SKIN ALLEY To Pagham And Beyond LP CBS 1970 HOLLAND orig+stereo+foc S 64140
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SKIN ALLEY
GILES POPE, THOMAS CRIMBLE*, KRZYSZTOF JUSKIEWICZ, BOB JAMES or NICK GRAHAM* Formed in the late '60s, they made inroads quickly and found themselves signed to CBS for their self-titled debut in 1969. That album, and its 1970 follow-up, To Pagham & Beyond, saw the band in top prog form -- a pastiche of folk, jazz, and rock that, although well traveled by this time, managed to delight more than a few critics with its freshness and vitality. Crimble and Pope moved on later that year and were replaced by Nick Graham (formerly of Atomic Rooster) and Tony Knight (ex-Bronx Cheer), respectively"TO PAGHAM AND BEYOND"
1970 LP CBS RECORDS S 64140 STEREO
MADE IN HOLLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
FULLY LAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
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LABEL: CBS - ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: S 64140
Catalog on labels: S 64140 (S 64140-1 / S 64140-2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): S 64140-1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): S 64140-2
On labels: STEREO ? 1970
top rim text reads "All rights......prohibited"
bottom rim text reads 'Made in Holland"
Rights Society / Publishing: GEMA, BIEM
On Inside Sleeve: Producer: Fritz Fryer
Vocals on "Walking In The Park" and "Sweaty Betty" are by Nick Graham
who replaced Thomas Crimble in the band in August 1970
Clearwater Productions
On Back Sleeve: CBS is a Trademark of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc.
NL Printed in Holland
tracklisting
Side 1: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER'S DAUGHTER - WALKING IN THE PARK
Side 2: THE QUEEN OF BAD - SWEATY BETTY - EASY TO LIE
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RECORD VG+ but (please, read also the above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Skin Alley boldly announced their arrival with their eponymous debut in March 1970.
Three months after it hit the shops, the group was back in the studio working on its follow-up.
It was at this point that bandmember Thomas Crimble departed for Hawkwind, with ex-Atomic Rooster
bassist/flutist Nick Graham taking his place. This shake-up in the lineup led to an equally momentous
shift in sound, as the new-look band now moved toward a more improvisational style.
Still, their influences hadn't changed, and their love of American blues was if anything even more evident
on their second album, To Pagham & Beyond, than their first. The point was driven home
on the opening track, "Big Brother Is Watching You," with its focus on the riff and wailing harmonica.
This was a blues that fed into R&B and then rock & roll; "Easy to Lie," in contrast, exquisitely
illustrated the links between the blues and jazz, the stripped-back blues suddenly exploding
into inspired improvised jazz passages before fading back into minimalistic blues.
"Sweaty Betty" takes the opposite approach, its pure jazz agilely slipping into revved-up
R&B-flavored rock. As for R&B itself, "Walking in the Park" is not just a tribute to Stax,
but a perfect rendition of its style, and explains just how the band landed on that label later
in its career (the first white group to garner such an honor). Yet this was only one
of Alley's angles; elsewhere in the set they travel into Canterbury territory, albeit in a tough fashion
far removed from that scene's comparatively laid-back sound...(AllMusic)
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