Teenage Licks (Remastered) Stone The Crows

• 1 Big Jim Salter 04:34
• 2 Faces 04:42
• 3 Mr Wizard 05:29
• 4 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright 05:01
• 5 Keep on Rollin' 03:49
• 6 Ailen Mochree 00:25
• 7 One Five Eight 06:28
• 8 I May Be Right I May Be Wrong 05:03
• 9 Seven Lakes 03:02
• Total Runtime 38:33

Info for Teenage Licks (Remastered)

Stone The Crows wurde im Jahr 1969 im schottischen Glasgow gegründet und ging aus der Band The Power hervor. In den nur knapp vier Jahren ihres Bestehens veröffentlichte die Gruppe vier Alben, die sowohl in der Fachpresse als auch bei der Hörerschaft sehr viel Beachtung fanden. Doch ein Single-Hit blieb aus, da sowohl die Musiker wie auch deren Produzent Mark London keinerlei Wert auf eine kommerzielle Ausschlachtung ihrer Sounds legten. So standen logischerweise vor allem die Live-Mitschnitte "BBC 1 Live In Concert", "Live At Montreux 1972" und "Live At BBC" besonders im Fokus der Fans, die aber alle erst veröffentlicht wurden, als die Band schon lange nicht mehr existierte.

"Teenage Licks barst vor Ideen und Optimismus: McGinnis hinterließ das starke Abschiedgeschenk ”One Five Eight”. Neben begeisterndem Blues Rock des Gründungstrios mit der Hasch-Hymne ”Mr Wizard” überzeugte schottischer Folk ebenso wie Dylans ”Don’t Think Twice”." (Good Times)

Maggie Bell, vocals
Steve Thompson, bass
Les Harvey, guitar, recorder
Ronnie Leahy, keyboards
Colin Allen, percussion

Produced by Mark London

Digitally remastered

Stone the Crows
was a tough-luck, working class, progressive soul band that came out of the pubs of Scotland in the early '70s. They had everything going for them at the start: not one, but two gritty singers, a talented guitarist, a rhythm section that had played with John Mayall, and the name recognition of having Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant as their producer. Despite favorable reviews by the critics, however, they never managed to sell their hybridized soul music to a large audience. In addition, they lost two of their key members early on, one of whom was tragically electrocuted, and the group broke up after four albums.

Their biggest contribution to rock was the immense vocal talent of one Maggie Bell. Winner of several Top Girl Singer awards in Britain, Bell had a raunchy, gutbucket voice that, although it fell short of the naked emotion and range of Janis Joplin's, came probably closer to her style than any other female singer. She first attracted notice when she jumped up on stage at a show in Glasgow to wail with Alex Harvey of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Impressed by her talent (and audacity), Harvey hooked her up with his guitar-playing younger brother Les, then fronting a local band called the Kinning Park Ramblers. After playing army bases in Europe for several years as Power, Bell, Harvey, bassist Jim Dewar, keyboardist Jon McGinnis, and drummer Colin Allen (who had played with future bass player Steve Thompson in John Mayall's band), came to the attention of Peter Grant and they changed their name to Stone the Crows, which supposedly is a Scottish variation of "the hell with it."

Both of their first two albums received good reviews upon release, but sold very meagerly. Then bassist/vocalist Jim Dewar quit the band to join Robin Trower's fledgling group, to be replaced by the non-singing Steve Thompson. Shortly after releasing Teenage Licks, guitarist Les Harvey was electrocuted onstage during a gig at Swansea University. This appeared to end the band, but they carried on, recruiting young Jimmy McCulloch from Thunderclap Newman and released "'Ontinuous Performance." Although the rock press lauded the singing of Bell, her group couldn't seem to emerge from the shadows and they broke up after this last album, with McCulloch flying away to join Paul McCartney in Wings. (Peter Kurtz, AMG)

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