Undead (Ten Years After album)

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Undead
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Live album by
ReleasedJuly 1968 [USA] [1] [2]
16 August 1968 [UK] [3]
Recorded14 May 1968
Venue Klooks Kleek, London
Genre Blues rock [4]
Length38:25
68:41 (reissue)
Label Deram
Producer Mike Vernon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After
(1967)
Undead
(1968)
Stonedhenge
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone (positive) [6]

Undead is a live album by Ten Years After, recorded at the small jazz club Klooks Kleek in London on 14 May 1968, and released in July of that year. The show combined blues, boogie and jazz playing that merged more traditional rock and roll with 1950s-style jump blues. The album "amply illustrates" Alvin Lee's "eclectic" use of the pentatonic scale mixed with other modalities. [7]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
  1. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" (Alvin Lee) – 10.28
  2. "Woodchopper's Ball" (Woody Herman, Joe Bishop) – 7:48
Side two
  1. "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) – 7:46
  2. "Summertime" (George Gershwin) / "Shantung Cabbage" (Ric Lee) – 5:56
  3. "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) – 6:27

2002 CD reissue

  1. "Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) – 3:46
  2. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 6:23
  3. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" – 9:49
  4. "Summertime" / "Shantung Cabbage" – 5:44
  5. "Spider in Your Web" – 7:43
  6. "Woodchopper's Ball" – 7:38
  7. "Standing at the Crossroads" (Elmore James & Robert Johnson) – 4:10
  8. "I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes / Extension on One Chord / I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes (reprise)" (Al Kooper, Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons, Alvin Lee, Ric Lee) – 17:04
  9. "I'm Going Home" – 6:24

Personnel

Ten Years After

Charts

AlbumBillboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1968The Billboard 200115

Release history

YearTypeLabelCountryCatalog #
1968LPDERAMUS, CanadaDES 18016
LPDERAMNetherlands9286 927
LPDECCAGermany6.21 585
LPDERAMUKSML 1023
2002CDDERAMUK8828992
CDDERAMGermany820 533-2
2009CDUniversal Distribution94203 [8]

References

  1. "New Album Releases" (PDF). Billboard. 27 July 1968. p. 40. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  2. "Ten Years Later" (PDF). Record Mirror . 20 July 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  3. "Advert" (PDF). Melody Maker . 17 August 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. "The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums of All Time". Classic Rock . 23 March 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  5. "Undead – Ten Years After". AllMusic.
  6. Hansen, Barrett (12 October 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone.
  7. Cope, Andrew L. (2010). Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music. Ashgate. p. 32. ISBN   9780754699903.
  8. "Undead – Ten Years After". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 January 2011.