Teenage Head is The Flamin' Groovies third studio album, released in 1971. Released the same year as The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

' classic album Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers

-Personnel:The Rolling Stones*Mick Jagger – lead vocals, acoustic guitar on "Dead Flowers", electric guitar on "Sway", percussion*Keith Richards – electric guitar, six & twelve string acoustic guitar, backing vocals...

, Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....

 reportedly noticed the similarities between the albums and thought the Flamin' Groovies did the better take on the theme of classic blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and rock 'n roll revisited in a modern context.

Track listing

All songs written by Cyril Jordan and Roy A. Loney except where noted.

Side 1

1. "High Flyin' Baby"
2. "City Lights"
3. "Have You Seen My Baby?" (Randy Newman
   Randy Newman
   Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
   
   )
4. "Yesterday's Numbers"

Side 2

5. "Teenage Head"
6. "32-20" (Robert Johnson
   Robert Johnson
   Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings from 1936–37 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy, poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given...
   
   , new lyrics by Roy A. Loney)
7. "Evil Hearted Ada" (Loney)
8. "Doctor Boogie"
9. "Whiskey Woman"

CD bonus tracks

10. "Shakin' All Over" (Fred Heath, Heath, Johnny Kidd)
11. "That'll Be the Day" (Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
12. "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry)
13. "Walkin' the Dog" (Thomas)
14. "Scratch My Back" (Slim Harpo)
15. "Carol" (Chuck Berry)
16. "Going Out Theme"

Personnel

• Cyril Jordan
  Cyril Jordan
  Cyril Jordan was born in San Francisco on 31 August 1948. He is a guitarist and founding member of San Francisco cult band The Flamin' Groovies. They are best remembered for their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Roy Loney - guitar, vocals
• Tim Lynch - guitar
• George Alexander - bass
• Danny Mihm - drums
• Jim Dickinson
  Jim Dickinson
  James Luther "Jim" Dickinson was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the Memphis based band, Mudboy & The Neutrons.- Biography :...
  
  - piano

External links

• Review by George Sarostin