{"id":30645,"date":"2026-01-28T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30645"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:57:12","slug":"album-review-eternitys-children-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/album-review-eternitys-children-timeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Eternity’s Children \u2013 Timeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For their second album, Mississippi’s Eternity\u2019s Children upped the ante. While the first album’s<\/a> production team of Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen was gone, in their place came Gary Paxton et. al, who would do a fine job as well. The music on Timeless<\/em> is a notch or two more polished and arranged; it\u2019s the kind of thing one wold have expected to see and hear on Hollywood Palace<\/i> or the Smothers Brothers<\/i>\u2019 show. \u201cI Wanna Be With You\u201d has all the hallmarks of classic sunshine pop.<\/p>\n

The album seems to have been guided more by the producers, less by the artists than the debut, but that\u2019s not a problem. There\u2019s even less rock \u2013 and more MOR stylings \u2013 on this record, but accepted for what it is, Timeless is a wonderful collection of songs. Tasteful in the extreme, the album isn\u2019t as mawkish as some entries in the sunshine pop style. Imagine the space between Cowsills and Carpenters and you\u2019ll have a sense of what the music sounds and feels like. Slightly old-fashioned (even for then), showbizzy and slick, Timeless<\/i> is a lovely distillation of the qualities that make sunshine pop fondly remembered in some quarters (including this one).<\/p>\n

Steve Stanley\u2019s excellent essay included in High Moon\u2019s reissue of the first LP picks up right where it left off, bringing the Eternity\u2019s Children story to its conclusion. Original copies of Timeless<\/i> are quite rare; as Stanley writes, \u201cto this day, none of the members of Eternity\u2019s Children have ever seen an original copy.\u201d According to discogs, it wasn\u2019t even released in the U.S.. Canada, maybe. A used copy will set you back around $750, and with things as they are (fault ours not theirs), shipping from Canada means you might not even receive the records.<\/p>\n

But the former members of Eternity\u2019s Children \u2013 and I, and perhaps you \u2013 can luxuriate the finely-wrought soft-pop textures of the album in this new reissue of Timeless<\/i> from High Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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