Ten Years After (Ten Years After album)

Ten Years After
Studio album by Ten Years After
Released	October 27, 1967
Recorded	September 1967 Decca Studios, London
Genre	Blues rock, jazz rock
Length	35:12
Label	Deram
Producer	Mike Vernon, Gus Dudgeon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After (1967) Undead (1968)

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Ten Years After is the debut album by the English blues rock band Ten Years After. It features "Spoonful", a Howlin' Wolf song (written for him by Willie Dixon) that the British blues rock group Cream covered as well (on their albums Fresh Cream and Wheels of Fire). The album is also low on original material in comparison to the band's later works which were, in most cases, entirely composed of Alvin Lee's songs. It's one of the first blues rock albums released by the British artists.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Want to Know" (Sheila McLeod as pseudonym Paul Jones) – 2:11
2. "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes" (Al Kooper) – 5:24
3. "Adventures of a Young Organ" (Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill) – 2:34
4. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 6:05
5. "Losing the Dogs" (Alvin Lee, Gus Dudgeon) – 3:03

Side two

6. "Feel It for Me" (Alvin Lee) – 2:40
7. "Love Until I Die" (Alvin Lee) – 2:06
8. "Don't Want You Woman" (Alvin Lee) – 2:37
9. "Help Me" (Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson) – 9:51

2002 bonus tracks

Remastered CD, Deram 8828972

• "Portable People" [Mono Single Version] (Alvin Lee) – 2:17
• "The Sounds" [Mono Single Version] (Alvin Lee) – 4:29
• "Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) – 3:01
• "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) – 7:11
• "Hold Me Tight" (Alvin Lee) – 2:18
• "(At the) Woodchopper's Ball" (Joe Bishop, Woody Herman) – 7:46

Personnel

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

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