In a December 2000 interview with magazine, Harrison explained: 'For the jams, I didn't want to just throw them in the cupboard, and yet at the same time it wasn't part of the record that's why I put it on a separate label to go in the package as a kind of bonus.' The title for 'I Remember Jeep' originated from the name of Clapton's dog, Jeep, and 'Thanks for the Pepperoni' came from a line on a comedy album. Apple Jam On the original 's third disc, entitled Apple Jam, four of the five tracks – 'Out of the Blue', 'Plug Me In', 'I Remember Jeep' and 'Thanks for the Pepperoni' – are improvised built around minimal changes, or in the case of 'Out of the Blue', a single-chord.
Rob Mitchum of describes the album as 'dark-tinged Krishna folk-rock'. The recurrent lyrical themes on the album are Harrison's spiritual quest, as it would be throughout his solo career, and friendship, particularly the failure of relationships among the Beatles. The melodies of 'Isn't It a Pity' and 'Beware of Darkness' have aspects of, and on 'My Sweet Lord', Harrison combined the Hindu tradition with gospel. Harrison wrote ', which was one of a number of Dylan-influenced compositions on the album, towards the end of production on All Things Must Pass, as a tribute to the who had kept a vigil outside the studios where he was working. Shortly before beginning work on All Things Must Pass, Harrison attended a Dylan session in New York on, during which he acquired a new song of Dylan's, '. The latter was another composition influenced by Harrison's association with the Radha Krishna Temple, and was written while some of the devotees were staying with him at Friar Park. Other songs on All Things Must Pass, all written during the first half of 1970, include ', which reflected Harrison's adoption of chanting through his involvement with the Hare Krishna movement ', a tribute to the original owner of Friar Park and '. ' resulted from Harrison's early experiments with, a technique that Bramlett had introduced him to, in order to cover for guitarist 's departure from the Friends line-up.
Harrison's musical activities outside the band during 1969 inspired other compositions on the album: ' came to him while driving to a London session that spring for Preston's album ' was Harrison's message of encouragement to Dylan, written the night before the latter's comeback performance at the and Harrison began ' as an exercise in writing a gospel song during Delaney & Bonnie's stopover in Copenhagen in December 1969. In January 1970, Harrison invited American producer to participate in the recording of Lennon's single ' This association led to Spector being given the task of salvaging the Beatles' rehearsal tapes, released officially as the album (1970), and later co-producing All Things Must Pass. As well as embracing the branch of, Harrison produced two hit singles during 1969–70 by the UK-based devotees, credited as. In addition, Harrison identified his involvement with the as providing 'another piece of a jigsaw puzzle' that represented the spiritual journey he had begun in 1966. He also recorded with artists such as and, and accompanied Clapton on a short tour with 's soul revue. His activities during 1969 included producing signings and, two American singer-songwriters whose and roots proved as influential on All Things Must Pass as the music of the Band. Ad for Harrison's soundtrack (1968) Once back in London, and with his compositions continually overlooked for inclusion on releases by the Beatles, Harrison found creative fulfilment in extracurricular projects that, in the words of his musical biographer, Simon Leng, served as an 'emancipating force' from the restrictions imposed on him in the band.
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