Ten Years After (Ten Years After album) explained

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.

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