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live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th centur ...

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 ...

, recorded at the small jazz club Klooks Kleek in London on 14 May 1968, and released in July of that year. The show combined

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and jazz playing that merged more traditional

rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African ...

with 1950s-style

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. The album "amply illustrates" Alvin Lee's "eclectic" use of the

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mixed with other modalities.

Track listing

;Side one #"I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" ( Alvin Lee) – 10.28 #"Woodchopper's Ball" (

Woody Herman Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roo ...

, Joe Bishop) – 7:48 ;Side two #

"Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) – 7:46 #" Summertime" (

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular music, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swan ...

) / "Shantung Cabbage" ( Ric Lee) – 5:56 #"I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) – 6:27

2002 CD reissue

#"Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) – 3:46 #"

Spoonful "Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it’s one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record ...

" (

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

) – 6:23 #"I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" – 9:49 #" Summertime" / "Shantung Cabbage" – 5:44 #"Spider in Your Web" – 7:43 #" Woodchopper's Ball" – 7:38 #" Standing at the Crossroads" (

Elmore James Elmore James ( Brooks; January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. Noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice, James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Robert Johnson Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and songwriting on his landmark 1936 and 1937 recordings have influenced later generations of musicians. Although his r ...

) – 4:10 #"I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes / Extension on One Chord / I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes (reprise)" (

Al Kooper Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician. Throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, including playing organ on the Bob Dylan song " Like ...

, Chick Churchill,

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 ...

, Alvin Lee, Ric Lee) – 17:04 #"I'm Going Home" – 6:24

Personnel

;Ten Years After * Alvin Lee – guitar, vocals * Chick Churchill – organ * Ric Lee – drums *

– bass

Charts

Release history

References

{{Authority control Ten Years After albums 1968 live albums Decca Records live albums Albums produced by Mike Vernon (record producer)