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- Artist: Humble Pie
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- Release Date: 1969 08
- Total Time: 37:51
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
Anyone who thinks of Humble Pie solely in terms of their latter-day boogie rock will be greatly surprised with this, the band's second release, for it is almost entirely acoustic. There is a gently rocking cover of Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat," and a couple of electrified Steve Marriott numbers, but the overall feel is definitely more of the country than the town or city. "The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake" is a typical Marriott country ditty, similar to those he would include almost as a token on each of the subsequent studio albums, and "Every Mother's Son" is structured as a folk tale. On "The Light of Love," Marriott even plays sitar. Peter Frampton's contributions here foreshadow the acoustic-based music he would make as a solo artist a few years later. As a whole, this is a crisp, cleanly recorded, attractive-sounding album, totally atypical of the Humble Pie catalog, but well worth a listen. ~ Jim Newsom, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Take Me Back (Lyrics) | Peter Frampton | Humble Pie | (4:52) |
| The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake | Steve Marriott | Humble Pie | (2:59) |
| The Light of Love | Greg Ridley | Humble Pie | (3:00) |
| Cold Lady | Jerry Shirley | Humble Pie | (3:22) |
| Down Home Again | Steve Marriott | Humble Pie | (2:56) |
| Ollie Ollie | Humble Pie | (:50) | |
| Every Mother's Son | Steve Marriott | Humble Pie | (5:43) |
| Heartbeat | Humble Pie | (2:33) | |
| Only You Can See | Peter Frampton | Humble Pie | (3:38) |
| Silver Tongue | Steve Marriott | Humble Pie | (3:20) |
| Home and Away | Greg Ridley, Peter Frampton | Humble Pie | (5:55) |
| 79th Street Blues | Humble Pie | Humble Pie | (3:01) |
| Greg's Song | Greg Ridley | Humble Pie | (4:28) |
