Humble Pie - Town and Country (Immediate 1969) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

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 catalogue, but well worth a listen. Jim Newsom, Allmusic.

Track listing:

01. Take Me Back
02. The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake
03. The Light of Love
04. Cold Lady
05. Down Home Again
06. Ollie Ollie

07. Every Mothers Son
08. Heartbeat
09. Only You Can See
10. Silver Tongue
11. Home and Away

Bonus tracks:

From Immediate single IM 082
12. Natural Born Bugie
13. Wrist Job

Personnel:

Steve Marriott: guitar, vocals, sitar, percussion, Wurlitzer piano, drums
Peter Frampton: guitar, vocals, bass, drums, Wurlitzer piano, plastic cup
Greg Ridley: bass, vocals, guitar, tambourine
Jerry Shirley: drums, percussion saw, tambourine, tablas, maracas, Wurlitzer piano
Arranged by Humble Pie
Produced by Andy Johns
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London.