British Blues worth listening to:-

[Adrian S]

I came across this band form the late 60’s and 70’s a week or so ago, Steamhammer. Well worth have a listen to their first two albums if your into Rock/Blues.

Reflection

[Adrian S]

2nd Album is called ‘Mountains’

[sunjamr]

Wow, there are a lot of bands I’ve never heard of.

Sunjamr Steve

[Manfred M]

„Junior‘s Wailing“ was one of the favorite songs of my youth. If you want to listen in, take this one.

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[GnLguy]

Hey Adrian
Thanks for posting, I love finding these obscure recordings that most have forgotten about or never heard of.
With the British Blues Invasion being it what it was, there were a lot of bands trying to make but with Clapton, Cream, Stones, Beck, Page, etc sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, it was hard

Here are 3 to add to the list.
1. Climax Blues Band – 1st few albums were exceptional bluesy rock & roll but as they moved into the 70’s their music progressed into a more mainstream disco type sound, kinda faded from having a radio presence
Peter Haycock was the guitarist who continued with the band until he passed away in 2013. The band continued with some of the original members until 2022 and a band is playing their music without any original members
2. Black Cat Bones – formed by Paul Kossoff & Simon Kirke but both of them left to form Free before their album Barbed Wire Sandwich was recorded. It doesn’t take long to hear the influence on the band by Koss; definitely had his sound. The guitarist after Kossoff left was Rod Price, who ended up in Foghat
3. Chicken Shack – you may recognize the voice on the 1st song – Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Chicken Shack was a trio consisting of Stan Webb, Andy Sylvester & Christine Perfect (later Christine McVie).

[Adrian S]

Climax Blues Band, and Chicken Shack really good especially

Another super blues rock is

May Blitz

<img src=“https://www.discogs.com/master/23626-May-Blitz-May-Blitz/image/SW1hZ2U6MTAxOTQ4NjY”

[Adrian S]

The Chicken Shack album I was trying to display is ‘ OK Ken’

[John A]

Fab! Thank you.

[Mark H]

Some more from the Sixties club & college scene (lead players in brackets)

Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (John Dmochowski)
Keef Hartley Band (Miller Anderson)
The Groundhogs (Tony McFee)
Blodwyn Pig (Mick Abrahams)
Taste (Rory Gallagher)

… and a lot of other bands that had blues numbers in their repertoire.
At that time psychedelia was seeping into every band’s set but the blues hung in there.

Thanks for raking the outer beaches of my memory banks!

[Adrian S]

Some great bands there Mark, especially The Groundhogs, anyone into Blues/Rock really should listen to ‘Split’ by them, an all time favourite of mine.

[Mark H]

And lest we forget the acoustic blues players on the UK folk club & festival scene,

Jo Ann Kelley – her recording of Special Rider Blues got me seriously into Skip James. Often seen at festivals.
John Martyn – very bluesy live, his creativity took him to a lot of other places later. Likewise, a hard worker on the gig circuits.
Mike Cooper – from my part of England (Thames Valley), very influential in the area and across the British Isles, great player I saw him many times.
Roy Harper – festival favorite, tres entertaining on a good night.
Davey Graham – one of the first to embrace finger style blues in the UK, and expanded out to a lot of other genres. Never saw him play regrettably.
Wizz Jones
Ralph McTell

And so on, apologies to those I’ve missed. It was a hotbed of musical influences. At that time, my best buddy’s father ran the local folk club. Barn, straw bales to sit on, it was great. I got to see all this stuff every month.

[GnLguy]

Speaking of Joann Kelly, Stefan Grossman lived in Europe for nearly 20 years and recorded with her on at least one album.
Joann was an artist that left us far too early in her life

https://youtu.be/qkJpWwbOLUY?si=soILXNKITldeeoJJ

[Mark H]

Nice one GnL, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!

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