Smokin' (Humble Pie album)

Smokin'
Studio album by Humble Pie
Released March 1972
Recorded February 1972 at Olympic Studios
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length 43:30
Label A&M
Producer Steve Marriott
Humble Pie chronology
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore
(1971)		 Smokin'
(1972)		 Eat It
(1973)
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Smokin' is the fifth studio album by the English group Humble Pie, released in 1972. The album peaked at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart,[1] and hit the UK Top 30.

Background

The album was Humble Pie's first following the departure of guitarist Peter Frampton, which placed singer and co-founder Steve Marriott as the band's de facto leader. Smokin' is the band's best-selling album, due in large part to the success of the single "30 Days in the Hole".

Smokin' includes dramatically slowed down versions of Eddie Cochran's "C'mon Everybody", Junior Walker's "Road Runner", and the wah-wah laden slow blues "I Wonder". "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 as the main vocals are provided by Greg Ridley and Korner who also plays a Martin Tipple, mandolin-type guitar. Its sound is reminiscent of the song "Alabama '69" on their first album.

Stephen Stills guests on "Road Runner 'G' Jam" (the title is a nod to the band's habit of developing songs out of jam sessions), playing Hammond organ, 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.[2]

Marriott insisted on producing the album himself for the challenge of creating a compact R&B sound with 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".[3]

With this album the group were seen as leaders of the boogie movement in the early 1970s.[4]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Hot 'n' Nasty" (music-Humble Pie/lyrics-Marriott) – 3:20
  2. "The Fixer" (music-Humble Pie/lyrics-Marriott) – 5:02
  3. "You're So Good for Me" (Marriott, Ridley) – 3:49
  4. "C'mon Everybody" (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) – 5:12
  5. "Old Time Feelin'" (traditional, arranged & lyrics - Marriott) – 4:00

Side Two

  1. "30 Days in the Hole" (Marriott) – 3:57
  2. "(I'm A) Road Runner" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) B) "Road Runner's 'G' Jam" (Clem Clempson, Steve Marriott, Jerry Shirley, Greg Ridley) – 3:41
  3. "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant, Raymond Leveen) – 8:53
  4. "Sweet Peace and Time" (music-Humble Pie/lyrics-Marriott) – 5:49

Personnel

Other releases

Notes

  1. ↑ US Billboard Chart No. 6
  2. ↑ Twelker, Uli; Schmitt, Roland. The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories). Sanctuary. pp. 90–91. ISBN 1-86074-392-7.
  3. ↑ The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories). pp. 89–90.
  4. ↑ "Humble Pie, Smokin'". allmusic. Retrieved 2007-08-10.

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