Ssssh

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Ssssh.
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1969
RecordedJune 1969
Studio Morgan, London
Genre Blues rock, psychedelic rock
Length32:44
Label Deram (original release)
Chrysalis (1975 reissue)
Producer Ten Years After
Ten Years After chronology
Stonedhenge
(1969)
Ssssh.
(1969)
Cricklewood Green
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Rolling Stone (negative) [2]
The Village Voice B [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Ssssh is the third studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1969. The album charted #20 on the Billboard 200 [5] and #4 on the UK charts.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed by Alvin Lee, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Bad Scene" – 3:20
  2. "Two Time Mama" – 2:05
  3. "Stoned Woman" – 3:25
  4. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 6:34

Side two

  1. "If You Should Love Me" – 5:25
  2. "I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name" – 1:56
  3. "The Stomp" – 4:34
  4. "I Woke Up This Morning" – 5:25

Personnel

Ten Years After

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References

  1. "Ssssh - Ten Years After". Allmusic.
  2. Gerson, Ben (18 October 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone . San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (44): 42.
  3. Christgau, Robert (11 December 1969). "Consumer Guide (5)". The Village Voice . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  4. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 807. ISBN   978-0-7432-0169-8.
  5. "allmusic ((( Ssssh > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 July 2010.