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Ten Years After - Essential Audio CD

A fair review of the Ten Years After "Essential" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ten Years After reviews here, or go back to the Ten Years After tabs.

Ten Years After Band: Ten Years After
Title: Essential
Rating:
Release Date: 1991-08-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rock and Roll Music to the World 2: I'd Love to Change the World 3: I'm Going Home 4: Choo Choo Mama 5: Tomorrow I'll Be Out of Town 6: I Woke up This Morning 7: Me and My Baby 8: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 9: Goin' Back to Birmingham 10: 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 11: Sweet Little Sixteen 12: I'm Coming On 13: Love Like a Man 14: Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N Roll You

Great British Blues Rock!
And they play the best Blues rock ever!

I grew up with TYA ever since my older brother had many of their albums (and in even had a poster of Alvin hanging up in the hallway as we go downstairs from upstairs). One reviewer above here got it wrong: TYA aren't Southern rockers--they are from England.

Alvin is an amazing guitarist and this collection includes so many of their best songs. One I would include? "The Stomp" (from "Sssh").

Note : Alvin has a new solo album called "Saguitar" (2008) and TYA have a young kid replacing Alvin , with Leo , Chick and Ric still in tow. . . How could anyone replace Alvin?!?.


Thank You Amazon for stocking the Southern Rock Music that I love....
Thank you and your Management for thinking of us 1960 & 1970 Southern Rock Lovers. Hello Amazon,

I have been looking for this CD from Ten Years After for years. Outstanding Company is Amazon is all I can say.


TYA - Best British Boogie Band
They came along at a time when they were eclipsed by big names like, Zepplin, Clapton, Deep Purple, etc. TYA is a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, they never really got a lot of respect. If you accept them for what they were, a British boogie/blues quartet from northern England, I think they fare very well with their better known mates.

There is nothing fancy or pretentious about the songs. Musically, they are as tight a band as there was during that era. A few people are aware that Alvin Lee was one of the best guitarists playing in the 70's, however, Leo's bass, Chick's organ and Ric's drums were all very solid. They could flat out jam! Alvin's solo's can tend to be a bit one demensional at times but if you are a guitar affecionato, he can send goose bumps up your spine. IMO, he was everybit the equal of Page and Clapton in pure technique (no one was in Hendrix's league but that's another story).

This Best Of CD captures the essance of TYA's body of work. Crank up the CD player and pop open your favorite beverage. Ten Years After still rocks in a major way Thirty Years After.

MV Ferraro.


Good bang for the buck.
The "Essential Ten years after" collection does a great job revealing the fundamental sound that made this band great. Most people know Ten Tears After from the song "I'd love to change the world" which, although a fantastic song that stands up on its own, isn't exactly typical of what the band really excelled at---Blues-Rock. If you aren't an Alvin Lee fan, this album (cd!)will probably make you one. .


Correction
It is not. One of the reasons I bought this was after reading a review on Amazon, someone wrote that the live version of "I'm Going Home" was from Woodstock. Just like Big Brother's live version of "Ball and Chain" from Monterey, it is impossible to re-capture a signature live performance. The Woodstock version of "I'm, Going Home" is not matched here.


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