Back Door (album) explained

Back Door
Type:studio
Artist:Back Door
Cover:Back Door - Back Door.jpg
Recorded:3 June – in London, England
Genre:Jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length:30:52
Label:Blakey (original)
Warner Bros. (re-issue)
Next Title:8th Street Nites
Next Year:1973

Back Door is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Back Door, released independently in 1972 by Blakey Records. It received wider distribution when it was adopted by Warner Bros. the following year. It introduced the group's virtuoso approach to jazz, funk, soul, blues and hard rock music. In 2005, the album was listed on JazzTimes' top fifty albums released between 1970 and 2005.[1] In 2014 it was re-released on CD, compiled with 8th Street Nites and Another Fine Mess, by BGO Records.[2]

The original album cover shows a photograph of the back door of the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge in the North York Moors. The Warner Brothers re-release shows the Lion Inn in the snow with an small inset picture of the band in front of the inn's back door.

The track "Catcote Rag" is a bass solo named after The Catcote, a pub in Hartlepool (now demolished) where Back Door played regularly.

“Slivadiv” was sampled by Beastie Boys as the intro to “Stand Together” on their 1992 album Check Your Head.

Personnel

Adapted from the Back Door liner notes.[3]

Back Door

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United Kingdom1972BlakeyLPBLP. 5989
1973Warner Bros.K 46231
United StatesBS 2716
Europe2000CD936 247 759

Notes and References

  1. Web site: JazzTimes Top 50, 1970-2005 . . 2005 . 19 January 2016.
  2. Web site: Mark . Gilbert . Review: Back Door, Back Door et al . . 2014 . 19 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160126183614/http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/magazine/904/review-back-door-back-door-et-al . 26 January 2016 . dead .
  3. Back Door . . 1972 . sleeve . Blakey Records . Blakey Ridge, Yorkshire.