About Time
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 22, 1989
StudioArdent
GenreBlues rock
Length54:13
LabelChrysalis
ProducerTerry Manning, Ten Years After
Ten Years After chronology
Universal
(1987)
About Time
(1989)
Live 1990
(1994)

About Time is an album by the blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1989.[1][2] It was the final studio album featuring Alvin Lee, their singer and most prominent songwriter since the band's formation. It was their first studio release in fifteen years (since Positive Vibrations, in 1974).[3]

About Time peaked at number 120 on the US Billboard 200.

Production

Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, the album was produced by Terry Manning.[4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Windsor StarC[7]

The Boston Globe noted that "pile-driving party rock is the order of the day, with guitarist Alvin Lee's fuzzed solos stealing the show as usual."[4] The Windsor Star wrote that "the ham-handed rock-blues songs sound like outtakes from TYA's best years."[7]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Highway of Love"Steve Gould, Alvin Lee5:13
2."Let's Shake It Up"Gould, Lee5:14
3."I Get All Shook Up"Lee4:38
4."Victim of Circumstance"Lee4:29
5."Going to Chicago"Tim Hinkley, Lee4:22
6."Wild Is the River"Gould, Lee3:53
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Saturday Night"Gould, Lee4:06
2."Bad Blood"Tony Crooks, Leo Lyons7:09
3."Working in a Parking Lot"Crooks, Lyons, Andy Nye4:52
4."Outside My Window"Gould, Lee5:47
5."Waiting for the Judgement Day"Gould, Lee4:30
Total length:54:13

Notes

  • The track order is different for the CD release, which puts "Wild is the River" between "Working in a Parking Lot" and "Outside My Window".

Personnel

Ten Years After

with:

  • Nick Carls – backing vocals
  • Jimi Jamison – backing vocals
Technical

References

  1. "Music". Part II. Newsday. 11 September 1989. p. 2.
  2. Heim, Chris (25 August 1989). "Guitar Heroes". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 54.
  3. Bourke, Brian G. (17 September 1989). "New Music". Stars. Syracuse Herald American. p. 25.
  4. 1 2 Morse, Steve (7 September 1989). "Record Review". Calendar. The Boston Globe. p. 6.
  5. "About Time - Ten Years After | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 699.
  7. 1 2 Shaw, Ted (14 October 1989). "Record Review". Windsor Star. p. C2.
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