Humble Pie - Smokin' [1972] [FLAC]-[WH]-FLAWL3SS

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Humble Pie - Smokin'

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Artist...............: Humble Pie

Album................: Smokin'

Genre................: Rock

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1972

Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) / Level 8 & TSSTcorp CDDVD SE-S204N

Codec................: (FLAC)

Version..............: 1.2.1

Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 98 %)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

Tags.................: VorbisComment

Information..........: Good time 70's Boogie-Rock



Ripped by............: FLAWL3SS on 8/20/2008

Posted by............: FLAWL3SS on 8/21/2008

News Server..........: None

News Group(s)........: None



Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

Covers...............: Front Back



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:03:22) Humble Pie - Hot 'n' Nasty

2. (00:05:02) Humble Pie - The Fixer

3. (00:03:51) Humble Pie - You're So Good for Me

4. (00:05:13) Humble Pie - C'mon Everybody

5. (00:04:01) Humble Pie - Old Time Feelin'

6. (00:03:57) Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole

7. (00:03:44) Humble Pie - Road Runner: Road Runners 'G' Jam

8. (00:08:53) Humble Pie - I Wonder

9. (00:05:49) Humble Pie - Sweet Peace and Time



Playing Time.........: 00:46:20

Total Size...........: 261.24 MB



NFO generated on.....: 8/21/2008 10:57:02 AM





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Smokin is the 1972 blues-rock album released by the English group Humble

Pie. The album peaked at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, and hit

the UK Top 30.



This was Humble Pie's first post-Peter Frampton album. Co-founder and blues

shouter 'par excellence' Steve Marriott was thoroughly in charge here, and

the result was the band's best-selling album. The idiom is basic, straight-

ahead, blues-rock, with occasional forays into Led Zeppelin-style riffage.



Highlights include dramatically slowed down versions of Eddie Cohran's "C'mon

Everybody", Junior Walker's "Road Runner", and the wah-wah laden slow

blues "The Fixer". "You're So Good for Me", which begins as a delicate

acoustic number, ultimately mutates into a full-bore gospel music rave-up, an

element that would later influence bands like The Black Crowes.



Alexis Korner guests on the track "Old Time Feelin'", Marriott's vocals take a

back seat on this number as the main vocals are provided by Greg Ridley and

Korner who also plays a Martin Tipple, mandolin-type guitar, the sound is

reminiscent of their song "Alabama '69" appearing on their first album.



Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills & Nash guests on "Road Runner 'G' Jam" (the

title is a nod to the band's habit of developing songs out of jam sessions),

playing some incredible Hammond organ fills and his backing vocals were

over-dubbed on "Hot 'n' Nasty" a slow-burning and then dynamic R&B song,

after he strolled in after recording his own sessions next door.



Marriott insisted on producing the album himself, he wanted to face the

challenge of running a compact R&B sound to the rules of a high-tech 24-

track mixing board. Marriott collapsed with exhaustion in February. New

Musical Express (NME) reported at the time, "Following intense recording

sessions with Humble Pie, Steve Marriott collapsed with nervous exhaustion

and doctors told him to rest".



With this album group arguably defined themselves as the undisputed leaders

of the boogie movement in the early 1970s.

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