Truth (album)

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Truth
Studio album by The Jeff Beck Group as just Jeff Beck
Released	August 1968
Genre	Blues-rock Heavy metal
Length	40:16
Label	Epic
Producer	Mickie Most
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (Very Favorable) link
The Jeff Beck Group as just Jeff Beck chronology
Truth (1968) Beck-Ola (1969)

Truth (1968) was the first full-length album by Jeff Beck and his backing group. The album featured three original songwriting collaborations between Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, "Let Me Love You", "Blues Deluxe", and "Rock My Plimsoul". Highlighted by a re-recording of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things", Willie Dixon's "I Ain't Superstitious" and the traditional "Greensleeves", it is considered by many to be one of the first heavy metal albums. Tom Scholz of Boston has listed Truth as his favorite album of all time. Scholz said: "I knew Jeff Beck's Truth album inside and out." Both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones played on "Beck's Bolero", originally recorded in 1966 with Keith Moon on drums and Nicky Hopkins on piano, and released as the B side to Beck's first solo release, "Hi Ho Silver Lining" in 1967.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Shapes of Things" 3:22 (Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith)
2. "Let Me Love You" 4:44 (Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart)
3. "Morning Dew" 4:40 (Bonnie Dobson and Tim Rose)
4. "You Shook Me" 2:33 (Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir)
5. "Ol' Man River" 4:01 (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein)
6. "Greensleeves" 1:50 (Traditional, arranged by Jeff Beck)
7. "Rock My Plimsoul" 4:13 (Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart)
8. "Beck's Bolero" 2:54 (Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck)
9. "Blues De Luxe" 7:33 (Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart)
10. "I Ain't Superstitious" 4:53 (Willie Dixon)

[edit] Group members and other participants

• Jeff Beck- guitars, vocals, arranger; bass on "Ol' Man River"
• Rod Stewart- vocals (except on "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Micky Waller- drums (except on "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Ronnie Wood- bass (except on "Ol' Man River", "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Nicky Hopkins- piano on "Morning Dew", "You Shook Me", "Beck's Bolero" and "Blues Deluxe"
• Keith Moon- drums on "Beck's Bolero", tympani on "Ol' Man River" (credited for the latter as "You Know Who")
• Jimmy Page- 12-string rhythm guitar on "Beck's Bolero"
• John Paul Jones- bass on "Beck's Bolero" and Hammond Organ on "Ol' Man River" and "You Shook Me"
• Mickie Most- producer
• Ken Scott- engineer

v • d • e The Jeff Beck Group Jeff Beck • Rod Stewart • Ronnie Wood • Aynsley Dunbar Micky Waller • Nicky Hopkins • Tony Newman • Bob Tench • Max Middleton • Clive Chaman • Cozy Powell Studio albums Truth • Beck-Ola (Cosa Nostra) • Rough and Ready • Jeff Beck Group Songs "Beck's Bolero" • "You Shook Me" • "Shapes of Things" • "Barabajagal" (with Donovan) Related articles The Yardbirds • Faces • Beck, Bogert & Appice • The Rolling Stones