''Cricklewood Green'' is the fourth studio album by the English

blues rock Blues rock is a fusion music genre, genre and form of rock music, rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electri ...

band

Ten Years After Ten Years After are a British blues rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US ''Bi ...

, released in 1970 by

Deram Records Deram Records was a subsidiary record label of Decca Records established in the United Kingdom in 1966. At the time, U.K. Decca was a different company from the Decca label in the United States, which was owned by MCA Inc. Deram recordings w ...

Reception

In a retrospective review, Jim Newsom of

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opined that "the band and engineer

Andy Johns Jeremy Andrew Johns (20 May 1950 – 7 April 2013) was a British sound engineer and record producer who worked on several well-known rock albums, including the Rolling Stones' '' Exile on Main St.'' (1972), Television's '' Marquee Moon'' (1977), ...

mix studio tricks and sound effects, blues-based song structures, a driving rhythm section, and

Alvin Lee Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, who was best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Early life Lee was ...

's signature lightning-fast guitar licks into a unified album that flows nicely from start to finish."

Track listing

All songs written by Alvin Lee.

Personnel

;Ten Years After *

– guitar, vocals *

Leo Lyons Leo David William Lyons (born 30 November 1943) is an English musician, who was most known as the bassist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Biography Leo Lyons was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943 and became a profes ...

– bass *

Ric Lee Richard "Ric" Lee (born 20 October 1945) is an English drummer of the blues rock band Ten Years After. Ten Years After He was a founding member of his first band, The Falcons, and was also a drummer for Ricky Storm and The Mansfields, which h ...

– drums *

Chick Churchill Michael George "Chick" Churchill (born 2 January 1946) is an English keyboard player, who was with the blues rock band Ten Years After. Early career Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he was ...

– organ, piano and

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Charts

References

{{Authority control 1970 albums Ten Years After albums Chrysalis Records albums Deram Records albums Albums produced by Alvin Lee Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios