You cant trace the evolution of country-rock without listening to this 1970 album by Ian & Sylvia and thier crack band of Buddy Cage, Amos Garrett and N.D. Smart II; like our previous reissues of records by the Dillards ('Wheatstraw Suite' and Beau Brummels ('Bradleys Barn'), 'Great Speckled Bird' brought a whole new longhair sensiblity to Nashville, and broke through the barriers that had separated country from rock for over a decade. As Sylvia Fricker herself says in our liner notes, Not blowing our own horn or anything, but that album was so far ahead of its time that it really took people a long time to catch up with us and figure out what we were doing. Well, were glad we caught up, and you will be, too, when you hear this lost classic; includes 'Love What Youre Doing Child; Calgary; Truckers Cafe; Long Long Time to Get Old; Flies in the Bottle; Bloodshot Beholder; Crazy Arms; This Dream; Smiling Wine; Rio Grande; Disappearing Woman; We Sail', and a bonus live rendition of 'Truckers Cafe'.

1. Love What You're Doing Child
   
2. Calgary
   
3. Trucker's Cafe
   
4. Long Long Time to Get Old
   
5. Flies in the Bottle
   
6. Bloodshot Beholder
   
7. Crazy Arms
   
8. This Dream
   
9. Smiling Wien
   
10. Rio Grande
    
11. Disappearing Woman
    
12. We Sail
    
13. New Truckers Cafe [Live][*]