Back Door (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Back Door

| type = studio

| artist = Back Door

| cover = Back Door - Back Door.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1972|df=yes}}

| recorded = 3–{{Start date|1972|6|4|df=yes}} in London, England

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz fusion, progressive rock

| length = 30:52

| label = Blakey (original)
Warner Bros. (re-issue)

| producer =

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = 8th Street Nites

| next_year = 1973

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |first=Paul |last=Collins |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000511593|pure_url=yes}}|title=Back Door: Back Door > Review |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=19 January 2016}}

}}

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.{{cite web |first= |last= |url=http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=45084 |title=JazzTimes Top 50, 1970-2005 |publisher=JazzTimes |date=2005 |accessdate=19 January 2016}} In 2014 it was re-released on CD, compiled with 8th Street Nites and Another Fine Mess, by BGO Records.{{cite web |first=Mark |last=Gilbert |url=http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/magazine/904/review-back-door-back-door-et-al |title=Review: Back Door, Back Door et al |publisher=Jazz Journal |date=2014 |accessdate=19 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126183614/http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/magazine/904/review-back-door-back-door-et-al |archive-date=26 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}

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

{{tracklist

| headline = Side one

| all_music = Ron Aspery and Colin Hodgkinson

| title1 = Vienna Breakdown

| length1 = 2:48

| title2 = Plantagenet

| length2 = 2:25

| title3 = Lieutenant Loose

| length3 = 1:55

| title4 = Askin' the Way

| length4 = 2:21

| title5 = Turning Point

| length5 = 3:03

| title6 = Slivadiv

| length6 = 2:50

}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Side two

| title1 = Jive Grind

| length1 = 2:20

| title2 = Human Bed

| length2 = 1:39

| title3 = Catcote Rag

| length3 = 2:39

| title4 = Waltz for a Wollum

| length4 = 2:56

| title5 = Folksong

| length5 = 2:11

| title6 = Back Door

| length6 = 3:45

}}

Personnel

Adapted from the Back Door liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Back Door |others=Back Door |year=1972 |type=sleeve |publisher=Blakey Records |location=Blakey Ridge, Yorkshire}}

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