Time for...The Pozo-Sego Singers - The Complete 1966 Recordings

When singer Susan Taylor joined Don Williams and Lofton Kline in Strangers Two in 1964, the group redid the math and changed its name to the Pozo-Seco Singers, and soon had a recording contract with Columbia Records. Specializing in non-topical folk, pop, and country material (which set them apart from similar but more politicized acts of the day like Ian & Sylvia and Peter, Paul and Mary), the Singers recorded two albums, 1966's Time and 1967's I Can Make It with You, before Kline left, and the third and final Pozo-Seco album, Shades of Time, also released in 1967, featured Williams and Taylor as a duo. Williams went solo in 1971, becoming a big country star in the 1970s and 1980s, while Taylor retreated from the limelight. This Rev-Ola set pairs the first two albums and tosses in a pair of non-album singles as bonus tracks, and essentially duplicates 1996's pairing of these same two albums by Collectors' Choice with different cover art. It's a pleasant set, smooth and easy, and it won't ruffle anyone's feathers, and it probably won't alter anyone's opinion of the Pozo-Seco Singers either. Highlights include the group's one real hit, a version of Chip Taylor's "I Can Make It with You," the odd Williams' original called "Diet," and a wonderful re-imagining of the Beatles' "If I Fell" that hints at what the Pozo-Seco Singers might have become had they stayed together as a trio.