Alvin Lee and Company is an album of material previously unavailable on LP released by their old record label Deram after they had switched to Chrysalis Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US. It consists of 2 non album singles, "Rock Your Mama" and "Portable People", the latter's b side "The Sounds", a live track, "Crossroads" and two outtakes, "Hold Me Tight" and "Boogie On".

Alvin Lee and Company
Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 1972
Recorded1967–1969
GenreBlues rock
Length30:01 (original) 44:55 (reissue 1990)
LabelDeram
ProducerMike Vernon
Ten Years After chronology
A Space in Time
(1971)
Alvin Lee and Company
(1972)
Rock & Roll Music to the World
(1972)
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Track listing edit

All songs written by Alvin Lee, unless otherwise noted.

  1. "The Sounds" – 4:13
  2. "Rock Your Mama" – 2:55
  3. "Hold Me Tight" – 2:15
  4. "Standing at the Crossroads" (Elmore James, Robert Johnson) – 4:00
  5. "Portable People" – 2:13
  6. "Boogie On" – 14:25

CD reissue bonus tracks edit

  1. "Spider in My Web" – 7:19
  2. "Hear Me Calling" – 3:48 (Single version)
  3. "I'm Going Home" – 3:37 (Single Version)
  • NOTE: Some track times are incorrectly listed on the record sleeve: the Sounds (4:00), Rock Your Mama (3:00) and Boogie On (14:25).

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Ten Years After

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