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Them was perhaps the best of the British
blues-rock bands that emerged during the Sixties. The band covered much of the
same blues/R&B terrain as bands such as the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds,
yet they possessed the best white blues shouter of the era, Van Morrison.
Them was formed in Belfast, Ireland, in
1964, and the band quickly gained a reputation for its hard drinking and
brawling as well as music.
The band’s first album, “Here Comes the Night” (1965), was a brilliant debut which combined inspired covers of blues standards
and original material. The title track, “Here Comes the Night,” would become a
hit. “Mystic Eyes” and “Gloria” are also standout tracks. The band’s sophomore album,
“Them Again” (1966), continued in the same rave-up R&B vein with
outstanding covers of “Turn On Your Love Light,” “I Put a Spell on You,” and “I
Got a Woman.”
Van Morrison left the group after Them
Again to pursue a solo career and the band continued without him. Despite the
loss of Morrison, Them produced two more solid albums featuring a new
psychedelic sound, “Now and Them” (1968) and “Time Out! Time in for Them”
(1968).
