Peter Frampton - Frampton's Camel - Hybrid Stereo SACD

2023 release

Peter Frampton's Frampton's Camel SACD.
This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players.
Remastered Audio by Chris Bellman.
Mastered Direct to DSD from the Original Master Tape by Bernie Grundman.

The Frampton@50 Series studio releases are also available on hybrid CD/SACDs which play on all CD and SACD players. These CD/SACDs feature the same definitive remastered audio as the 180G LPs, mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Direct-to-DSD from analog tapes.

Allmusicguide

Named after Frampton's touring band at the time, Frampton's Camel has a harder-rocking feel than its predecessor Wind of Change, with Mick Gallagher's percussive electric piano and organ taking a prominent position in the mix and Frampton getting a harder sound from his electric guitars (though his acoustic playing is so lush and lyrical that it dominates the album here and there in its quiet way). The sound on this recording lays out the formula that Frampton would take to mega-success three years later with the release of Frampton Comes Alive.

The songs are all first-rate or close to it -- included here is the original studio version of the group composition "Do You Feel Like We Do," a quicker-tempo, extended (albeit less majestic) version of which appeared on the latter album and became a staple of classic-rock radio, but the Frampton-composed "I Got My Eyes on You" and "Don't Fade Away" and the Frampton-Gallagher "All Night Long" are also compelling examples of '70s hard rock at its commercial best. This album also includes a nice cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Believe (When I Fall in Love With You It Will Be Forever)," the power ballad "Lines on My Face," the rollicking "White Sugar," and Frampton's gorgeously lyrical, all acoustic "Just the Time of the Year." As on Wind of Change, Frampton's use of dynamics and mix of acoustic and electric guitars keeps the music from becoming one-dimensional.

Jim Newsom  

Selections
Side A:

    I Got My Eyes on You
    All Night Long
    Lines on My Face
    Which Way the Wind Blows
    I Believe (When I Fall in Love With You It Will Be Forever)

Side B:

    White Sugar
    Don't Fade Away
    Just the Time of Year
    Do You Feel Like We Do