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Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green Audio CD

A fair review of the Ten Years After "Cricklewood Green" 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: Cricklewood Green
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Release Date: 2001-03-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sugar the Road 2: Working on the Road 3: 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 4: Year 3, 000 Blues 5: Me and My Baby 6: Love Like a Man 7: Circles 8: As the Sun Still Burns Away

Have happy feet again!
IT WAS A FAVORITE. Great music, I had this album while in the military from 1970-1974. Glad to find it on disc.


50,000 Miles - And 40 Years Later - I Still Love 'Ten Years After!'
They had a driving beat, long instrumental work and the great Alvin Lee as lead guitarist and singer. For years, I would tell friends that "Ten Years After" was my favorite group and they would respond, "Who?" Well, I liked `em in the 1960s and I still do. Of all their albums, "Cricklewood Green" was one of my favorites.

It was one of my favorites strictly for just a couple of the numbers, like "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" which really showed off Lee's guitar talents. By the way, isn't that title sooo `60s-sounding? I've been listening to that song for almost 40 years now!

"Love Like A Man" was another of the longer songs I enjoyed, once again because of Lee's guitar riffs. That, and the first two songs and that was enough for me to enjoy this CD many times over.


rock head
takes me back in time. love this album. good too see you can still get good rock& roll. buy it. alvin lee still rocks.


rock and roll baby
Sometimes they'd let it rip and just play lengthy blues jams. Ten Years After were a pretty unique band back in the day. Other times they focused on shorter rock songs where the songwriting was the most important thing.

Cricklewood Green is mostly a songwriting-dominated album. If you like early 70's rock, this is definitely the album for you. While I'm slightly disappointed that the lightning fast guitar work made famous by Alvin Lee is absent for the most part, the album has some really nice vocal melodies and guitar tricks to make up for that.

The first track called "Sugar the Road" has a vocal style that reminds me of Boz Scaggs, but the music is good classic rock. It's one of those hard rock party song, no doubt about that. The guitar solo is nice, but not as good as other examples from the band. Actually, I can imagine the J. Geils Band doing this song live.

"Working on the Road' starts off with a nice groove and features a typically-fantastic early 70's vibe to the vocal melody. Hey, I like 70's music, and that's why I say "typically-fantastic" because just about EVERY thing music-related back then sounds good to me (and holds up quite well too). "50,000 Miles Beneath my Brain" really reminds me of the Rolling Stones classic "Sympathy for the Devil". Must be the way the music starts off quietly and eventually builds into a loud jam (though entirely listenable). I'm sure back in the day this would be a song considered as heavy as rock music can possibly be.

"Year 3,000 Blues" is a short 2-minute country song. It doesn't bother me, but doesn't excite me either. It's just there. "Me and My Baby" is a pure blues song with tasty guitar licks and other exciting things. I love it, especially the piano solo appearing around the halfway point. "Love Like a Man" is the one song on the record where the guitar is really showcased, and played with lots of excitement. I love this song as well. "Circles" is a vocal melody-dominated track (smooth, quiet and very pleasant) and "As the Sun Still Burns Away" is a very Spooky Tooth-sounding track. Pretty good stuff.

While the band had better albums, this is definitely worth owning. .


Great!
And Alvin Lee. Great studio album. . . well, what can you say? He's still one of the best to this day. Speed, finesse, and soul, a rare combination. You can feel the emotion of every note he plays, his emotions come right out through his fingers. An incredible depth of feeling. Alvin Lee is one of the best, next to Peter Green (when he was with Fleetwood Mac) and Clapton.


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