A Space in Time by Ten Years After

A Space in Time, Ten Years After's sixth album, came out in August 1971 on Chrysalis in Britain and Columbia in America, and it finds the Nottingham blues-rock bruisers easing off the throttle. Leo Lyons produced, and the record trades some of the band's usual heaviness for acoustic guitar, leaving air between the notes where there used to be wall-to-wall blues-rock sweat.

"I'd Love to Change the World" is the payoff, a pretty acoustic chorus shoved up against gnarly electric riffing, and it became the biggest hit they ever had, going to number 10 in Canada and number 40 in the US, though they seldom bothered to play it live. "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You" charted too, and the album itself climbed to number 17 on the Billboard 200.

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