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Singer-songwriter Alice Harper would become Alice "Swoboda" after hearing about mediocre Yankee outfielder Ron Swoboda. The name was beauty to her ears and expressed something of her soul. “I Think It’s Time (You Were Mine)” is progressive Southern soul that sharply translates Alice’s songwriting into pop, but it was very uncharacteristic of her personal style. Alice’s mother—hearing it for the first time—asked, “Who is that singing?” This didn’t stop Roulette from licensing it, and the New Jersey company even managed to make a tiny dent in the charts and secure Alice a local following. When she returned to Muscle Shoals a few months later, she recorded a piece that was much closer to home. “Potter’s Field” is a mellow slice of soul-folk that certainly didn’t fit in any genre that anyone at R&B radio knew, keeping its fingers in every bowl on the table: coffeehouse folk, late night jazz, and eccentric soul. The beauty of Swoboda’s two singles was lost on the audience her label had access to and failed to catch on. Alice Swoboda did not give up, however, managing to channel the hype around her releases into a performing career and becoming a luminary of the Atlanta folk scene.
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