Music

Truth was one of the first albums I bought as a very early teenager. I can’t quite remember where I heard it but suspect that it was associated with friends at high school. What I do strongly recall, however, was how good it sounded and the almost other universe platform it operated from. Even the yin and yang features of Truth’s record sleeve with the woman’s image on black background coupled with the bare- yet eccentric- liner notes on the back left me curious and engaged. What’s more, none of my interest has waned over the fifty years since its release. In the quick research for this posting, one thing hit me straight away. There are very little primary or secondary sources regarding the background to, or making of, Truth . In what I’ve read, Jeff Beck references it infrequently and offers little in terms of its production or intent. Other music primers either bundle Truth with Beck-Ola or hog-tie it to Led Zeppelin I to form a type of tag team release. Both strategies ...