Undead (Ten Years After album)

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Undead
Live album by
Ten Years After
ReleasedJuly 1968 [USA][1][2]
16 August 1968 [UK][3]
Recorded14 May 1968
VenueKlooks Kleek, London
GenreBlues rock[4]
Length38:25
68:41 (reissue)
LabelDeram
ProducerMike Vernon
Ten Years After chronology
Ten Years After
(1967) 		Undead
(1968) 		Stonedhenge
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [5]
Rolling Stone(positive) [6]

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.[7]

Track listing[edit]

Side one
  1. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" (Alvin Lee) - 10.28
  2. "Woodchopper's Ball" (Woody Herman, Joe Bishop) - 7:48
Side two
  2. "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) - 7:46
  3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin) / "Shantung Cabbage" (Ric Lee) - 5:56
  4. "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) - 6:27

2002 CD reissue[edit]

  1. "Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) - 3:46
  2. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) - 6:23
  3. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" - 9:49
  4. "Summertime" / "Shantung Cabbage" - 5:44
  5. "Spider in Your Web" - 7:43
  6. "Woodchopper's Ball" - 7:38
  7. "Standing at the Crossroads" (Elmore James & Robert Johnson) - 4:10
  8. "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
  9. "I'm Going Home" - 6:24

Personnel[edit]

Ten Years After

Charts[edit]

Album – Billboard (United States)

Year Chart Position
1968 The Billboard 200 115

Release history[edit]

Year Type Label Country Catalog #
1968 LP DERAM US, Canada DES 18016[8]
LP DERAM Netherlands 9286 927[8]
LP DECCA Germany 6.21 585[8]
LP DERAM UK SML 1023[8]
2002 CD DERAM UK 8828992[8]
CD DERAM Germany 820 533-2[8]
2009 CD Universal Distribution 94203[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Album Releases" (PDF). Billboard. 27 July 1968. p. 40. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Ten Years Later" (PDF). Record Mirror. 20 July 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Advert" (PDF). Melody Maker. 17 August 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. ^ "The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums Of All Time". Classic Rock. Future plc. 23 March 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Undead - Ten Years After". Allmusic.
  6. ^ Hansen, Barrett (12 October 1968). "Records". Rolling Stone. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. ^ Cope, Andrew L. (2010). Black Sabbath and the Rise of Heavy Metal Music. Ashgate. p. 32. ISBN 9780754699903.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Ten Years After - Ten Years After Undead at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  9. ^ "Undead - Ten Years After". allmusic.com. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
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