollier Anthology’ naturally includes all three of those albums in full and adds a non-album single, a handful of BBC radio performances and five previously unissued tracks, taped at a March 1969 Wigmore Hall show that was cut to an Apple label acetate. With some fabulous period-piece photos (including shots of Bowie performing mime at Wigmore Hall as Hollier played), ‘Time Has A Way Of Losing You’ is an essential purchase for aficionados of vintage singer/songwriter fare. — sisterray


   


Track List:
CD1 - Message To A Harlequin (1968)
01. Message To A Harlequin
02. Bird Of Paradise
03. Hanne
04. Jimmy
05. Do You Remember When
06. Streets Of Gold
07. And Where Were You That Morning Mr. Carroll
08. Full Fathoms Five
09. And I
10. In The Light Of Sadness
11. In Silence
Bonus Tracks
12. Bird Of Paradise (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel's Night Ride, November 1968)
13. Song To A Room (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel's Night Ride, November 1968)
14. And I (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel's Night Ride, November 1968)
15. I Search For Small Distractions (Live, BBC Radio 1, John Peel's Night Ride, November 1968)

CD2 - Tim Hollier (1970)
01. Seagull's Song
02. Llanstephan Hill
03. And It's Happening To Her
04. Man Of Gentle Sunlight
05. Evolution
06. Maybe You Will Stay
07. Would I Sing
08. Love Song
09. It's Raining And It's Cold
10. In This Room
11. Evening Song
Bonus Tracks
12. Seagull's Song (Live, Wigmore Hall, 22 March 1969)
13. In This Room (Live, Wigmore Hall, 22 March 1969)
14. House Of The Rising Sun (Live, Wigmore Hall, 22 March 1969)
15. Love Song (Live, Wigmore Hall, 22 March 1969)
16. Evolution (Live, Wigmore Hall, 22 March 1969)
17. And It's Happening To Her (Live, BBC Radio 1, Country Meets Folk, August 1970)

CD3 - Skysail (1971)
01. Skysail
02. Beauty Of The Gardens
03. Time Has A Way Of Losing You
04. And I Wait For That
05. Your Quiet Life
06. Tenderly Stooping Low
07. Flowers In The Morning
08. Sunshine Moonshine
09. Yesterday's Dreams
10. Tomorrow Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
11. Through The Darkness
12. While London's Days Increase
Bonus Tracks
13. The Circle Is Small
14. In A Corner Of My Life/ Time Stood Still


Media Report:
Genre: alternative folk
Origin: UK  
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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