Undead is the second album by Ten Years After

Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...

, recorded live at the small jazz club, Klooks Kleek

Klooks Kleek

Klooks Kleek was a jazz/R&B club in the 1960s, based in The Railway Hotel, West Hampstead , North West London, next to the Decca Records studio. The club was named after a 1956 album by Kenny Clarke .-History:...

, in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, May 1968. This album set out to give listeners a real feel to what it was like to hear Ten Years After. Their eponymous first album

Ten Years After (Ten Years After album)

Ten Years After is the debut album by the English rock/blues band Ten Years After. It features Spoonful, a cover that the more famous British blues rock group Cream also covered...

 was bluesy, but less emotional and passionate, and so the band decided to record the album live.
The result was a combination of blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, boogie

Boogie

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. The earliest recorded...

 and jazz playing that merged more traditional rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 with 1950's-style jump blues

Jump blues

Jump blues is an up-tempo blues usually played by small groups and featuring horns. It was very popular in the 1940s, and the movement was a precursor to the arrival of rhythm and blues and rock and roll...

. This album became the introduction that many aspiring musicians used as a learning tool to explore beyond rock and pop boundaries and into more improvised stylings.

Side one

1. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" (Alvin Lee)- 9:49
2. "Woodchopper's Ball" (Woody Herman
   Woody Herman
   Woodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...
   
   /Joe Bishop
   Joe Bishop
   Joe Bishop was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer.Bishop learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when young, and also played flugelhorn and mellophone. He attended Hendrix College, and played professionally with the Louisiana Ramblers in 1927, including in Mexico...
   
   )- 7:38

Side two

1. "Spider In My Web" (Alvin Lee)- 7:42
2. "Summertime
   Summertime (song)
   "Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP....
   
   " (George Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   )/ "Shantung Cabbage" (Ric Lee)- 5:44
3. "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee)- 6:24

2002 CD Re-release

1. "Rock Your Mama" - 3:46
2. "Spoonful
   Spoonful
   "Spoonful" is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. It is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton , itself related to "All I Want Is A Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan...
   
   " - 6:23
3. "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" - 9:49
4. "Summertime
   Summertime (song)
   "Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP....
   
   " / "Shantung Cabbage" - 5:44
5. "Spider In My Web" - 7:43
6. "(At the) Woodchopper's Ball" - 7:38
7. "Standing at the Crossroads
   Cross Road Blues
   "Cross Road Blues" is a song by Delta Blues singer Robert Johnson; released on a 78 rpm record in 1936 by Vocalion Records, catalogue 3519. The original version remained out of print after its initial release until the appearance of The Complete Recordings in 1990...
   
   " - 4:10
8. "I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes / Extension On One Chord / I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes" - 17:04
9. "I'm Going Home" - 6:24

Personnel

• Alvin Lee
  Alvin Lee
  Alvin Lee is an English rock guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, and with Leo Lyons formed the core of the band Ten Years After in 1960...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Chick Churchill
  Chick Churchill
  Chick Churchill is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band, Ten Years After.-Career:...
  
   - organ
• Ric Lee
  Ric Lee
  Ric Lee is the English drummer of the British late 1960s to 70s rock group, Ten Years After.-Biography:...
  
   - drums
• Leo Lyons
  Leo Lyons
  Leo Lyons is an English rock musician, who was also the bassist of the British late 1960s to 1970s rock group Ten Years After....
  
  - bass

Release history

Year	Type	Label	Country	Catalog #
1968	LP	DERAM	US, Canada	DES 18016
	LP	DERAM	Netherlands	9286 927
	LP	DECCA	Germany	6.21 585
	LP	DERAM	UK	SML 1023
2002	CD	DERAM	UK	8828992
	CD	DERAM	Germany	820 533-2
2009	CD	Universal Distribution		94203