Following Frampton's departure in 1971, the band would continue in the " boogie rock" vein until the remaining and replacement members disbanded in 1975.“ was the best vocalist that this country has ever produced.” David Bowie As a result, the album bolstered the group's reputation, despite its lack of availability, the record company's imminent collapse, and disappointing sales.Īfter this album, Humble Pie returned to what would become their trademark "heavy" sound, and concentrated their efforts on breaking into the US market. The LP was not released at all in the US at the time, even though the band was currently on their first American tour, but it still managed to garner favorable attention on underground FM radio stations. With no budget to promote it, the album quickly sank without a trace. Immediate Records rush-released the album into UK record shops in November 1969, hoping it would enter the charts before the company went bankrupt. While the band toured for the last half of the year to hone their onstage skills and generate interest with the record-buying public, their record label Immediate Records was on the verge of financial collapse. Most, if not all, of the material on the album dated back to recordings in the spring and early summer of 1969, when the band recorded as much as three albums' worth of material (the remaining recordings were eventually compiled and released in 1999 on the bands' The Immediate Years: Natural Born Boogie collection). Johns was the younger brother of producer Glyn Johns, who himself had a previous association with Marriott. The album was produced by Andy Johns at Olympic Studios. The album also included a cover of the Buddy Holly song " Heartbeat". Frampton's compositions "Take Me Back", "Only You Can See" and "Home and Away" (a nominal co-write with Marriott and Ridley) nod toward the direction he would take in his later solo career. Bassist Greg Ridley contributed guitar and tambourine, while Jerry Shirley handled his drum kit, a percussion saw on the first track, as well as tambourine, tablas, maracas, and Wurlitzer piano on his own composition "Cold Lady".Īmong the Marriott-composed tracks were his country-rock compositions "Every Mother's Son", "The Sad Bag Of Shakey Jake" and "Down Home Again". Peter Frampton played acoustic, Spanish, and lead guitars, and Steve Marriott played guitar, sitar, percussion and keyboards, and bass guitar. Unlike the debut LP, all four members of the band contributed solo compositions to the album. Like the band's early live shows, which opened with an acoustic set before returning with electric guitars in the second half of the show, Town and Country displayed a mix of acoustic ballads, country-rock, folk, blues, and hard rock. Town and Country was Humble Pie's second studio album, released in November 1969 in the UK only.Ĭonceived at Steve Marriott's 16th-century rural cottage "Arkesden" in Moreton, Essex, England, Town and Country offered a more pastoral approach than the more straightforward "heavy" progressive sound prevalent on their debut album, which had been released two months earlier.
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