This came out in the summer of 2004, and was the first studio album to feature guitarist/singer Joe Gooch in place of Alvin Lee. A more modern blues rock album, Now is one of my favorites under the TYA banner, and a CD I still out regularly. From the start with “When It All Falls Down”, Now rocks. Lots of further great tracks here with “Time To Kill”, “Long Time Running”, and the more laid back epic piece “A Hundred Miles High”. The North American version of Now featured different cover art, as well as 2 live ‘bonus’ tracks of TYA classics “I’d Love to Change The World” and “Going Home”. The band released the live album Roadworks from the tour in support of Now, which also featured a number of songs from it. A follow up album titled Evolution was released a few years later (I’ve recently got this one). Joe Gooch & Leo Lyons left TYA a few years later and formed Hundred Seventy Split, while keyboardist Chick Churchill and drummer Ric Lee carried on with replacements.

Anyway, if you never heard this era of Ten Years After, check out Now.