Ten Years After (Ten Years After album)

Ten Years After is the debut album by English blues rock band Ten Years After. Recorded at Decca Studios in London in September 1967, and released on 27 October 1967, it was one of the first blues rock albums by British musicians.

Ten Years After
Studio album by Ten Years After
Released	27 October 1967
Recorded	September 1967
Studio	Decca Studios, London
Genre	Blues rock
Length	36:00
Label	Deram
Producer	Mike Vernon, Gus Dudgeon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After (1967) Undead (1968)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

This album has less original material than the band's later works, most of which were composed entirely of Alvin Lee's songs. It features "Spoonful", a song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf, which the British blues rock group Cream had covered the previous year on their debut album Fresh Cream, with an extended live version on their third album, Wheels of Fire (1968).

The band's cover of "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes" is based on Al Kooper's arrangement from The Blues Project's album Projections.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Want to Know" (Sheila McLeod as pseudonym Paul Jones) – 2:08
2. "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes" (Al Kooper) – 5:21
3. "Adventures of a Young Organ" (Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill) – 2:32
4. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) – 6:00
5. "Losing the Dogs" (Alvin Lee, Gus Dudgeon) – 2:58

Side two

6. "Feel It for Me" (Alvin Lee) – 2:37
7. "Love Until I Die" (Alvin Lee) – 2:04
8. "Don't Want You Woman" (Alvin Lee) – 2:34
9. "Help Me" (Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson) – 9:46

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

Ten Years After

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

References

1. "Ten Years After". AllMusic.