Size: 156,0 MB
Time: 66:49
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1971/2022
Styles: R&B/Blues
Art: Front
1. Rosie (2:01)
2. Leaving Blues (3:03)
3. It's Funny (2:06)
4. God Bless The Child (4:13)
5. Coming Round No More (1:34)
6. Give Me One (1:54)
7. Mary Open The Door (3:34)
8. Help Me (2:33)
9. Louisiana Blues (3:32)
10. Little Boy Blue (2:26)
11. Exactly Like You (2:27)
12. One Night (2:30)
13. There You Go (2:26)
14. Red, White & Blue (2:13)
15. I'm so Glad You're Mine (Bonus Track) (2:35)
16. Little Girl (1965 Version) (Bonus Track) (2:19)
17. I Want You To Love Me (Bonus Track) (3:56)
18. Dollar Mamie (Bonus Track) (1:57)
19. Hound Dog (Alt. Take) (Bonus Track) (2:30)
20. Rags And Old Iron (Bonus Track) (2:59)
21. Little Boy Blue (1966 Version) (Bonus Track) (2:34)
22. Little Girl (1966 Version) (Bonus Track) (2:24)
23. Mary Open The Door (1966 Version) (Bonus Track) (2:41)
24. Just Stay Blue (Bonus Track) (3:06)
25. Hound Dog (Single Version) (Bonus Track) (3:04)
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 – an intensely soulful 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 CD era.
Despite a string of lavishly produced singles for Parlophone and an attempted comeback on CBS with the single ‘Hell Hound’/‘Hummingbird’ in 1970, Duffy’s first real success since the Larry Parnes era was the result of an ‘archive trawl’ LP in 1971 – among the first of its kind for a living artist. Entitled Innovations, the album brought together a dozen unreleased recordings made between 1965-67 for his publisher, Marquis Music, including several co-writes between Power and guitar hero and Melody Maker poll-winner John McLaughlin, who had revolutionised Miles Davis’ sound in the intervening years. Other musicians on the album – Jack Bruce, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox – had since found the sweet spot between commercial success and acclaimed progressive music, while drummers Phil Seamen and Red Reece were legends of British jazz.
Released on Transatlantic Records in February 1971, Innovations caused a sensation, selling 30,000 copies and seeing Duffy featured at length in the British music press, prompting CBS to reissue the ‘Hell Hound’ single (flipping the sides). In the CD era, 10 further recordings from these Marquis Music sessions filtered out on various anthologies. This ‘definitive edition’ brings all of this extraordinary body of work together for the first time and adds the one remaining stray: a fabulous Decca 45 A-side take of ‘Hound Dog’, released in January 1967 by Duffy’s Nucleus (Power, McLaughlin, Thompson, Cox), which has never before appeared on a Duffy Power CD.
Despite a string of lavishly produced singles for Parlophone and an attempted comeback on CBS with the single ‘Hell Hound’/‘Hummingbird’ in 1970, Duffy’s first real success since the Larry Parnes era was the result of an ‘archive trawl’ LP in 1971 – among the first of its kind for a living artist. Entitled Innovations, the album brought together a dozen unreleased recordings made between 1965-67 for his publisher, Marquis Music, including several co-writes between Power and guitar hero and Melody Maker poll-winner John McLaughlin, who had revolutionised Miles Davis’ sound in the intervening years. Other musicians on the album – Jack Bruce, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox – had since found the sweet spot between commercial success and acclaimed progressive music, while drummers Phil Seamen and Red Reece were legends of British jazz.
Released on Transatlantic Records in February 1971, Innovations caused a sensation, selling 30,000 copies and seeing Duffy featured at length in the British music press, prompting CBS to reissue the ‘Hell Hound’ single (flipping the sides). In the CD era, 10 further recordings from these Marquis Music sessions filtered out on various anthologies. This ‘definitive edition’ brings all of this extraordinary body of work together for the first time and adds the one remaining stray: a fabulous Decca 45 A-side take of ‘Hound Dog’, released in January 1967 by Duffy’s Nucleus (Power, McLaughlin, Thompson, Cox), which has never before appeared on a Duffy Power CD.
Innovations (Expanded Edition) mc
Innovations (Expanded Edition) zippy
2 comments:
This is great. Thanks, Red Rooster.
You're most welcome Pheebster, glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for your comment, it's appreciated.
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