Works Volume 2
Occupation
- Keith Emerson: keyboards
- Greg Lake: vocals, bass, guitar
- Carl Palmer: Drums
Works Volume II is the eighth album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It was released in 1977 and reached number 37 in the U.S. charts.
The album was released in the same year as its predecessor Works Volume I, but includes pieces that already recorded for Brain Salad Surgery, at that time, however, were not published, as well as a new version of I Believe in Father Christmas. This song was posted by Greg Lake of ELP off in 1975 as a single and kept only of Queens Bohemian Rhapsody from first place in the UK Singles Chart.
Styles and reception
The recordings are not used in Brain Salad Surgery - the eponymous song, When the Apple Blossoms ... and Tiger in a Spotlight - are short progressive rock pieces as they were also present on previous albums. The remaining pieces can be assigned to the individual musicians as in the first three pages of the previous album, with Keith Emerson plays with orchestral accompaniment by the ( U.S. ) musical history of the early 20th century; a swingige adaptation of folk songs Show Me the Way to Go Home, the Maple Leaf Rag and the boogie -woogie Honky Tonk Train Blues by Meade Lux Lewis, and the right in this series own Barrelhouse Shake - Down.
David Ross Smith of allmusic keeps the album highly underestimated, Lakes and Palmer praises incredibly strong performance and holds Emerson's contribution to the solid and creative, but old-fashioned, what the reason was for him, so the band could not continue to exist.
Title list
Page 1
Page 2
On the CD release of 1993 other versions of the following items are also included: