Truth (album)

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Truth
Jeff Beck's studio album

Publication
(s)

1968

Label (s) Columbia Graphophone Company , Epic Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Blues rock

Title (number)

10

running time

40:16

production

Mickie Most

Studio (s)

Abbey Road Studios

chronology
- Truth Beck-Ola
(1969)

Truth is British guitarist Jeff Beck's debut album . It was released in 1968 by the Columbia Graphophone Company and in the USA by Epic Records . The formation that made the sound recordings also became known as the Jeff Beck Group . As a result, Truth is often viewed as the group's debut album, although only Jeff Beck is mentioned by name on the cover or record as the artist.

background

After Beck left the Yardbirds during a tour of the USA in the fall of 1966 and Jimmy Page, who remained as the second lead guitarist , had formed The New Yardbirds , from which Led Zeppelin was to emerge, Beck took the singles Hi Ho Silver Lining under his own name , Tallyman and Love Is Blue . The latter was an instrumental version of the song, with the Vicky Leandros at 1967 Euro Vision Song Contest finished fourth. Beck himself took on the vocal parts on the other two releases. The producer Mickie Most urged Beck to take on this role for the upcoming debut album, but Beck was unwilling to continue as a singer and guitarist. Therefore he formed a quartet with Rod Stewart as singer, Ronnie Wood on bass and Micky Waller on drums, which also became known as the Jeff Beck Group . This band recorded the album Truth in May 1968 at Abbey Road Studios in London , which includes new recordings of blues classics and a song by the Yardbirds as well as three songs written by Jeffrey Rod, a pseudonym used by Beck and Stewart for songwriting collaborations . According to Most, the recordings only lasted four to five days. On the back of the cover were liner notes by Jeff Beck, in which he briefly commented on each song.

On Truth both guest posts later Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones as well as Who -Schlagzeuger Keith Moon included. The CD re-release from 2005 contains the A and B sides of all three previous Beck singles and two alternative mixes as bonus tracks.

Track list

Original UK publication from 1968

page 1

  1. Shapes of Things ( Jim McCarty , Keith Relf , Paul Samwell-Smith) - 3:22
  2. Let Me Love You (Jeffrey Rod) - 4:44
  3. Morning Dew ( Bonnie Dobson ) - 4:40
  4. You Shook Me ( Willie Dixon , JB Lenoir ) - 2:33
  5. Ol 'Man River ( Jerome David Kern , Oscar Hammerstein ) - 4:01

Page 2

  1. Greensleeves (Traditional) - 1:50
  2. Rock My Plimsoul (Jeffrey Rod) - 4:13
  3. Beck's Bolero (Jimmy Page) - 2:54
  4. Blues Deluxe (Jeffrey Rod) - 7:33
  5. I Ain't Superstitious (Willie Dixon) - 4:53
Bonus tracks from the remastered CD re-release from 2005
  2. I've been drinking (stereo mix) (Jeffrey Rod) - 3:25
  3. You Shook Me (take 1) - 2:31
  4. Rock My Plimsoul (stereo mix) - 3:42
  5. (Beck's) Bolero (mono single version with backwards guitar) - 3:11
  6. Blues De Luxe (take 1) - 7:31
  7. Tallyman ( Graham Gouldman ) - 2:46
  8. Love is Blue (André Popp, Pierre Cour, Brian Blackburn) - 2:57
  9. Hi Ho Silver Lining (Stereo Mix) (Scott English, Laurence Weiss) - 3:46

occupation

tape
Additional contributions
  • Madeline Bell - Backing Vocals on I've Been Drinking
  • John Carter and Ken Lewis - backing vocals on Tallyman
  • Clem Cattini - drums on Hi Ho Silver Lining
  • Aynsley Dunbar - drums on Tallyman and Rock my plimsoul (stereo mix)
  • Nicky Hopkins - piano on Morning Dew , You Shook Me , Beck's Bolero and Blues Deluxe
  • John Paul Jones - bass on Hi Ho Silver Lining and Beck's Bolero , Hammond organ on Ol 'Man River and You Shook Me , string arrangement on Hi Ho Silver Lining
  • Keith Moon - drums on Beck's Bolero , timpani on Ol 'Man River; not mentioned by name in the credits, but as " You Know Who" named
  • Jimmy Page - twelve-string electric guitar on Beck's Bolero (mono single version with backwards guitar) and Ol 'Man River
production

Chart successes

Truth reached number 15 on the Billboard 200 but missed the UK hit list. The album was awarded gold by the RIAA in June 2000 .

reception

  • In September 1968, Al Kooper wrote in Rolling Stone that Truth was a classic and probably the current counterpart to the album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton , which introduced two good blues musicians to the American audience. He highlighted the singing of Rod Stewart as "just great" and felt reminded in parts of Beck of Jimi Hendrix .
  • Bruce Eder wrote on Allmusic that Truth was just as groundbreaking and influential as the debut album of the Beatles , Rolling Stones or Who . Eder described Stewart's extraordinary vocals, praised the rhythm section from Wood and Waller, and said Beck's guitar was "glowing" and that his amplifier was about to short-circuit. Commercially, too, the album, at number 15 in the American charts, was a triumph and a very extraordinary success for a band that had been completely unknown six months earlier. In the evaluation, Truth got five stars out of five.
  • On rezensator.de it was said that Beck had created a classic of rock music with Truth and the musical performance was extraordinary. Stewart's singing was also highlighted. The assessment of the recording as one of the first heavy metal albums was discussed, but this assessment was not shared due to the blues influence. Truth is a milestone and received seven stars out of ten.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the various editions of the album at discogs.com
  2. ↑ Photos of the original UK edition under "more images" at discogs.com
  3. ↑ Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: The Death of a Musical Revolution at seattlepi.com
  4. ↑ Liner Notes by John Tobler, CD booklet in Truth & Beck-Ola compilation
  5. ↑ Jeffrey Rod at discogs.com
  6. ↑ 45 Years Ago: The Jeff Beck Groups Truth Album Released at ultimateclassicrock.com
  7. ↑ Remastered CD version from 2005
  8. ↑ Chart placement at allmusic.com
  9. ^ Placements by Jeff Beck at chartarchive.org
  10. ↑ Chart placements at tsort.info
  11. ^ Review at rollingstone.com
  12. ↑ album at allmusic.com
  13. ↑ Review at rezensator.de