TEN YEARS AFTER
TEN YEARS AFTER
12"
VINYL
RECORD LP
BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED
UMCLP039
UPC | 0805520240390
1967, 2023
TRACK LISTING
SIDE ONE
1. I Want To Know
2. I Can’t Keep From Crying, Sometimes
3. Adventures Of A Young Organ
4. Spoonful
5. Losing The Dogs
SIDE TWO
1. Feel It For Me
2. Love Until I Die
3. Don’t Want You, Woman
4. Help Me
Ten Years After’s self-titled debut hit the British blues scene with the
subtlety and precision of a wrecking ball in 1967, serving notice that
what had once been confined to steamy haunts in London was now there for the
world to hear. And by the time the band electrified half a million hippies at
Woodstock two years later, the world was roaring its approval.
Cut live with vocals overdubbed later, Ten Years After is an impressive
debut, showing off a tight band steeped not only in blues, but rockabilly, jazz,
folk and even occasionally psychedelia. They rival Cream on a powerful
cover of “Spoonful”, which sports a heavy rhythm drive also evident on
their extended jam version of “Help Me” that builds and builds to
stratospheric heights. The latter allows Alvin Lee to cut loose with the
fast licks for which he would become best known, but he was also capable of
subtler, more impressionistic soloing on a stellar remake of the Blues
Project’s “I Can’t Keep From Crying, Sometimes”.
If those three aren’t enough evidence of the band's ability, then a spruced-up “I
Want to Know”, first done by Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse on the
legendary What’s Shakin’ compilation, certainly seals the deal. But even
at this early stage, Ten Years After was no cover act -- throwing
originals like the Robert Johnson-inspired “Love Until I Die”, the
country acoustic blues of “Don’t Want You Woman” and the swingin’ boogie
of “Feel It for Me” into the mix. It was no one-man show, either -- as
organist Chick Churchill takes the lead on “Adventures of a Young
Organ” and buttresses “Losing the Dogs” with some rollicking Jerry
Lee Lewis piano. And beneath it all, there was the metronomic telepathy of
the Ric Lee/Leo Lyons rhythm section.
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