Jeff Beck Solo LPs, ‘Truth’ and ‘Beck-Ola,’ Get Color Vinyl Reissues
by Best Classic Bands Staff
A pair of acclaimed albums, Jeff Beck’s Truth and The Jeff Beck Group’s Beck-Ola – his first two after leaving the Yardbirds – have been remastered by Barry Grint at Air Studios and will be reissued on June 27, 2025, on orange and white vinyl respectively, on Parlophone Records. Truth is available to pre-order in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here. Pre-order Beck-Ola in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here.
Truth was originally released in 1968 and was Beck’s debut solo album and introduced the world to the talents of Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. Having left the Yardbirds in 1966, it’s an album that is held in high esteem, lauded at the time of release and breaking into the top 15 of the Billboard chart, it has retrospectively been hailed as a classic, seen by many as one of the earliest examples of heavy rock and has also been celebrated as one of the greatest British blues rock albums of all time.
Best Classic Bands’ Album Rewind calls Truth “a genre-busting masterpiece that signaled a half-dozen highways for the future of rock: heavy before Led Zeppelin, metal before Deep Purple, prog before Genesis and also as experimental, psychedelic and rowdy as anything coming out of San Francisco at the time.”
Beck-Ola is the second album by Beck and the first credited to The Jeff Beck Group. It was released in 1969 and broke into the U.S. top 15 of the Billboard 200 and top 40 of the U.K. album chart. Beck had purposefully made personnel changes to the band in order to take them in an even heavier rock direction from Truth. This album once again featured Wood and Stewart but would be their final album with the Jeff Beck Group.
Track Listings
Truth
Side One
1. Shapes Of Things
2. Let Me Love You
3. Morning Dew
4. You Shook Me
5. Ol’ Man River
Side Two
1. Greensleeves
2.Rock My Plimsoul
3. Beck’s Bolero
4. Blues De Luxe
5. I Ain’t Superstitious
Beck-Ola
Side One
1.All Shook Up
2.Spanish Boots
3.Girl From Mill Valley
4.Jailhouse Rock
Side Two
1.Plynth (Water Down The Drain)
2.The Hangman’s Knee
3.Rice Pudding
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Jump into a conversationTwo EXCELLENT albums that I’ll be soon buying. Incidentally Ron Wood played bass on these two albums and especially on Beck-Ola shows that he is arguably at least as good if not better on bass.