TEN YEARS AFTER Cricklewood Green (Deram SML 1065) RARE UK 1st Pressing MINT
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TEN YEARS AFTER Cricklewood Green (Deram SML 1065) RARE UK 1st Pressing MINT
RARE UK first pressing of Ten Years After`s genre-defining album "Cricklewood Green" on Deram Records (April 1970).
"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. Cricklewood Green opens with a pair of bluesy rockers, with "Working on the Road" propelled by a guitar and organ riff that holds the listener's attention through the use of tape manipulation as the song develops. "50'000 Miles Beneath My Brain" and "Love Like a Man" are classics of TYA's jam genre, with lyrically meaningless verses setting up extended guitar workouts that build in intensity, rhythmically and sonically. (...) "Year 3000 Blues" is a country romp sprinkled with Lee's silly sci-fi lyrics, while "Me and My Baby" concisely showcases the band's jazz licks better than any other TYA studio track, and features a tasty piano solo by Chick Churchill. It has a feel similar to the extended pieces on side one of the live album Undead. "Circles" is a hippie-ish acoustic guitar piece, while "As the Sun Still Burns Away" closes the album by building on another classic guitar-organ riff and more sci-fi sound effects." - Jim Newsom, allmusic.com
GRADING:
MINT- COVER in absolutely pristine condition. Please see photos for details.
- "Sleeve made and printed in England by Garrod and Lofthouse International Limited" on back cover (at bottom right).
- Original Deram label Stereo/Mono "indicator hole" on back cover (at top right).
- Includes the original Deram Records inner sleeve in MINT- condition. Correctly date-stamped "4/70" at bottom right.
EX++ RECORD, carefully played a handful of times at most.
- Near-perfect vinyl on both sides, with impeccable audio reproduction throughout.
- A few superficial hairlines, visible under strong light and from sleeve removal only.
- A single, very light thumbnail scuff (1 inch long; not a scratch!) on Side Two is absolutely inaudible.
- Original first-pressing Deram Records labels with a single spindle line on each side.
- The matrix stamps in the run-off grooves read as "XZAL-9583.P-1W" and "XZAL-9584.P-1W".
- Mothers/stampers read as "M M / 7 G" on Side One and "M M / 1" on Side Two.
- This record is fully certified to be a UK first pressing of "Cricklewood Green", released in April 1970.
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