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title: "Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf"
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# Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf

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## Description

NEWLY REMASTERED CD RELEASE FOR THIS CLASSIC ALBUM by URIAH HEEP FOUNDER KEN HENSLEY BOOKLET WITH RESTORED ARTWORK, PHOTOS & LINER NOTES ESOTERIC RECORDINGS are pleased to announce the release of a newly remastered edition of KEN HENSLEY's first solo album. Recorded in 1973 and originally released on the Bronze label, "Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf" featured URIAH HEEP bassist Gary Thain and drummer Lee Kerslake. The resulting album was equal to anything recorded by URIAH HEEP at their peak and features wonderful material such as `Cold Autumn Sunday', `Black Hearted Lady' and `Go Down', along with a version of `Rain' (also recorded by Uriah Heep). This reissue joins Hensley's 1975 solo offering "Eager to Please", also released this month, as Esoteric's overview of Hensley's Bronze solo albums.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not Heep but still hip
  

*by Y***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2011*

Ken Hensley must be one of the most underrated musicians in rock history. The sheer quantity and quality of its output in the first half of the seventies, both with Uriah Heep and alone is astonishing. That many critics didn't like Heep much is a clear sign that you should never trust rock critics, only use them to gain information and then make your own point of view. But let's get to this first record as a solo artist, an album I only got round to buy recently, I must admit in general I'm not too keen on solo records by members of solid groups, usually either you get a third-rate version of the original or some overblown effort to show "I can do better". Not so with Mr.Hensley, clearly using his solo space to use songs he couldn't use well or adapt to Uriah Heep but rightly reckoned worthwhile. His voice, heard in some Heep tracks, has little to do withe the mighty Byron, but it's a good voice nonetheless and suits the much less heavy stuff here very fine, his guitar playing may not be hot as Box's but there's nothing wrong with it and his keyboard playing is just as good as with Heep (he may not be a virtuoso like Emerson or Wakeman, but who cares). I'd say he would have passed an audition for his own band both as a singer and a guitar player! So what you get is good songwriting, clever, subtle arrangements and a final result which is both very far from any Uriah Heep record but not disjointed, not like he didn't want people to think of Heep. There is also a distinct country influence, to the point that at least one track wouldn't be out of place in an Eagles album! What would Heep fans make of his country leanings I fail to imagine, nevertheless, I still think an open-minded Heep fan should give it a try and so should fans of seventies rock in general. A nice surprise.

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    Five Stars
  

*by P***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 December 2019*

I actually prefer this album to anything by Uriah Heep.It has a softer, more 'singer/songwriter' sound.

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    Old but good
  

*by R***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2012*

I have been looking for this album in CD format for quite some time as I had the original album.  It was Ken Hensley's début solo effort, he was the keyboard player/songwriter of Uriah Heep and although is was a more mellow sound than Uriah Heep I liked it and really enjoyed listening to it after all this time

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