Rough and Ready (album)

Rough and Ready
Studio album by
Released25 October 1971
RecordedApril–July 1971
StudioIsland, London
GenreJazz rock
Length36:48
LabelEpic
ProducerJeff Beck
The Jeff Beck Group chronology
Beck-Ola
(1969)
Rough and Ready
(1971)
Jeff Beck Group
(1972)

Rough and Ready is the third studio album by the Jeff Beck Group and the first of two by the second Jeff Beck Group. Released in 1971 by Epic Records, it featured more of a jazz, soul and R&B edge to counter Beck's lead guitar. As a songwriter, Beck contributed more pieces to Rough and Ready than he had before, or ever would again. Beck enlisted Bobby Tench as vocalist and it is also the first time keyboardist Max Middleton is heard. Other members of this line up are drummer Cozy Powell and bassist Clive Chaman.