Undead (Ten Years After album) explained
Undead is a live album by Ten Years After, recorded at the small jazz club Klooks Kleek in London on 14 May 1968, and released in July of that year. The show combined blues, boogie and jazz playing that merged more traditional rock and roll with 1950s-style jump blues. The album "amply illustrates" Alvin Lee's "eclectic" use of the pentatonic scale mixed with other modalities.[5]
Track listing
- Side one
- "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" (Alvin Lee) - 10.28
- "Woodchopper's Ball" (Woody Herman, Joe Bishop) - 7:48
- Side two
- "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) - 7:46
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin) / "Shantung Cabbage" (Ric Lee) - 5:56
- "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) - 6:27
2002 CD reissue
- "Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) - 3:46
- "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) - 6:23
- "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" - 9:49
- "Summertime" / "Shantung Cabbage" - 5:44
- "Spider in Your Web" - 7:43
- "Woodchopper's Ball" - 7:38
- "Standing at the Crossroads" (Elmore James & Robert Johnson) - 4:10
- "I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes / Extension on One Chord / I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes (reprise)" (Al Kooper, Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons, Alvin Lee, Ric Lee) - 17:04
- "I'm Going Home" - 6:24
Personnel
- Ten Years After
Charts
Album – Billboard (United States)
Release history
| Year | Type | Label | Country | Catalog # |
|---|
| 1968 | LP | DERAM | US, Canada | DES 18016[6] |
| LP | DERAM | Netherlands | 9286 927 |
| LP | DECCA | Germany | 6.21 585 |
| LP | DERAM | UK | SML 1023 |
| 2002 | CD | DERAM | UK | 8828992 |
| CD | DERAM | Germany | 820 533-2 |
| 2009 | CD | Universal Distribution | | 94203[7] |
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Notes and References
- 27 July 1968. New Album Releases. Billboard. 40. 8 June 2022.
- 20 July 1968. Ten Years Later. Record Mirror. 4. 8 June 2022.
- 17 August 1968. Advert. Melody Maker. 4. 8 June 2022.
- Web site: The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums Of All Time. 23 March 2007. Classic Rock. Future plc. 1 September 2018.
- Book: Cope, Andrew L.. Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music. 2010. Ashgate. 9780754699903. 32.
- Web site: Ten Years After - Ten Years After Undead at Discogs . discogs.com . 5 January 2011.
- Web site: Undead - Ten Years After . allmusic.com . 5 January 2011.
