Now (Ten Years After album)

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Now
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Studio album by Ten Years After
Released July 13, 2004
Recorded 2004
Genre Blues rock
Length45:06
Label Ten Years After
Producer Leo Lyons
Ten Years After chronology
One Night Jammed
(2003)		Now
(2004)		 Roadworks Live
(2005)
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Now is the tenth studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 2004. [2]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock: electric guitar, electric bass, and drums, often with Hammond organ. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal. Blues rock continues to be an influence in the 2010s, with performances and recordings by popular artists.

Ten Years After rock band

Ten Years After are a British blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man". Their musical style consisted of blues rock and hard rock.

Contents

Longtime band member Alvin Lee had left the band to be replaced by singer/guitarist Joe Gooch alongside Chick Churchill (keys), Leo Lyons (bass), and Ric Lee (drums).

Alvin Lee English guitarist and singer

Alvin Lee was an English singer and guitarist, best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.

Track listing

  1. "When It All Falls Down" (Churchill, Gooch, Lee, Lyons) – 3:29
  2. "Hundred Miles High" (Churchill, Gooch, Lee, Lyons) – 7:07
  3. "Time to Kill" (Hans Koller, Lyons) – 4:33
  4. "I'll Make It Easy for You" (Churchill, Gooch, Lee, Lyons) – 5:34
  5. "The Voice Inside Your Head" (Churchill, Gooch, Lee, Lyons) – 4:34
  6. "King of the Blues" (Tony Crooks, Lyons) – 3:36
  7. "Long Time Running" (Gooch, Lyons, Mark Pullin) – 6:15
  8. "Reasons Why" (Gooch, Lyons, Pullin) – 4:42
  9. "Changes" (Churchill, Gooch, Lee, Lyons) – 5:14

Personnel

Joe Gooch British musician

Joe Gooch is an English musician who was known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of Ten Years After from 2003 to 2014.

Leo Lyons English musician

Leo David William Lyons is an English musician who was most notably the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.

Ric Lee English musician

Richard "Ric" Lee is an English drummer of the late 1960s to '70s blues rock band Ten Years After.

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References

  1. ↑ Prato, Greg. Now at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Now". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
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