Ten Years After: Watt (180g) auf LP

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Watt is the fifth album by the English blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1970.

It was recorded in September 1970 except for the last track, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen", which is a recording from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

The album features Alvin Lee on guitar & vocals, Leo Lyons on bass, Ric Lee on drums and Chick Churchill hammers the organ.

Superb tracks on the album are the catchy "I Say Yeah" and the laid back "My Baby Left Me".

Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart.

In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man".

Watt charted at no. 21 on the Billboard 200 and no. 5 in the UK Charts.

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»Doch Ten Years After servierten auch auf dem meist unterschätzten ›WATT‹ leistungsstarken Blues-Rock, den sie in ›The Band With No Name‹ mal cool aufl ockerten, mal in ›She Lies In The Morning‹ poppig arondierten und mit Studiogimmicks aufmotzten.« (Good Times, Februar / März 2015)