Aerosmith

From this first work, there are a couple of tracks that stand out and are worth paying attention to when playing them. On one hand, there's "Walkin’ the Dog", a piece they took from Rufus Thomas's repertoire, giving it their own stamp. On the other, and perhaps the best known today, is "Dream On". This song had a particular journey: it was first released as a single in 1973 without generating much impact, but when it was re-released in 1976, it found its place and reached the top ten most listened to in America. The album itself, Aerosmith, reached #21 on the Billboard 200. A curious detail of the first pressing is that the back cover had a printing error where "Walkin' The Dog" appeared as "Walkin' The Dig", a flaw that was corrected in later reissues.

The story behind how they came to record this album has its own narrative. After being seen at Max's Kansas City by David Krebs and Steve Leber, who represented labels like Atlantic Records and Columbia Records, Clive Davis, the president of Columbia, was impressed, and the band signed with them in the summer of 1972. This first album, released in January 1973, was not an immediate success. However, over time, and especially thanks to the re-release of "Dream On" in 1976, the album began to resonate more strongly. Reviews of the time, such as that by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic, already pointed out that the album showed the foundations of what would become a fundamental band of 70s American Hard Rock. All compositions on the album are the work of Steven Tyler, except where otherwise specified.