title: About Time (Ten Years After album)
text: # About Time (Ten Years After album)
  
  About Time is an album by the blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1989. It was the final studio album featuring Alvin Lee, their singer and most prominent songwriter since the band's formation. It was their first studio release in fifteen years (since Positive Vibrations, in 1974).
  
  About Time peaked at number 120 on the US Billboard 200.
  
  ## Production
  
  Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, the album was produced by Terry Manning.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
  | Windsor Star | C |
  
  The Boston Globe noted that "pile-driving party rock is the order of the day, with guitarist Alvin Lee's fuzzed solos stealing the show as usual." The Windsor Star wrote that "the ham-handed rock-blues songs sound like outtakes from TYA's best years."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  Notes
  
  * The track order is different for the CD release, which puts "Wild is the River" between "Working in a Parking Lot" and "Outside My Window".
  
  ## Personnel
  
  ### Ten Years After
  
  * Alvin Lee – guitar, vocals
  * Leo Lyons – bass
  * Ric Lee – drums
  * Chick Churchill – keyboards
  
  with:
  
  * Nick Carls – backing vocals
  * Jimi Jamison – backing vocals
  
  ### Technical
  
  * Terry Manning – engineer, producer
  