Smokin' (Humble Pie album)

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Smokin'
Smokin' cover
Studio album by Humble Pie
Released 1972
Recorded 1972
Genre Hard Rock
Blues Rock
Length 43:30
Label A&M
Producer Steve Marriott
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars link
Humble Pie chronology
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore
(1971)		 Smokin'
(1972)		 Lost and Found
(1973)

Smokin is the 1972 blues-rock album released by the English group Humble Pie. The album peaked at #6 in the billboard 200 chart [1], and hit the UK Top 30.

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[edit] Album profile

This was Humble Pie's first post-Peter Frampton album. Co-founder and blues shouter 'par excellence' Steve Marriott was thoroughly in charge here, and the result was the band's best-selling album. The idiom is basic, straight-ahead, blues-rock, with occasional forays into Led Zeppelin-style riffage.

Highlights include dramatically slowed down versions of Eddie Cohran's "C'mon Everybody", Junior Walker's "Road Runner", and the wah-wah laden slow blues "The Fixer". "You're So Good for Me", which begins as a delicate acoustic number, ultimately mutates into a full-bore gospel music rave-up, an element that would later influence bands like The Black Crowes.

Alexis Korner guests on the track "Old Time Feelin'", Marriott's vocals take a back seat on this number as the main vocals are provided by Greg Ridley and Korner who also plays a Martin Tipple, mandolin-type guitar, the sound is reminiscent of their song "Alabama '69" appearing on their first album.

Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills & Nash guests on "Road Runner 'G' Jam" (the title is a nod to the band's habit of developing songs out of jam sessions), playing some incredible Hammond organ fills and his backing vocals were over-dubbed on "Hot 'n' Nasty" a slow-burning and then dynamic R&B song, after he strolled in after recording his own sessions next door.[2]

Marriott insisted on producing the album himself, he wanted to face the challenge of running a compact R&B sound to the rules of a high-tech 24-track mixing board. Marriott collapsed with exhaustion in February. New Musical Express (NME) reported at the time, "Following intense recording sessions with Humble Pie, Steve Marriott collapsed with nervous exhaustion and doctors told him to rest".[3]

With this album group arguably defined themselves as the undisputed leaders of the boogie movement in the early 1970s.[4]

[edit] Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hot 'n' Nasty" (Humble Pie/Marriott) – 3:20
  2. "The Fixer" (Humble Pie/Marriott) – 5:02
  3. "You're So Good for Me" (Marriott/Ridley) – 3:49
  4. "C'mon Everybody" (Capehart/Cochran) – 5:12
  5. "Old Time Feelin'" (traditional) – 3:59

Side Two

  1. "30 Days in the Hole" (Marriott) – 3:57
  2. "A) "Road Runner" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) B) "Road Runner's 'G' Jam" (Humble Pie) – 3:41
  3. "I Wonder" (Gant/Leveen) – 8:53
  4. "Sweet Peace and Time" (Marriott/Ridley/Shirley) – 5:49

[edit] Album credits

[edit] Other releases

  • 1990 CD A&M
  • 1972 LP A&M
  • 1990 CS A&M
  • 2007 CD Universal
  • 1995 CD Universal/A&M
  • 2007 CD Universal Japan

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ US Billboard Chart No. 6 [1]
  2. ^ Twelker, Uli. The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories). Sanctuary, pp.90-91. ISBN 1-86074-392-7. 
  3. ^ The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories), pp.89-90. 
  4. ^ Humble Pie, Smokin'. allmusic. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.

[edit] External links

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Humble Pie
Steve Marriott • Peter Frampton • Clem Clempson • Greg Ridley • Jerry Shirley
Studio albums
Live albums
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore• King Biscuit (live 1973) • Live At The Whiskey A-Go-Go '69
Compilations
Best of Humble Pie • Classics Volume 14 • Early Years) • Hot n' Nasty: The Anthology • The Scrubbers Sessions Archive • The Immediate Years: Natural Born Boogie • Running With The Pack • Natural Born Boogie: The BBC Sessions • Extended Versions • Twentieth Century Masters: The Millennium Collection • Back On Track • The Atlanta Years • Definitive Collection (Best Of)
Singles
"Natural Born Bugie" • "The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake" • "Big Black Dog" • "Shine On" • "I Don't Need No Doctor" • "Hot n' Nasty" • "30 Days in the Hole" • "Get Down To It" • "Shut Up And Don't Interrupt Me" • "Black Coffee" • "Oh La De Da" • "Ninety-Nine Pounds" • "Rock 'n' Roll Music"
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