The name of arranger/producer {|Jack Nitzsche|} is prominent in the title of this reissue, possibly because {|Big Beat|}'s parent label, {|Ace|}, had done a couple of various-artists compilations of {|Nitzsche|} productions shortly before this {|Bob ... Read more

The name of arranger/producer {|Jack Nitzsche|} is prominent in the title of this reissue, possibly because {|Big Beat|}'s parent label, {|Ace|}, had done a couple of various-artists compilations of {|Nitzsche|} productions shortly before this {|Bob Lind|} anthology was released. Actually, however, it comes close to serving not only as a best-of, but also as a document of almost everything {|Lind|} recorded for his mid-'60s label, {|World Pacific|}. All 22 of the tracks from his two {|World Pacific|} LPs ({|Don't Be Concerned|} and {|Photographs of Feeling|}, both from 1966) are here, as well as an unedited version of {|I Can't Walk Roads of Anger|} (which first came out on the 1993 collection {|The Best of Bob Lind: You Might Have Heard My Footsteps|}) and two previously unissued acoustic demos, {|Whose Is the Funeral|} and {|Bring It All Down.|} Though nothing else he did was as successful or memorable as the big hit track on the disc, {|Elusive Butterfly,|} it does include quite a few other recordings in a similarly pioneering orchestrated {|folk-rock|} style, some of which were covered by other artists ({|Mr. Zero|} by {|Yardbirds|} singer {|Keith Relf|}, {|Counting|} by {|Marianne Faithfull|}, {|Cheryl's Goin' Home|} by {|the Blues Project|}, and {|Drifter's Sunrise|} by {|the Gants|}). If you're trying to choose between {|Elusive Butterfly: The Complete Jack Nitzsche Sessions|} and {|The Best of Bob Lind: You Might Have Heard My Footsteps|}, it's a pretty close call, as 22 of the same songs appear on each CD. In its favor, {|You Might Have Heard My Footsteps|} has three songs not on {|Elusive Butterfly|}, including the 1967 single {|It's Just My Love|} and two 1967 outtakes, {|I Fall to You|} and {|English Afternoon|} -- the latter of which is a {|baroque|}-{|folk-rocker|} that's, unlike many such things added to CD reissues, one of the best things {|Lind|} ever cut. The two acoustic demos exclusive to {|Elusive Butterfly|} aren't so essential, though it's interesting that one of them, {|Bring It All Down,|} was written for (but not recorded by) {|Cher|}. The annotation on both CDs is excellent, with plenty of quotes from {|Lind|}. ~ Richie Unterberger Less