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Artist: Ten Years After
Recorded: May 14 1968 at Klook's Kleek Railway Hotel/West
Hampstead, London, England
Released: 1968
Label: Deram
Ten Years After
discography
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| 1. Rock Your Mama (Bonus
Track) |
Lyrics |
| 2. Spoonful (Bonus
Track) |
Lyrics |
| 3. I May Be Wrong,
But I Won't Be Wrong Always |
Lyrics |
| 4. Summertime/Shantung
Cabbage |
Lyrics |
| 5. Spider In Your Web |
Lyrics |
| 6. Woodchopper's Ball |
Lyrics |
| 7. Standing At The
Crossroads (Bonus Track) |
Lyrics |
| 8. I Can't Keep From
Crying, Sometimes/Extension On One Chord (Bonus Track) |
Lyrics |
| 9. I'm Going Home |
Lyrics |
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Recorded live in a small club in 1968, this set was Ten Years After's commercial breakthrough album. There's no estimating how many aspiring guitar heroes heard it and immediately wanted to kill themselves. Leader Alvin Lee's fleet-fingered fret work, although no big deal by jazz standards, sounded pretty revolutionary in a rock context, and started a school of guitar playing in which speed matters above all other musical considerations which continues to this day. UNDEAD is a good, unpretentious set of mostly uptempo blues jams (the most famous being Ten Years After's signature "Goin' Home," immortalized in the WOODSTOCK movie). However, there's no mistaking the period in which it was made--a big clue being a cover of Gershwin's ultra-melodic "Summertime" that's primarily a vehicle for a drum solo.
UK remastered reissue of the British blues-rock quartet's 1968 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Rock Your Mama', 'Spoonful' & 'I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes/Extension On One Chord'. 2002. |
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