Works Volume II
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Works Volume 2 is an album released in 1977 by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...

. Unlike Works Volume 1 (which consisted of three solo sides and one ensemble side), Volume 2 was a single album which seemingly was a compilation of leftover tracks from other album sessions that had not made those albums. While many derided the album for its apparent lack of focus, others felt it showed a different side of the band, with blues, bluegrass and jazz being very prominent as musical genres in this recording.

Album material

"When The Apple Blossoms Bloom...", "Tiger in a Spotlight" and "Brain Salad Surgery" had been recorded at the 1973 sessions for the album Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. It fuses rock and classical themes. Lyrics were co-written by Greg Lake with fellow ex-King Crimson member Peter Sinfield. Cover...

but did not appear on it - rather strangely in the case of the latter.

Volume 2 also included a stripped-down version of Greg Lake
Greg Lake
Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...

's "I Believe in Father Christmas
I Believe in Father Christmas
"I Believe In Father Christmas" is a song by Greg Lake , with lyrics by Peter Sinfield.Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song this was not Lake's intention...

". An orchestral version of the song had previously been released as a solo Lake single in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and became something of an annual Christmas
Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season, which tends to begin in the months leading up the actual holiday and end in the weeks shortly thereafter.-Early:...

 standard there.

Track listing

  1. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Keith Emerson
    Keith Emerson
    Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...

    , Greg Lake
    Greg Lake
    Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...

    , Carl Palmer
    Carl Palmer
    Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...

    , Peter Sinfield
    Peter Sinfield
    Peter John Sinfield is an English poet, lyricist and artist, most famously known as the lyricist and co-founding member of early incarnations of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King has been regarded as one of the most influential progressive rock albums ever...

    ) – 4:32
  2. "When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:56
  3. "Bullfrog" (Ron Aspery, Mick Hodgkinson, Palmer)– 3:49
  4. "Brain Salad Surgery" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 3:07
  5. "Barrelhouse Shake-Down" (Emerson) – 3:37
  6. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:54
  7. "So Far to Fall" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 4:55
  8. "Maple Leaf Rag
    Maple Leaf Rag
    The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King...

    " (Scott Joplin
    Scott Joplin
    Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...

    ) – 2:00
  9. "I Believe in Father Christmas
    I Believe in Father Christmas
    "I Believe In Father Christmas" is a song by Greg Lake , with lyrics by Peter Sinfield.Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song this was not Lake's intention...

    " (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:17
  10. "Close But Not Touching" (Palmer) – 3:18
  11. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis) – 3:09
  12. "Show Me the Way to Go Home
    Show Me the Way to Go Home
    "Show Me the Way to Go Home" is a folk song. It was made famous by its 1925 adaptation by the pseudonymous "Irving King" . The song was written on a railroad train journey from London by Campbell and Connelly. They were tired from the travelling and had a few alcoholic drinks during the journey,...

    " (L. James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:30

Bonus Tracks

  1. "Tiger in a Spotlight" - 4:16
  2. "Watching Over You" - 4:31
  3. "Show Me the Way To Go Home" - 5:34

Singles

  • Tiger in a Spotlight / So Far to Fall
  • Watching Over You / Hallowed Be Thy Name
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