Exercises (album)

Exercises
Exercises
Studio album by Nazareth
Released	July 1972
Studio	Trident Studios, London
Genre	Soft rock; folk rock; blues rock;
Length	35:04
Label	Peg (original UK release); Mooncrest (first UK reissue); Mountain Records (1975 UK reissue); Warner Bros. (original US release); A&M (1981 US reissue); Philips (Germany & Netherlands); Vertigo (New Zealand)
Producer	Roy Thomas Baker
Nazareth chronology

Exercises is the second studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1972. Although their music is most accurately described as "blues-tinged hard rock" (CD liner notes), this record is quite far from the band's more standard fare, featuring, quite surprisingly, a number of acoustic arrangements, several songs with orchestral strings, and traditional Scottish airs. Indeed, the album's "1692 (Glen Coe Massacre)" is about a real incident in Scottish history, namely, the massacre of Glencoe. The album is also significant for its Roy Thomas Baker production—only his third project, and well before his breakthrough works with Queen in the mid-seventies—and its oddly 'new wave' cover-art (designed by CCS Associates). An early version of the Razamanaz song, "Woke Up This Morning", also makes an appearance on Side 1. There were no cover versions on the album: it wouldn't be until their 10th studio album, No Mean City, that there was another album totally written by the band members.