Back Door
Studio album by Back Door
Released	1972 (1972)
Recorded	3 June – 4 June 1972 (1972-06-04) in London, England
Genre	Jazz fusion, progressive rock
Length	30:52
Label	Blakey (original) Warner Bros. (re-issue)
Back Door chronology
Back Door (1972) 8th Street Nites (1973)

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Back Door is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Back Door, released independently in 1972 by Blakey Records. It received wider distribution when it was adopted by Warner Bros. the following year. It introduced the group's virtuoso approach to jazz, funk, soul, blues and hard rock music. In 2005, the album was listed on JazzTimes' top fifty albums released between 1970 and 2005.^[2] In 2014 it was re-released on CD, compiled with 8th Street Nites and Another Fine Mess, by BGO Records.^[3]

The original album cover shows a photograph of the back door of the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge in the North York Moors. The Warner Brothers re-release shows the Lion Inn in the snow with an small inset picture of the band in front of the inn's back door.

The track "Catcote Rag" is a bass solo named after The Catcote, a pub in Hartlepool (now demolished) where Back Door played regularly.

“Slivadiv” was sampled by Beastie Boys as the intro to “Stand Together” on their 1992 album Check Your Head.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Back Door liner notes.^[4]

Back Door

• Ron Aspery – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
• Tony Hicks – drums
• Colin Hodgkinson – bass guitar

Release history