Rock On (Humble Pie album)

Infobox Album | Name = Rock On
Type = studio
Artist = Humble Pie


Released = 1971
Recorded = Olympic Studios, London, January, 1971
Genre = Hard rock Blues-rock
Length = 38:43
Label = A&M
Producer = Glyn Johns & Humble Pie
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kx1ibkk96akc link]
Last album = "Humble Pie" (1970)
This album = "Rock On" (1971)
Next album = "Performance Rockin' the Fillmore" (1971)

"Rock On" is a 1971 album released by the English rock group Humble Pie. It reached #118 on the Billboard 200.

Album profile

This is the final studio album to feature guitarist and vocalist Peter Frampton, "Rock On" saw Humble Pie establishing the heavy blues/rock sound they became famous for, led in no small part by their new manager, American, Dee Anthony after the collapse of Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records. But this was not where Frampton wanted to be and within a year he had quit the group to pursue his solo career and take his music in a more acoustic direction.

"Rock On" cut its teeth live before it was recorded, with the band just finishing an American tour. Marriott considered the album like a studio party featuring numerous guest performers from the world of blues and soul. Distinguished performers such as PP Arnold, who Marriott knew very well from his Small Faces days, Doris Troy who had a U.S. hit in the early 1960s with her own self-composed song "Just One Look" (later covered by The Hollies), and Claudia Lennear (who had sung backing for artists such as Joe Cocker, Freddie King and Gene Clark), were featured on this album.

The album features the classic rock song "Stone Cold Fever" written by band members Marriott, Ridley, Frampton and Shirley. [ [http://www.rhapsody.com/humblepie/rockon/stonecoldfever/lyrics.html Free Music and Lyrics to the song Stone Cold Fever by Humble Pie - Rhapsody Online ] ] Steve Marriott's ballad "A Song For Jenny" (written for first wife Jenny Rylance) features The Soul Sisters (Doris Troy, P.P. Arnold and Claudia Lennear) on backing vocals. B.J. Cole contributes pedal steel guitar."Strange Days" is a ballsy blues rock song, as Marriott's powerful vocals soar the closest to a live performance that any on this album reach, it is also the longest song on the album too, the vocals having a delayed echo making it all the more out there yet grounded especially Frampton's guitar solos that weave throughout. "Sour Grain" was a joint composition by Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott, which keeps the same tempo as "Shine On", but with just Steve on vocals. [cite book
last = Twelker
first = Uli
last2 = Schmitt
first2 = Roland
title = Small Faces & Other Stories
publisher = Sanctuary (Second Edition)
isbn = 1-86074-392-7
pages = pp.80-81 ]

Track listing

# "Shine On" - (Frampton) – 3:00
# "Sour Grain" - (Frampton/Marriott) – 2:40
# "79th and Sunset" - (Marriott) – 3:01
# "Stone Cold Fever" - (Ridley-Marriott-Shirley-Frampton) – 4:09
# "Rollin' Stone" - (Muddy Waters) – 5:59
# "A Song for Jenny" - (Marriott) – 2:35
# "The Light" - (Frampton) – 3:15
# "Big George" - (Ridley) – 4:08
# "Strange Days" - (Humble Pie), (words-Marriott) – 6:36
# "Red Neck Jump" - (Marriott) – 3:06

Album credits

*Steve Marriott - guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica
*Peter Frampton - guitar, vocals
*Greg Ridley - bass guitar, backing vocals
*Jerry Shirley - drums
*B.J. Cole - pedal steel guitar
*P.P. Arnold - backing vocals
*Claudia Lennear - backing vocals
*Doris Troy - backing vocals
*Bobby Keyes - saxophone
*Glyn Johns/Humble Pie - producer, engineer, mixing
*John Kelly - Album cover design and photography

References

External links

* [http://humble-pie.net/rockon/pie2/html/humble_pie.html/ Humble Pie history and biographies]
* [http://www.stevemarriott.co.uk/ The Official Steve Marriott website]