Back to the Trenches is a double live album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 2001. A collection of thirty-one live tracks taken from the soundboards of six concerts, on both sides of the Atlantic, between 1972 and 1984, only nine of these tunes are featured on the band's acclaimed 1981 double live album 'Snaz. A line on the CD sleeve says, "This brings you Nazareth in their element - up there doing it".
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| Released | 22 May 2001 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 144:41 | |||
| Label | Receiver | |||
| Producer | Nazareth | |||
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| Allmusic |    [1] |
The CD comes with a 52-page booklet containing old photos and interviews with Pete Agnew and Dan McCafferty. It also was issued on vinyl.
Pete Frame of Rock Family Trees fame was commissioned to draw up a Nazareth family tree based on info taken from an interview.
Disc one edit
- Tracks 1–10 Paris Theatre, London 1972 (same tracks as on BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert album
- Tracks 11–14 Hammersmith Odeon 1980
Disc two edit
- Tracks 1–4 Glasgow Apollo 1981
- Tracks 5–11 Fort Pierce 1982
- Tracks 12–14 Vancouver 1983
- Tracks 15–17 Slough 1984
CD1 track listing edit
All lyrics are written by Manny Charlton, Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew, Darrell Sweet except indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Morning Dew" | Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose | 7:05 |
| 2. | "Alcatraz" | Leon Russell | 3:52 |
| 3. | "Vigilante Man" | Gwen Guthrie, Woody Guthrie | 5:12 |
| 4. | "Razamanaz" | 4:04 | |
| 5. | "Night Woman" | 3:26 | |
| 6. | "Broken Down Angel" | 4:00 | |
| 7. | "Country Girl" | 4:18 | |
| 8. | "Woke Up This Morning" | 4:40 | |
| 9. | "Called Her Name" | 4:18 | |
| 10. | "Black Hearted Woman" | Gregg Allman | 9:41 |
| 11. | "Talkin' to One of the Boys" | 4:48 | |
| 12. | "Broken Down Angel" | 4:45 | |
| 13. | "Heart's Grown Cold" | Zal Cleminson | 5:40 |
| 14. | "Showdown at the Border" | Zal Cleminson | 4:09 |
CD2 track listing edit
All lyrics are written by Manny Charlton, Dan McCafferty, Pete Agnew, Darrell Sweet except indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Hair of the Dog" | 5:51 | |
| 2. | "Expect No Mercy" | 4:23 | |
| 3. | "Love Hurts" | Boudleaux Bryant | 4:06 |
| 4. | "Shapes of Things" | Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith | 5:47 |
| 5. | "Boys in the Band" | 3:11 | |
| 6. | "Beggars Day" | Nils Lofgren | 3:34 |
| 7. | "This Flight Tonight" | Joni Mitchell | 3:55 |
| 8. | "Love Leads to Madness" | McCafferty, Sweet, Charlton, Agnew, Rankin | 4:12 |
| 9. | "Gatecrash" | McCafferty, Sweet, Charlton, Agnew, Rankin | 3:18 |
| 10. | "Preservation" | 4:19 | |
| 11. | "Back to the Trenches" | 4:16 | |
| 12. | "All Night Radio" | McCafferty, Sweet, Charlton, Agnew, Rankin | 5:26 |
| 13. | "Razamanaz" | 4:28 | |
| 14. | "Whippin' Boy" | McCafferty, Sweet, Charlton, Agnew, Rankin | 4:24 |
| 15. | "Ruby Tuesday" | Keith Richards, Mick Jagger | 3:44 |
| 16. | "Telegram, Pts. 1-3" | 5:50 | |
| 17. | "This Month's Messiah" | 4:59 |
Personnel edit
- Dan McCafferty - lead vocals, bagpipes in "Hair of the Dog"
- Manny Charlton – guitars
- Billy Rankin – guitars
- Zal Cleminson - guitar
- Pete Agnew - bass guitar, backing vocals
- John Locke - keyboards
- Darrell Sweet – drums