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''Undead'' is a
live album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by Ten Years After, recorded at the small jazz club, Klooks Kleek, in
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, May 1968, and released in July of that year. The show combined
blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
, boogie and jazz playing that merged more traditional
rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from Africa ...
with 1950s-style
jump blues Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as ...
. The album "amply illustrates" Alvin Lee's "eclectic" use of the pentatonic scale mixed with other modalities.


Track listing

;Side one #"I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" ( Alvin Lee) - 10.28 #"Woodchopper's Ball" (
Woody Herman Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his dea ...
,
Joe Bishop Joe Bishop (November 27, 1907 – May 12, 1976) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. Early life and education Bishop was born in Monticello, Arkansas. He learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when he was young, and also played ...
) - 7:48 ;Side two #
  • "Spider in My Web" (Alvin Lee) - 7:46 #" Summertime" (
    George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...
    ) / "Shantung Cabbage" ( Ric Lee) - 5:56 #"I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) - 6:27


    2002 CD reissue

    #"Rock Your Mama" (Alvin Lee) - 3:46 #"
    Spoonful "Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record ...
    " (
    Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...
    ) - 6:23 #"I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" - 9:49 #" Summertime" / "Shantung Cabbage" - 5:44 #"Spider in Your Web" - 7:43 #" Woodchopper's Ball" - 7:38 #" Standing at the Crossroads" ( Elmore James & Robert Johnson) - 4:10 #"I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes / Extension on One Chord / I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes (reprise)" ( Al Kooper,
    Chick Churchill Michael George "Chick" Churchill (born 2 January 1946) is an English keyboard player of the late 1960s to 1970s blues rock band Ten Years After. Career Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he wa ...
    , Leo Lyons, Alvin Lee, Ric Lee) - 17:04 #"I'm Going Home" - 6:24


    Personnel

    ;Ten Years After * Alvin Lee - guitar, vocals *
    Chick Churchill Michael George "Chick" Churchill (born 2 January 1946) is an English keyboard player of the late 1960s to 1970s blues rock band Ten Years After. Career Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he wa ...
    - organ * Ric Lee - drums * Leo Lyons - bass


    Charts


    Album

    Album -
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    (United States)


    Release history


    References

    {{DEFAULTSORT:Undead Ten Years After albums 1968 live albums Decca Records live albums Albums produced by Mike Vernon (record producer)