Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
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Artist: Ten Years After
Recorded:
1968, Sep 3-12 at West Hampstead Studios, London, England
Released: 1968
Label: Deram

Ten Years After discography

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 1. Going To Try Lyrics
 2. I Can't Live Without Lydia Lyrics
 3. Woman Trouble Lyrics
 4. Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob Lyrics
 5. Hear Me Calling Lyrics
 6. A Sad Song Lyrics
 7. Three Blind Mice Lyrics
 8. No Title Lyrics
 9. Faro Lyrics
10. Speed Kills
Lyrics
11. Hear Me Calling (Bonus Track/Single Version)
Lyrics
12. Woman Trouble (Bonus Track/US Version) Lyrics
13. I'm Going Home (Bonus Track/Single Version) Lyrics
14. Boogie On (Bonus Track) Lyrics
 

This is their third album, prepared for CD from the original master tapes. Ten Years After: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Mike Vernon (vocals); Chick Churchill (piano, celesta, organ); Leo Lyons (bass guitar); Ric Lee (drums); Count Simon (bongos); Roy Baker (sound effects); The Bird, Reverb , Martin Smith. Ten Years After's third album is one of those artifacts that simply screams late '60s, which is to say its production is more than a little trippy, and it's also all over the stylistic map. "I Can't Live Without Lydia," for example, features keyboardist Chick Churchill making vaguely Brubeck-ian noises on up to four overdubbed pianos simultaneously. The next track, "Skoobly-Ooobly-Doobob," is a brief scat blues improvisation with guitar hero Alvin Lee playing and singing in unison, as Ric Lee's drums, just barely audible, putter about in both stereo channels seemingly at random. The album's centerpiece, of course, is "Hear Me Callin'," a sort of psychedelic take on John Lee Hooker-style blues complete with fashionable phasing effects (it was a substantial radio hit). However, true fans justifiably swear by the 55-second percussion version of "Three Blind Mice" that follows.

UK remastered reissue of the British blues-rock quartet's 1969 compilation includes five bonus tracks, 'Boogie On' (previously featured on the compilation Alvin Lee and Company), 'Hear Me Calling' (Single Version), 'Women Trouble' (US Mix - prev. unreleased) & 'I'm Going Home' (Single Version). 2002.