Back Street Crawler (album) explained

Back Street Crawler
Type:studio
Artist:Paul Kossoff
Cover:Back Street Crawler (album).jpg
Released:16 November 1973
Recorded:Island Studios, London
Genre:Blues rock, hard rock, jam rock
Length:35:54
Label:Island

Back Street Crawler is the debut studio album by English guitarist Paul Kossoff, released in 1973; the same year Kossoff's band Free disbanded, Kossoff was able to moderate his drug addiction to record the album, which featured contributions from his former Free bandmates, as well as Yes drummer Alan White and Cat Stevens Keyboardist, Jean Roussel.

"Molten Gold" is not, as has been alleged, a reunion of the original Free line-up (Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser, Simon Kirke); it is an outtake from the 1972 Free album Free at Last, with overdubs.

"Time Away" features three-fifths of the Mk II Free line-up (Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu Yamauchi), along with singer-songwriter-guitarist John Martyn, who would in 1975 invite Kossoff to guest on his own tour; this collaboration can be heard on expanded editions of Martyn's Live at Leeds album.

Track listing

Deluxe edition, 2008

Personnel

Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 17 March 2008. Back Street Crawler (Deluxe Edition) (2008). 23 June 2020. John Martyn. en-GB.
  2. Web site: Kossoff* - Back Street Crawler. 23 June 2020. Discogs. 20 March 2008 . en.