Back Door is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Back Door, released independently in 1972 by Blakey Records. It received wider distribution when it was adopted by Warner Bros. the following year. It introduced the group's virtuoso approach to jazz, funk, soul, blues and hard rock music. In 2005, the album was listed on JazzTimes' top fifty albums released between 1970 and 2005. In 2014 it was re-released on CD, compiled with 8th Street Nites and Another Fine Mess, by BGO Records.
The original album cover shows a photograph of the back door of the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge in the North York Moors. The Warner Brothers re-release shows the Lion Inn in the snow with a small inset picture of the band in front of the inn's back door.
The track "Catcote Rag" is a bass solo named after The Catcote, a pub in Hartlepool (now demolished) where Back Door played regularly.
“Slivadiv” was sampled by Beastie Boys as the intro to “Stand Together” on their 1992 album Check Your Head.
Track listing
Personnel Adapted from the Back Door liner notes. Back Door Ron Aspery – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute Tony Hicks – drums Colin Hodgkinson – bass guitar
Release history Region Date Label Format Catalog United Kingdom 1972 Blakey LP BLP. 5989 1973 Warner Bros. K 46231 United States BS 2716 Europe 2000 CD 936 247 759
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