River Is Wide By Grass Roots

This low-priced disc is far and away the best single-CD compilation ever issued of the Grass Roots' work, 16 chart singles covering every phase of their history, from 1966's "Where Were You When I Needed You" (in its actual hit ...

Recorded between 1966 and 1972. Includes liner notes by Bill De Young. Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Audio Mechanics, Los Angeles, California). This seems like an unnecessary collection, considering that All Time Greatest Hits -- released on the same label, just five ...

The Grass Roots' GREATEST HITS collects all of the favorites from the 1960s and '70s era folk band. With a total of 15 tracks, this Dutch import includes "Let's Live For Today" and "Midnight Confessions." With an ever-shifting lineup, and tightly ...

Track Listing: Midnight Confessions; Sooner or Later; Temptation Eyes; I'd Wait a Million Years; Two Divided by Love; Things I Should of Said; Heaven Knows; Where Were You When I Needed You; River Is Wide, The; Glory Bound;

Recorded between 1966 and 1972. Includes liner notes by Bill De Young. Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Audio Mechanics, Los Angeles, California). This seems like an unnecessary collection, considering that All Time Greatest Hits -- released on the same label, just five ...

Dennis Provisor, Terry Furlong, Joel Larson, Virgil Weber, Reed Kailing and Reggie Knighton are not part of the band's original line-up. It may be expensive, and two CDs of their work may seem like overkill, but this double-disc set is the ...

14 Greatest Hits is a budget-priced collection that features the Grass Roots' biggest hits in versions that are most likely re-recorded. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing: Let's Live For Today; Midnight Confessions; I'd Wait a Million Years; Heaven Knows; Bella Linda; Things I Should Have Said; River Is Wide, The; Baby Hold On; Temptation Eye's; Sooner or Later; Two Divided by Loe; Glory Bound;

Track Listing: Midnight Confessions; I'd Wait a Million Years; Heaven Knows; Baby Hold On; Temptation Eyes; Sooner or Later; Two Divided by Love; Glory Bound; River Is Wide, The; Bella Linda; Things I Should Have Said;

Okay, we know (and the packaging says it outright) that this disc is really Rob Grill, the longtime lead singer (and sole remaining member) of the Grassroots, backed by a band, an orchestra, and a string quartet. That said, it's ...

This isn't a bad little collection when it's paired with the accompanying Vol. 2 CD. And even on its own terms, limited though it is to ten songs -- drawn from across the group's first five years, from 1967 through ...

The Grass Roots' third hits compilation in barely two years was made necessary by the AM radio one-two punch of "Sooner or Later," a number nine hit (and their last Top Ten single), and "Two Divided by Love," which reached ...

Dennis Provisor, Terry Furlong, Joel Larson, Virgil Weber, Reed Kailing and Reggie Knighton are not part of the band's original line-up. It may be expensive, and two CDs of their work may seem like overkill, but this double-disc set is the ...

Dennis Provisor, Terry Furlong, Joel Larson, Virgil Weber, Reed Kailing and Reggie Knighton are not part of the band's original line-up. It may be expensive, and two CDs of their work may seem like overkill, but this double-disc set is the ...

14 Greatest Hits is a budget-priced collection that features the Grass Roots' biggest hits in versions that are most likely re-recorded. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine