
Stonedhenge
Sign in to saveStonedhenge is the second studio album, and third album overall, by English blues rock band Ten Years After, released in February 1969 by Deram Records. It was recorded with producer Mike Vernon at London's Decca Studios in September 1968.
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Stonedhenge
- Album.type
- Album
- Album.artist
- Ten Years After
- Album.cover
- Stonedhenge - Ten Years After.jpg
- Album.released
- February 1969
- Album.recorded
- 3–15 September 1968
- Album.studio
- Decca, West Hampstead, London
- Album.genre
- Psychedelic blues jazz-rock boogie rock progressive blues experimental
- Album.length
- 35:48
- Album.label
- Deram
- Album.producer
- Mike Vernon
- Album.prev_title
- Undead
- Album.prev_year
- 1968
- Album.next_title
- Ssssh
- Album.next_year
- 1969
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- publication date
- 1969-00-00
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14 sectionsContents
- Background and recording
- Composition
- Title and artwork
- Release and promotion
- Critical reception
- Contemporary reviews
- Retrospective appraisal
- Legacy and reissues
- Track listing
- 2002 CD bonus tracks
- Personnel
- Charts
- References
- External links
Stonedhenge is the second studio album, and third album overall, by English blues rock band Ten Years After, released in February 1969 by Deram Records. It was recorded with producer Mike Vernon at London's Decca Studios in September 1968.
Believing that the group's live album Undead (1968) had already perfectly captured their talents, frontman and guitarist Alvin Lee conceived Stonedhenge as a change in direction. A psychedelic blues album, it expands the group's boogie rock sound into more experimental territory, incorporating jazz, progressive pop and musique concrète styles, with deployment of studio effects, stereo panning and tape manipulation. Influences on the recording included Tod Dockstader and Canned Heat. Although largely written by Lee, the record also feature solo pieces from all four band members. The title alludes to marijuana and the ancient monument Stonehenge, the latter of which is illustrated on the psychedelic album cover.