''Back Street Crawler'' is the debut studio album by English guitarist

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, released in 1973; the same year Kossoff's band Free disbanded, Kossoff was able to moderate his drug addiction to record the album, which featured contributions from his former Free bandmates, as well as

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drummer Alan White and

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Keyboardist, Jean Roussel. "Molten Gold" is not, as has been alleged, a reunion of the original Free line-up (Kossoff,

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, Andy Fraser,

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); it is an outtake from the 1972 Free album '' Free at Last'', with overdubs. "Time Away" features three-fifths of the Mk II Free line-up (Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu Yamauchi), along with singer-songwriter-guitarist

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, who would in 1975 invite Kossoff to guest on his own tour; this collaboration can be heard on expanded editions of Martyn's ''

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'' album.

Track listing

Original 1973 release

Deluxe edition, 2008

Personnel

* Paul Kossoff – lead guitar * Trevor Burton – bass ("Tuesday Morning") * Alan White – drums ("Tuesday Morning", "I'm Ready") * John "Rabbit" Bundrick – keyboards ("Tuesday Morning"); organ, chimes, piano ("Molten Gold") *

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– bass ("I'm Ready") * Jean Roussel – keyboards ("I'm Ready", "Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)") * Jess Roden – lead vocals ("I'm Ready"); harmony vocals ("Molten Gold") * Tetsu Yamauchi – bass ("Time Away") *

– drums ("Time Away", "Molten Gold") *

– lead vocals, guitar ("May You Never"); guitar ("Time Away", "Leslie Jam") *

– lead vocals ("Molten Gold") * Andy Fraser – bass ("Molten Gold") * Conrad Isidore – drums ("Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)") * Clive Chaman – bass ("Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)")

Production

* All songs produced by Paul Kossoff * "Time Away" and "Molten Gold" co-produced by Bob Potter * "Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)" co-produced by Richard "Diga" Digby Smith and Jean Roussel * "Tuesday Morning" and "Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)" engineered by Richard "Diga" Digby Smith * "I'm Ready" and "Molten Gold" engineered by Bob Potter * "Time Away" engineered by Tony Platt

References

Paul Kossoff albums 1973 albums Island Records albums Albums produced by Paul Kossoff {{Blues-album-stub