Think Alvin Lee and most people will tell you what a great blues guitarist he is, but he's also one great rock and roller and this collection showcases that. This is a collection of songs he did both with his old band Ten Years After and "solo"…
Few British guitarists have given themselves to the blues with the same tenacity and perseverance as Alvin Lee. What to many of his generation was still a received method, to Lee was an organically absorbed culture he completely assimilated in. And what others have later began moving away from – be it toward hard rock, pop, or jazz fusion – to him has always remained a constant source of self-fulfillment…
Cricklewood Green provides the best example of Ten Years After's recorded sound. On this album, the band and engineer Andy Johns mix studio tricks and sound effects, blues-based song structures, a driving rhythm section, and Alvin Lee's signature lightning-fast guitar licks into a unified album that flows nicely from start to finish…
Founder members Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons and Ric Lee, together with ace guitarist/vocalist Joe Gooch, have done it again. Roadworks, recorded on their sell-out tour of Europe in November/ December 2004 is the smash follow-up to their hugely successful studio album Now…
Ssssh was Ten Years After's new release at the time of their incendiary performance at the Woodstock Festival in August, 1969. As a result, it was their first hit album in the U.S., peaking at number 20 in September of that year. This recording is a primer of British blues-rock of the era, showcasing Alvin Lee's guitar pyrotechnics and the band's propulsive rhythm section…
Recorded live in a small London club, Undead contains the original "I'm Going Home," the song that brought Ten Years After its first blush of popularity following the Woodstock festival and film in which it was featured…
Alvin Lee and Company is the third compilation album by Ten Years After released by their old record label Deram after they had switched to Columbia Records. It consists of songs that didn't make it on the older records and a few alternative versions of old songs…
Pure Blues is a compilation album of Alvin Lee’s music both with Ten Years After and his solo work and was released in 1995. The album featured singles “Don’t Want You Woman” from Ten Years After’s self-titled debut and “I Woke Up This Morning”, and “The Stomp” (both from the SSSSH album) and two killer live tracks, “Slow Blues in C” and “Help Me” from the Recorded Live album.