Truth (album)

Truth
Studio album by The Jeff Beck Group as just Jeff Beck
Released	August 1968
Genre	Blues Rock Proto metal
Length	40:16
Label	Epic
Producer	Mickie Most
Professional reviews
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The Jeff Beck Group as just Jeff Beck chronology
Truth (1968) Beck-Ola (1969)

Truth (1968) was the first full-length album by Jeff Beck and his backing group. The album featured three original songwriting collaborations between Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, "Let Me Love You", "Blues Deluxe", and "Rock My Plimsoul". Highlighted by a re-recording of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things", Willie Dixon's "I Ain't Superstitious" and the traditional "Greensleeves", it is considered by many to be one of the first heavy metal albums. Tom Scholz of Boston has listed Truth as his favorite album of all time. Scholz said: "I knew Jeff Beck's Truth album inside and out." Both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin played on "Beck's Bolero", originally recorded in 1966 with Keith Moon on drums and Nicky Hopkins on piano, and released as the B side to Beck's first solo release, "Hi Ho Silver Lining" in 1967.

Track listing

1. "Shapes of Things" 3:22 (Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith)
2. "Let Me Love You" 4:44 (Jeffrey Rod)
3. "Morning Dew" 4:40 (Bonnie Dobson and Tim Rose)
4. "You Shook Me" 2:33 (Willie Dixon and J. B. Lenoir)
5. "Ol' Man River" 4:01 (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein)
6. "Greensleeves" 1:50 (Traditional, arranged by Jeff Beck)
7. "Rock My Plimsoul" 4:13 (Jeffrey Rod)
8. "Beck's Bolero" 2:54 (Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck)
9. "Blues De Luxe" 7:33 (Jeffrey Rod)
10. "I Ain't Superstitious" 4:53 (Willie Dixon)

Group members and other participants

• Jeff Beck- guitars, vocals, arranger; bass on "Ol' Man River"
• Rod Stewart- vocals (except on "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Micky Waller- drums (except on "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Ron Wood- bass (except on "Ol' Man River", "Greensleeves" and "Beck's Bolero")
• Nicky Hopkins- piano on "Morning Dew", "You Shook Me", "Beck's Bolero" and "Blues Deluxe"
• Keith Moon- drums on "Beck's Bolero", tympani on "Ol' Man River" (credited for the latter as "You Know Who")
• Jimmy Page- 12-string rhythm guitar on "Beck's Bolero"
• John Paul Jones- bass on "Beck's Bolero" and Hammond Organ on "Ol' Man River" and "You Shook Me"
• Mickie Most- producer
• Ken Scott- engineer