Undead (Ten Years After album)

Undead
Live album by Ten Years After
Released	July 1968 [USA] [1] [2] 16 August 1968 [UK] [3]
Recorded	14 May 1968
Venue	Klooks Kleek, London
Genre	Blues rock [4]
Length	38:25 68:41 (reissue)
Label	Deram
Producer	Mike Vernon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After (1967) Undead (1968) Stonedhenge (1969)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[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]

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

3. "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) – 7:46
4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin) / "Shantung Cabbage" (Ric Lee) – 5:56
5. "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

• Alvin Lee – guitar, vocals
• Chick Churchill – organ
• Ric Lee – drums
• Leo Lyons – bass

Charts

Album – Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1968	The Billboard 200	115

Release history

Year	Type	Label	Country	Catalog #
1968	LP	DERAM	US, Canada	DES 18016
	LP	DERAM	Netherlands	9286 927
	LP	DECCA	Germany	6.21 585
	LP	DERAM	UK	SML 1023
2002	CD	DERAM	UK	8828992
	CD	DERAM	Germany	820 533-2
2009	CD	Universal Distribution		94203 [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.