Eat It

Eat It
Studio album by Humble Pie
Released	April 1973
Recorded	Steve Marriott's clear sounds home studio, (Essex) Green’s Playhouse, Glasgow (side 4)
Genre	R&B Blues Rock
Label	A&M
Producer	Steve Marriott
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Humble Pie chronology
Lost and Found (1973) Eat It (1973) Thunderbox (1974)

Eat It was the 1973 double album released by English rock group Humble Pie. It reached #13 on the Billboard 200, and #34 in the UK.

Album profile

The album title Eat It means 'dig it'. Each side of this double album is different: Side 1 features Steve Marriott penned rock and roll; Side 2 has classic R&B covers; Side 3 is a collection of acoustic Steve Marriott songs; finally Side 4 features Humble Pie live in concert.^[1]

This album showcases the dynamic diversity and talent of Steve Marriott's gritty bluesy vocals with some funky soul mixed in throughout along with straight ahead blistering rockers. The band is right on and they deliver an extremely energetic powerhouse combination on this double album that overall ranks with their best along with Smokin' and Performance Rockin' The Fillmore.

Eat It was the band's seventh official album release and their fifth for A&M Records. [This was also their 3rd double LP (2-record set) within 18 months, the other 2 being 1972's Performance Rockin' The Fillmore and the late 1972 A&M compilation - Lost & Found.]

Steve Marriott produced this album and it was the first album recorded in Marriott's newly-built home recording studio he titled Clear Sounds, in a converted barn at Beehive Cottage, Moreton, Essex.^[2]

"Get Down to It" was featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Get Down to It" (Marriott) – 3:27
2. "Good Booze and Bad Women" (Marriott) – 3:18
3. "Is It for Love?" (Marriott) – 4:41
4. "Drugstore Cowboy" (Marriott) – 5:40

Side two

1. "Black Coffee" (Ike Turner, Tina Turner) – 3:11
2. "I Believe to My Soul" (Ray Charles) – 4:05
3. "Shut up and Don't Interrupt Me" (Bristo, Starr) – 3:07
4. "That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 3:49

Side three

1. "Say No More" (Marriott) – 2:01
2. "Oh, Bella" (All That's Hers) (Marriott) – 3:28
3. "Summer Song" (Marriott) – 2:48
4. "Beckton Dumps" (Marriott) – 3:16

Side four

1. "Up Our Sleeve" (Humble Pie-lyrics by Steve Marriott) – 5:02
2. "Honky Tonk Women" (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) – 3:58
3. "(I'm A) Road Runner" (Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) – 13:29

• Album cover designed by Kosh^[3]

Releases

• 1973 LP A&M Cat.#3701
• 1973 LP A&M Cat.#3701 (2)
• 1999 CD Import Cat.#10593
• 1973 A&M Cat.#1889
• 2006 CD Universal Cat.#6231 Japan
• 2007 CD Universal Cat.#93223
• 2007 CD Universal Cat.#93223 Japan

Notes

External links

• You Tube: Humble Pie perform "Black Coffee"