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Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre: On The Road To Freedom

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On November 2, 1973, “Chrysalis” label released “On the Road to Freedom”, the first Alvin Lee album. Lee recorded the album together with the gospel singer Mylon LeFevre, at “Space Studio”, Lee’s home studio in south Oxfordshire, which he and LeFevre built especially for this project. Lee was also the producer of the album.

Personnel:

  • Alvin Lee– lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass; sitar, drums, mixing
  • Mylon LeFevre– lead, harmony and backing vocals; 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, bass, percussion
  • George Harrison (as Hari Georgeson) – acoustic guitar, dobro, bass, harmony vocals
  • Ron Wood– electric and 12-string acoustic guitars, bass, slide guitar, drums
  • Steve Winwood– piano, electric piano
  • Tim Hinkley– piano, organ, backing vocals
  • Boz Burrell– bass, backing vocals
  • Bob Black– steel guitar
  • Ian Wallace– drums
  • Mick Fleetwood– drums
  • Jim Capaldi– drums, percussion
  • Mike Patto– percussion, backing vocals
  • Reebop Kwaku Baah– congas
  • Andy Stein– fiddle
  • Harold Burgon, Andy Jaworski – recording
  • Andy Jaworski, Roger Lowe – ohotography

Track listing:

  1. On the Road to Freedom – Alvin Lee
  2. The World Is Changing (I Got a Woman Back in Georgia) – Alvin Lee, Mylon LeFevre
  3. So Sad (No Love of His Own) – George Harrison
  4. Fallen Angel – Alvin Lee
  5. Funny – Alvin Lee
  6. We Will Shine – Mylon LeFevre
  7. Carry My Load – Mylon Lee
  8. Lay Me Back – Mylon LeFevre
  9. Let ‘Em Say What They Will – Ron Wood
  10. I Can’t Take It – Mylon LeFevre
  11. Riffin – Alvin Lee, Mylon LeFevre
  12. Rockin’ ‘Til the Sun Goes Down – Alvin Lee, Mylon LeFevre