Been meaning to do this for a while - bit of an off-and-on mini-series on classic vinyl from my own collection. This is the inside sleeve of Ten Years After's gatefold album 'Ssssh' released on Deram in 1969. This was the first TYA album I purchased (second hand admittedly - but mint all the same). Seeing their performance of 'I'm Going Home' in the epic film version of Woodstock clinched it for me, and Alvin Lee's lightning-fast fretwork sold me on the band which would become one of the most inspiring in my formative years of music appreciation. There's a lot of good stuff here - from the opening 'Bad Scene' to the closing 'I woke up this morning'. But the penultimate track on side 2 is my Sssh favourite I think. The Stomp pre-dates 70's stadium rock by several years and yet somehow epitomises what so many bands to follow would take from the classic period of British blues rock to which this timeless album belongs.
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