Humble Pie
Town And Country
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MOG Editorial Review
Perhaps their only album capable of showing the group's collective range, Town and Country found Humble Pie shifting back and forth between their infamous boogie sound and straightforward rock 'n' roll. Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott put their mutual love of boogie behind for the most part, only appearing on tracks like their outstanding cover of Buddy Holly's "Heartbeat." Instead, they scale things back for a blues-tinged hard rock sound on tracks like "Only You Can See," even experimenting with the sitar on "The Light of Love." Frampton and Marriott both experienced their finest moments elsewhere, but Town and Country is easily the finest collection of work they joined forces on.
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AMG Review of Town and Country
Jim Newsom
All Music GuideAnyone 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.
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