Ten Years After

Ten Years After Key participants in the British blues scene, Ten Years After was formed in 1965 in Nottingham. The group, originally called the Jaybirds, comprised guitarist/vocalist Alvin Lee, organist Chick Churchill, bassist Leo Lyons, and drummer Ric Lee. Their material was primarily blues based—covers of Aleck Miller “Sonny Boy Williamson” and Willie Dixon appeared alongside their twelve-bar-oriented originals—but the band worked in jazz and rock influences with equal aplomb. One of their…