Artist: TEN YEARS AFTER
Album: STONEDHENGE REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1969/ 2002
EAN/UPS: 0042288289821
Media type: CD

Ten Years After's third album is one of those artifacts that simply screams late '60s, which is to say its production is more than a little trippy, and it's also all over the stylistic map. "I Can't Live Without Lydia," for example, features keyboardist Chick Churchill making vaguely Brubeck-ian noises on up to four overdubbed pianos simultaneously. The next track, "Skoobly-Ooobly-Doobob," is a brief scat blues improvisation with guitar hero Alvin Lee playing and singing in unison, as Ric Lee's drums, just barely audible, putter about in both stereo channels seemingly at random.

The album's centerpiece, of course, is "Hear Me Callin'," a sort of psychedelic take on John Lee Hooker-style blues complete with fashionable phasing effects (it was a substantial radio hit). However, true fans justifiably swear by the 55-second percussion version of "Three Blind Mice" that follows.

UK remastered reissue of the British blues-rock quartet's 1969 compilation includes five bonus tracks, 'Boogie On' (previously featured on the compilation Alvin Lee and Company), 'Hear Me Calling' (Single Version), 'Women Trouble' (US Mix - prev. unreleased) & 'I'm Going Home' (Single Version). 2002.

TRACKLIST:

1. Going to Try - (studio)
2. I Can't Live Without Lydia - (studio)
3. Woman Trouble - (studio)
4. Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob - (studio)
5. Hear Me Calling - (studio)
6. A Sad Song - (studio)
7. Three Blind Mice - (studio)
8. No Title - (studio)
9. Faro - (studio)
10. Speed Kills - (studio)
11. Hear Me Calling - (take single version, studio)
12. Women Trouble - (take US version, studio)
13. I'm Going Home - (take single version, studio)
14. Boogie On - (studio)

LINE-UP:

Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano)
Mike Vernon (vocals)
Chick Churchill (piano, celesta, organ)
Leo Lyons (bass guitar)
Ric Lee (drums)
Count Simon (bongos)