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Humble Pie - Town And Country

Track listing:
  1. Take Me Back 4:53
  2. The Sad Bag Of Shaky Jake 2:59
  3. The Light Of Love 3:00
  4. Cold Lady 3:22
  5. Down Home Again 2:56
  6. Ollie Ollie 0:50
  7. Every Mothers Son 5:43
  8. Heartbeat 2:33
  9. Only You Can See 3:38
  10. Silver Tongue 3:20
  11. Home And Away 5:57

Notes


Anyone who thinks of Humble Pie solely in terms of their latter-day boogie rock will be greatly surprised with this, the band's second release, for it is almost entirely acoustic. There is a gently rocking cover of Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat," and a couple of electrified Steve Marriott numbers, but the overall feel is definitely more of the country than the town or city. "The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake" is a typical Marriott country ditty, similar to those he would include almost as a token on each of the subsequent studio albums, and "Every Mother's Son" is structured as a folk tale. On "The Light of Love," Marriott even plays sitar. Peter Frampton's contributions here foreshadow the acoustic-based music he would make as a solo artist a few years later. As a whole, this is a crisp, cleanly recorded, attractive-sounding album, totally atypical of the Humble Pie catalog, but well worth a listen.