Eat It (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Eat It
Type = album
Artist = Humble Pie


Released = 1973
Recorded = Steve Marriott's clear sounds home studio, (Essex)
Green’s Playhouse, Glasgow (side 4)
Genre = R&B
Blues Rock
Length =
Label = A&M
Producer = Steve Marriott
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfexql5ld6e link]
Last album = "Lost and Found"
(1973)
This album = "Eat It"
(1973)
Next album = "Thunderbox" (1974)

"Eat It" was the 1973 double album released by English rock group Humble Pie. It reached #13 on the Billboard 200, and #34 in the UK.

Album profile

The album title "Eat It" means 'dig it'. Each side of this double album is different: Side 1 features Steve Marriott penned rock and roll; Side 2 has classic R&B covers; Side 3 is a collection of acoustic Steve Marriott songs; finally Side 4 features Humble Pie live in concert. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:hxfexql5ld6e allmusic ((( Eat It > Overview ))) ] ]

This album showcases the dynamic diversity and talent of Steve Marriott's gritty bluesy vocals with some funky soul mixed in throughout along with straight ahead blistering rockers. The band is right on and they deliver an extremely energetic powerhouse combination on this double album that overall ranks with their best along with "Smokin'" and "Rockin' The Fillmore".

"Eat It" was the band's seventh official album release and their fifth for A&M Records.

Steve Marriott produced this album and it was the first album recorded in Marriott's newly-built home recording studio he titled Clear Sounds, in a converted barn at Beehive Cottage, Moreton, Essex. [

cite book
last = Twelker
first = Uli
last2 = Schmitt
first2 = Roland
title = The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories)
publisher = Sanctuary
isbn = 1-86074-392-7
pages = pp.94-95 ]

"Get Down to It" was featured in the 2004 video game "".

Track listing

ide one

#"Get Down to It" (Marriott) – 3:27
#"Good Booze and Bad Women" (Marriott) – 3:18
#"Is It for Love?" (Marriott) – 4:41
#"Drugstore Cowboy" (Marriott) – 5:40

ide two

#"Black Coffee" (Ike Turner, Tina Turner) – 3:11
#"I Believe to My Soul" (Ray Charles) – 4:05
#"Shut up and Don't Interrupt Me" (Bristo, Starr) – 3:07
#"That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 3:49

ide three

#"Say No More" (Marriott) – 2:01
#"Oh, Bella" (All That's Hers) (Marriott) – 3:28
#"Summer Song" (Marriott) – 2:48
#"Beckton Dumps" (Marriott) – 3:16

ide four

# "Up Our Sleeve" (Humble Pie-lyrics by Steve Marriott) – 5:02
#"Honky Tonk Women" (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) – 3:58
#"(I'm A) Road Runner" (Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) – 13:29

* Album cover designed by Kosh ["Album art designed by John Kosh" Retrieved 17/09/07 [http://www.fye.com/Eat-It-Front-Page_stcVVproductId2385135VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm] ]

Releases

*1973 LP A&M Cat.#3701
*1973 LP A&M Cat.#3701 (2)
*1999 CD Import Cat.#10593
*1973 A&M Cat.#1889
*2006 CD Universal Cat.#6231 Japan
*2007 CD Universal Cat.#93223
*2007 CD Universal Cat.#93223 Japan

Notes

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsMKvkzdwc You Tube: Humble Pie perform "Black Coffee"]