Ten Years After (Ten Years After album)

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Ten Years After
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ReleasedOctober 27, 1967
RecordedSeptember 1967
Studio Decca Studios, London
Genre Blues rock, jazz rock
Length36:00
Label Deram
Producer Mike Vernon, Gus Dudgeon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After
(1967)
Undead
(1968)
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Ten Years After is the debut album by English blues rock band Ten Years After. Recorded at Decca Studios in London in September 1967, and released on October 27, 1967, it was one of the first blues rock albums by British musicians. It has less original material than the band's later works, which were, in most cases, composed entirely of Alvin Lee's songs.

Contents

It features "Spoonful", a Howlin' Wolf song (written for him by Willie Dixon) that the British blues rock group Cream had covered the previous year on their debut album Fresh Cream with an extended live version on Wheels of Fire .

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I Want to Know" (Sheila McLeod as pseudonym Paul Jones) – 2:08
  2. "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes" (Al Kooper) – 5:21
  3. "Adventures of a Young Organ" (Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill) – 2:32
  4. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 6:00
  5. "Losing the Dogs" (Alvin Lee, Gus Dudgeon) – 2:58
Side two
  1. "Feel It for Me" (Alvin Lee) – 2:37
  2. "Love Until I Die" (Alvin Lee) – 2:04
  3. "Don't Want You Woman" (Alvin Lee) – 2:34
  4. "Help Me" (Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson) – 9:46

2002 bonus tracks

Remastered CD, Deram 8828972

Personnel

Ten Years After

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References

  1. "Ten Years After". AllMusic .