Disclaimer: All info that does not reside in my brain is gathered from wikipedia.com (mostly because Jon can't stand it) unless otherwise noted.
This week we are visiting with the British blues rock band Ten Years After, led by songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Alvin Lee. The album A Space In Time is the band's sixth studio album. It was released in August of 1971 and supposedly was less heavy than previous work and featured more acoustic guitar work. It has been theorized that TYA was influenced by Led Zeppelin and their success with a mix of acoustic songs and heavier, electric based songs.
A Space In Time was a hit for the band, topping out at number 17 on the Billboard 200. I'd Love To Change The World was the band's biggest hit, charting at number 40 in America. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You had moderate success as it reached number 60 in the USA. Uncle Jam is the only track on the album that wasn't written by Alvin Lee.
I bought this album on May 15, 2015 for $7.99. Good thing too, because now the same cd is listed at $29.99. That's pretty steep!
Side One:
1. One of These Days
2. Here They Come
3. I'd Love To Change The World
4. Over The Hill
5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll Me
Side Two:
6. Once There Was A Time
7. Let The Sky Fall
8. Hard Monkeys
9. I've Been There Too
10. Uncle Jam
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I have this.....on cassette! Never picked up the CD since it needed a remaster and there's a boxset coming out in about a month so I'll probably be picking that puppy up. This is a really good album, believe it's their most well-known and it makes sense, in a way. Considering TYA was recording before LZ, I don't see how they influenced them?
Has nothing to do with who recorded first. It said they were influenced with LZ's success with acoustic and heavy songs.
Yet they were doing acoustic and heavy songs before LZ so I'm just a'-wonderin'.
They weren't successful like LZ's acoustic and heavy songs. They were influenced by LZ's success.
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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