Release Date: 16 August 2024
Label: Proper Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805520240789
Genres: Rock Progressive Rock
Release Date: 26 March 2021
Label: Esoteric / Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929475380
Genres: Rock Progressive Rock
Description
Long deleted and talked of often in hushed tones, It'll All Work Out In Boomland with its superb musicianship and extended tunes is being made available on LP once again - This re-issue faithfully re-creates the original 1970 Decca UK release and is pressed onto 180g vinyl.
T2 were formed from Bulldog Breed alumni Bernard Jinks on bass and guitarist and vocalist Keith Cross with drummer Peter Dunton from The Gun. Dunton and Jinks had both played in the group Neon Pearl. Securing a sizeable advance for their talents, what they created in It'll All Work Out In Boomland is a progressive rock collector's dream – an album impeccably played with blues influences and prog freedom, pressed in limited quantities with originals now selling for a considerable sum of money.
Description
NEW RE-MASTERED & EXPANDED 3CD DIGIPACK EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1970 ALBUM BY T2
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE TWO ADDITIONAL CDs OF ARCHIVE RECORDINGS FROM 1970 & 1971-1972
NEWLY RE-MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL DECCA MASTER TAPES
WITH ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY
COVERAGE ON RELEVANT WEBSITES & FANZINES
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a re-mastered and expanded 3CD digipack edition of the cult 1970 album by Progressive Rock power trio T2. Formed in 1970 by PETER DUNTON, a former drummer with GUN, and former members of BULLDOG BREED, guitarist and backing vocalist KEITH CROSS and BERNARD JINKS (bass, backing vocals), T2 officially released one classic studio album during their short career, It'll All Work Out in Boomland, issued by Decca Records in July 1970.
Taking the template established by acts such as THE WHO, CREAM and JEFF BECK GROUP, the maturity of the music belies the young age of the band. Featuring only four tracks, the album's highlights included No More White Horses, perhaps the piece-de-resistance of the album, an amazingly powerful song with a wonderful horn arrangement, building to a powerful feedback-laden climax and the twenty-minute long Morning.
The album earned much praise upon its release and the band's live performances hailed the teenager KEITH CROSS as "the new Eric Clapton", much against his wishes. Despite this, issues with their record company, combined with a general dissatisfaction led to Cross departing the band after the trio had recorded a series of excellent tracks for a potential second album that failed to materialise after the band were dropped by Decca. By 1971 Bernard Jinks had also departed and Peter Dunton formed a new line-up of the band featuring guitarist ANDREW BOWN and bassist JOHN WEIR. This new line-up performed on the UK concert circuit and also recorded a series of fine tracks in the search of a new recording contract. Alas, by the end of 1972 T2 disbanded.
By the new millennium It'll All Work Out in Boomland had been re-appraised and had attracted a cult following among aficionados of Progressive and Underground rock of the early 1970s, even leading to several tracks being sampled by DJs on Dance tracks. This Esoteric Recordings edition has been newly re-mastered from the original Decca master tapes and has been expanded by a further two CDs featuring their later recordings made in 1970 and 1971-1972. T2's sole Decca album is presented here as a recognised classic of the era.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Lighthouse Family
John Cale
John Cale
John Cale
Shed Seven
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Various Artists
Various Artists
