Humble Pie - Town and Country

Humble Pie’s 1969 rarity is finally remastered and made available on CD again. Critically acclaimed by the music press in 1969, the second album was set to launch the band into superstardom when their record label suddenly collapsed, taking the album out of UK record shops, while in the USA, it was not released.

Curated by surviving members Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley, the newly remastered CD is expanded to 67 minutes and adds six outtakes recorded at Olympic and Morgan Studios during June-September 1969 plus Humble Pie’s last recording session for Immediate on 3 January 1970. Outtakes include the previously unreleased ‘Greg’s Tune’ plus their epic cover of Ray Charles’ ‘I’ll Drown In My Own Tears’ as recorded at Magdalen Laver Village Hall in Essex on 10 July 1969.A deluxe digi-pac reproduces the Hipgnosis-designed original album sleeve, a protective card inner wallet holds the CD and a 24-page fully-illustrated booklet includes, graphics and photos plus all lyrics and exclusive commentary by Jerry Shirley and notes by reissue producer RobCaiger. 

“Thanks for the care you are giving these old chestnuts.”
PETER FRAMPTON, 2025

“Our albums sound so much better than the originals thanks to all the hard work remastering and repackaging by Kenney Jones’ team at Nice Records in conjunction with myself and Peter.”
JERRY SHIRLEY, 2025

tracklist -
1 Take Me Back
2 The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake
3 The Light of Love
4 Cold Lady
5 Down Home Again
6 Ollie Ollie
7 Alabama '69
8 Heartbeat
9 Only You Can See
10 Silver Tongue
11 Home and Away
12 Every Mothers Son (Jesse Hardin)
13 BTMG's
14 The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake (Alternate Version)
15 Greg's Tune (Previously Unreleased)
16 79th Street Blues (Previously Unreleased Version on CD)
17 I'll Drown in My Own Tears