by Richie Unterberger
Besides &My Friend Jack,& other highlights of the Smoke's only album (all but one of whose tracks were group originals) include the beautiful mid-tempo ballad &Waterfall& and the bee-humming guitars and lilting backup vocals on &You Can't Catch Me.& This Repertoire reissue of the original LP adds 14 additional cuts, including non-LP singles, a single issued in 1965 by the Shots (an earlier version of the group), a single puzzlingly issued under the alias the Chords Five, and an interesting alternate take of &My Friend Jack.& A lot of these tracks pale in comparison to the 12 from the original album, but &Have Some More Tea& is a great Who-ish number, and &Sydney Gill& is a good stab at a more progressive mood. [Originally released in 1967, It's Smoke Time was reissued on CD in 2006 and contains the first 12 tracks of the original LP.]