Audio CD review:
Ten Years After - Roadworks

Ten Years After - Roadworks

Band: Ten Years After Title: Roadworks Rating: Release Date: 15 August, 2005 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: King of the Blues 2: Hear Me Calling/Calling Jam/Hear Me Calling 3: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 4: (When It) All Falls Down 5: Working on the Road 6: Big Black 7: Hobbit 8: Living It Up 9: Love Like a Man/Love Jam/Love Like a Man 10: I'd Love to Change the World 11: Time to Kill 12: I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes/Jammin' on One Chord/I Can't ... 13: I'm Going Home 14: Reasons Why 15: Choo Choo Mama

Customer Reviews If you wanna rock, this is the right space in time I could not believe it. Wow, I just came back from the Ten Years After concert in Los Angeles. It was fantastic. I bought the Roadworks album at the show and the band signed it. The three of us went to the show. We expected a lot and I knew it was gonna be great, but the band blew us away. One of us has always spoken about his best concert ever, Pink Floyd. He said that noone could ever beat it. Yesterday he did not know, who Ten Years After were. "Now" they are his favourite band. Alvin Lee played the Gibson and his replacement, Joe Gooch (I heard his name the first time at the concert), plays the Strat. It's a change, but it works. I could not have imagined that anybody could replace Alvin that well. "Roadworks" is great and it deserves 5 stars all the way. Joe's strat works and whoever is into Rock will love this album. There's a 7 minute drum solo called "the Hobbit" on the album and Ric Lee performed it well. It's a long drum solo in the style of the sixties. When you are into drum solos, you will enjoy it a lot. It's a rockin' free album from the beginning to the end. My favourite band is Led Zeppelin and I know the heaven of a lot about Rock, but "now" I know one more thing: I love Ten Years After with or without Alvin Lee. Go for the new Ten Years After "Now" when you prefer the studio and get their live double cd, when you want to hear them live. You can't fail. The concert came so close to me with listenining to the "Roadworks" album. Woodstock's "I'm going home" came back in a great way. Listen to the album, enjoy it and you will feel that Rock'n'Roll comes so close to you and it lives forever. Hey Hey, My My Rock'n'Roll will never die. . Concentrate on New, leave the old to Alvin Lee Gooch is a fine player but he doesn't measure up to the original and his attempts at copying Lee on the guitar sound lame; plus his vocals are weak. Maybe if they concentrated on the new songs and left Alvin Lee to play the Alvin Lee songs I'd have a better opinion of this album. The new music is loud and powerful, though, and if you can take this band on the basis of what they are creating now, they work well into the blues/rock niche. . FOR NOSTALGIA AND HEAVY METAL FANS I am thinking 1969 Woodstock, where Ten Years After stole the show. This record takes no prisoners!! It is designed to replicate the sound and feel of being at a large outdoor music festival. You absolutely must play this loud, preferably thru a home theatre system with a powered subwoofer. The original lineup is on hand, except with a new singer guitarist, Joe Gooch. He does a good job of duplicating the late 60s guitar: reminds me of Roger Mcguinn of the Byrds doing Eight Miles High, on some songs. If you're into heavy metal, this is a good bridge into blues rock and classic rock n' roll. They seem to be leaning into an arena rock direction, with a power rock sound, trying to get the younger fans. But many of the old standards are here: check out the playlist. Drum fans will like Ric Lee's song, The Hobbit. This offering isn't for everyone. If you're into softer, pure blues rock, get their classic late 60s and early to about mid 70s studio material. If you like swing jazz/boogie, recorded in a small club, check out their outstanding UNDEAD cd. I think it's their best record. Well, I'm Going Home, but being an old guy, I won't be doing any baby shaking!! . . You can see a complete list of all Ten Years After discography, or go back to the Ten Years After tabs