Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola (1969/2015) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 31:08 minutes | 670 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks |  @ Epic Records
Recorded: 3-19 April 1969, De Lane Lea Studios

Beck-Ola is The Jeff Beck Group’s first credited album originally released in 1969. The album made it to the number 15 spot on the Billboard 200 and features covers “All Shook Up” and “Jailhouse Rock” as well as original material by the group.

When it was originally released in June 1969, Beck-Ola, the Jeff Beck Group’s second album, featured a famous sleeve note on its back cover: “Today, with all the hard competition in the music business, it’s almost impossible to come up with anything totally original. So we haven’t. However, this disc was made with the accent on heavy music. So sit back and listen and try and decide if you can find a small place in your heads for it.” Beck was reacting to the success of peers and competitors like Cream and Led Zeppelin here, bands that had been all over the charts with a hard rock sound soon to be dubbed heavy metal, and indeed, his sound employs much the same brand of “heavy music” as theirs, with deliberate rhythms anchoring the beat, over which the guitar solos fiercely and the lead singer emotes. But he was also preparing listeners for the weakness of the material on an album that sounds somewhat thrown together. Two songs are rehauls of Elvis Presley standards (“All Shook Up” and “Jailhouse Rock”) and one is an instrumental interlude contributed by pianist Nicky Hopkins, promoted from sideman to group member, with the rest being band-written songs that serve basically as platforms for Beck’s improvisations. But that doesn’t detract from the album’s overall quality, due both to the guitar work and the distinctive vocals of Rod Stewart, and Beck-Ola easily could have been the album to establish the Jeff Beck Group as the equal of the other heavy bands of the day. Unfortunately, a series of misfortunes occurred. Beck canceled out of a scheduled appearance at Woodstock; he was in a car accident that sidelined him for over a year; and Stewart and bass player Ron Wood decamped to join Faces, breaking up the group. Nevertheless, Beck-Ola stands as a prime example of late-’60s British blues-rock and one of Beck’s best records. -AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann

Tracklist:
1 All Shook Up 04:56
2 Spanish Boots 03:39
3 Girl From Mill Valley 03:51
4 Jailhouse Rock 03:16
5 Plynth (Water Down the Drain) 03:10
6 The Hangman’s Knee 04:53
7 Rice Pudding 07:23

Personnel:
Jeff Beck – guitars
Rod Stewart – vocals
Nicky Hopkins – piano and organ
Ronnie Wood – bass
Tony Newman – drums

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