Home by Procol Harum

Home, Procol Harum's fourth album, came out in June 1970 from a band that had lost its organist and bassist: Matthew Fisher and David Knights were gone, and Chris Copping came in to cover both jobs. With Gary Brooker singing and playing piano, B. J. Wilson on drums and Robin Trower on lead guitar, this was more or less the Paramounts reborn, and Copping was hired to drag some of that old R&B grit back into the sound.

It took two tries. Autumn 1969 sessions at Trident, with Fisher producing, got binned because nobody liked how they sounded, and the band started over at Abbey Road in February 1970 with Chris Thomas producing and Jeff Jarratt engineering. What came out leans harder and bluesier, Trower's guitar stepping out of the church-organ haze; "Whiskey Train", his tune with lyricist Keith Reid, went out ahead of the album. The sleeve sends up a snakes and ladders board, with the band as the playing pieces.

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