Only The Beginning: Robert Lamm's "Time Chill: A Retrospective" Coming From Omnivore

Only The Beginning: Robert Lamm’s “Time Chill: A Retrospective” Coming From Omnivore

March 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

If you know “Saturday in the Park,” “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is,” “Beginnings,” and “Get Away” – and who doesn’t? – you know the work of Robert Lamm. Yet what you might not know is that the Brooklyn-born founding member of Chicago and recent inductee of both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters’ Hall of Fames has also had a flourishing solo career in which he’s been able to explore new sonic avenues free from the shadow of his famous, and still busy, band. On June 2, Omnivore Recordings will collect some of the best of this world-class songwriter and musician’s solo work on Time Chill: A Retrospective.

This first-ever solo collection for Robert Lamm the solo artist brings together fifteen tracks (five of which are previously unreleased) drawn from his diverse recordings beginning in 1999. (Prior to that, Lamm released two fine solo LPs – 1974’s Skinny Boy and 1993’s Life is Good in My Neighborhood.) One track has been culled from his beautiful collaboration with America’s Gerry Beckley and the late Carl Wilson as Beckley-Lamm-Wilson; among the other highlights, you’ll find a previously unheard cover of Bobby Hebb’s timeless “Sunny” and a solo re-interpretation and remix of Chicago’s classic “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is.”

Lamm has written new track-by-track liner notes for this compendium, which promises to be a fresh and exciting release from one of the rock era’s most enduring and socially-conscious songwriters. Look for Time Chill on June 2 from Omnivore in both compact disc and digital formats at the links below!

Robert Lamm, Time Chill: A Retrospective (Omnivore, 2017) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

4 Bells
Angels Fly (JVE Remix)
Sing to Me Lady
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is (JVE Remix)
Sleeping in the Middle of the Bed
Send Rain
Everyday, It’s Always Something
Out of the Blue
Sunny
Samba in Your Life (JVE Remix)
You’re My Sunshine Everyday (JVE Remix)
Standing at Your Door – Beckley-Lamm-Wilson
It’s a Groove, This Life (JVE Remix)
You Will Never Know the Story
Will People Ever Change?

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.