Jeff Beck Group – Beck-Ola (2025 Remaster) LP Coloured Vinyl

The Jeff Beck Group – Beck-Ola (2025 Remaster) 

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His guitar playing is as fiery as ever - even on tracks like "Spanish Boots", where the backing band is unable to maintain a groove. The highlight of the album is "Plynth (Water Down The Drain)", a strangely unresolved blues-metal riff-a-thon that recalls the heavy rhythm playing of the Stones in this era. Nicky Hopkins plays keyboards throughout the record and even contributes an almost solo instrumental ("Girl From Mill Valley").

Album no. 2, entitled "Beck-Ola", followed on seamlessly one year after "Truth". Here, the quintet transforms rock'n'roll classics such as "All Shook Up" and "Jailhouse Rock" into heavy-blooded groove numbers, sweeps hard rocking through their own pieces such as "Plynth" or "Spanish Boots" and offers the ballad-like instrumental "Girl From Mill Valley" as a floating point of calm.

Beck-Ola is Beck's second album and the first of the Jeff Beck Group. It was released in 1969 and reached the top 15 of the Billboard 200 in the USA and the top 40 of the British album charts. Beck had deliberately changed the band's personnel in order to take it in an even harder rock direction than Truth. This album once again featured Wood and Stewart, but it was to be their last album with the Jeff Beck Group.

Tracklist:
1. All Shook Up
2. Spanish Boots
3. Girl From Mill Valley
4. Jailhouse Rock
5. Plynth (Water Down the Drain)
6. The Hangman's Knee
7. Rice Pudding

Label: Parlophone
Released: 1969/2025