a great place to start and end

if you take all of the best songs from the the albums before and after cricklewood they would not come close to being as good as this album.

Ten Years After's Stunning 1970 Release!

Released in 1970, "Cricklewood Green" was one of the bands best recordings to date. With this album, their fifth, The British Blues Rock band even surpasses their prior album "Ssssh" released a year earlier. The album is a combination of blues represented here by "Year 3,000 Blues" and "Me And My Baby" and no holds barred rockers such as "Sugar The Road", "Working On The Road" and the classic "Love Like A Man". Ten Years After also adds a psychedelic touch to "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" and "As The Sun Still Burns Away". Guitarist Alvin Lee needs no introduction as he was clearly the fastest guitarist of the late 60's and seventies beating out Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. "Cricklewood Green" should be in any classic rock lover's collection as it represents the band close to it's peak. This version of "Cricklewood Green" is obviously not from the "original master tape" as it's loaded with tape hiss. For slighly more money I would buy the U.K. remastered version. The difference is like night and day.

Alvin Lee at his best

Contains three classic TYA tunes- Love Like a Man, Working on the Road and my favorite- 50000 Miles Beneath My Brain. Buy this CD, along with Live at the Fillmore East and hear even better versions of these songs live.