Humble Pie - Town And Country

Humble Pie — Town And Country

Restored and remastered second album on vinyl LP!

Illustrated sleeve notes

Currated by Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley

1969 rarity finally remastered! Humble Pie's critically acclaimed second album Town And Country was all set to launch the band into superstardom when their label Immediate Records suddenly collapsed, taking the LP out of U.K. record shops just four months after going on sale. In the U.S.A., the LP was not even released. Town And Country was released barely three months after As Safe As Yesterday Is to capitalise on the debut LP's Top 30 success, a No. 4 hit single and huge media coverage by journalists fascinated by the new "supergroup" formed by Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Jerry Shirley and Greg Ridley.

But the real reason for Immediate putting the new LP out so soon was the label's cash flow problems. New product meant much-needed income while Humble Pie wowed crowds on a two-month U.S. tour. Luckily, the band had recorded over two albums worth of material, enabling Town And Country to be rush-released on November 7, 1969. The music press welcomed the LP as "an unqualified success!" and praised it's more personal, striped-back sound. While success was cruelly halted (albeit temporally) in America and the U.K. as Immediate fell into liquidation, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, best-selling and hardest-rocking bands of the 1970s with new label A&M.

The newly mastered LP sounds incredible and reproduces the original Hipgnosis designed sleeve and rare inner lyric bag plus adds a fully illustrated 4-panel insert. EXCLUSIVELY RELEASED on Kenney Jones' Nice Records, a new reissue label set up by artists for artists.

 

Side A

1. Take Me Back

2. The Sad Bag Of Shaky Jake

3. The Light Of Love

4. Cold Lady

5. Down Home Again

6. Ollie Ollie

Side B

1. Every Mothers Son

2. Heartbeat

3. Only You Can See

4. Silver Tongue

5. Home And Away

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