Live At The BBC Plus Other Innovations

Duffy Power

Live At The BBC Plus Other Innovations

The great unsung British Blues hero recorded live at the BBC together with previously unreleased studio tracks

The most comprehensive collection of Duffy Power’s BBC recordings available with sound restoration by Eroc
Showcases Duffy in a variety styles and line-ups with backing by the Graham Bond Quartet, the Fentones and CWT
Disc Three comprises unreleased studio recordings from the 90s/00s which cement his reputation as a Bluesman
Liner notes by Duffy collaborator/producer Pete Brown also include detailed annotation by compiler and archivist Colin Harper

Duffy Power (1941-2014) was among Britain’s first wave of late 50s rock’n’rollers, a protégé of impresario Larry Parnes alongside Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and Georgie Fame. In 1963 a musical epiphany saw him become one of Britain’s greatest bluesmen – a singer, songwriter and harmonica virtuoso whose career thereafter would be a rollercoaster of amazing recordings, off/on record deals, and periods of withdrawal before bowing out of music-making in 1973. In the mid-60s, Duffy recorded with future members of Cream, Pentangle and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He never had any problem impressing fellow musicians, but a wider appreciation of his work would only come in the era of CD reissues and anthologies. This 3CD Live At The BBC set adds to the legend of Duffy Power. Beginning with a 1963 session backed by the Graham Bond Quartet (Bond, John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker), it more than doubles the content on Power’s only previous BBC set, Sky Blues (2001), adding performances from the 60s and 70s – including a 1971 Mike Raven session backed by Rod Argent – and ending with his last-known BBC session, a full-band set in 1997 for Paul Jones. In between, we have blues, jazz, soul and stadium rock, in the form of a 1973 session for John Peel with hard rock trio CWT. The third disc adds 11 non-BBC tracks (nine previously unreleased, two rare) from two periods of potential comeback sessions in 1995 and 2000-01, including four original songs not previously published. Songwriting legend Pete Brown, who produced the 1995 session, provides the booklet essay, with additional notes from Colin Harper.

Tracklist

CD 1

Disc One Live At The BBC 1963-71

Unknown show, mid-1963
Duffy Power with the Graham Bond Quartet
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. I Got A Woman
3. Summertime
4. Hallelujah, I Love Her So

Saturday Club (probably), 1965
Duffy Power with the Fentones
5. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
6. Money Honey

The Blues Roll On, Radio 3, 27 March 1968
7. Gin House Blues
8. Alexis Korner intro
9. The La La Song

Blues Is Where You Hear It, World Service 8 July 1970
10. Every Day Since You’ve Been Gone
11. Halfway
12. That’s All Right Mama
13. Swan Song
14. Hell Hound

Mike Raven Show, Radio 1, 27 March 1971
15. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
16. Little Boy Blue
17. Man In The Sky
18. Swan Song
19. Sally Plain

Mike Raven Show, Radio 1, 1 May 1971
Recorded as Duffy Power’s Thing
20. Milk Cow Blues

CD 2

Disc Two Live At The BBC 1971-97

Mike Raven Show, Radio 1 September 1971
1. Give Me One
2. City Women
3. Louise
4. The River
5. Baby Let’s Play House
6. I Saw Her Standing There

John Peel (Alexis Korner sitting in), Radio 1, 3 September 1973
Duffy Power with CWT
7. Dusty Road
8. Love’s Gonna Go
9. Glad That You’re Not Me
10. Little Soldiers

Paul Jones Rhythm & Blues Show, Radio 2, 25 August 1994
With Dick Heckstall-Smith
11. Sky Blues
12. Duffy & Dick Heckstall-Smith interview
13. Little Boy Blue
14. Every Day Since You’ve Been Gone
15. Duffy interview

Paul Jones Rhythm & Blues Show, Radio 2, 17 July 1997
16. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
17. Rags And Old Iron
18. Feeling Good
19. My Soul’s On Fire

Bonus (lo-fi)
Pop Goes The Beatles, 16 July 1963
Duffy Power with the Graham Bond Quartet
20. I Got A Woman
21. I Saw Her Standing There

Saturday Club, 10 October 1964
Duffy Power with the Fentones
22. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
23. Brian Matthew interview with Duffy
24. Where Am I?
25. Roll Over Beethoven

CD 3

Disc Three Unreleased studio recordings

Unreleased studio session, January 1995
1. Someone Like You (Camping With Billie)
2. Stormy July

Studio sessions, 2000–2001
3. Out On The Western Plain
4. I Can’t Chase The Devil
5. I Am Lonely
6. Stormy July
7. Nine Lives Gone (alt mix)
8. Will I Ever Be The Same?
9. Out On The Western Plain
10. One Day At A Time
11. I Can’t Chase The Devil