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• 64-track box set of post mod grooves and heavy British R&B.

• Focussing on music from the late 1960s and early 1970s that avoided Tolkien-esque fantasy and flower power, instead drawing inspiration from the jazz, blues and soul music of black America.

This musical journey takes the listener from the heavy Hammond organ groove of Deep Purple’s US hit ‘Hush’ to CCS’s funky ‘Brother’ via British blues from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, jazz rock from Manfred Mann Chapter Three, The Johnny Almond Music Machine and Satisfaction and the soulful vocals of Stevie Winwood, Sharon Tandy and Rod Stewart.

Key artists include Deep Purple, Sharon Tandy (backed by Fleur De Lys), Small Faces, Faces, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck (with Rod Stewart & Ronnie Wood), Georgie Fame, Stevie Winwood with both The Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, Mighty Baby, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Blodwyn Pig and Graham Bond.

Many musicians here had been through the British R&B and soul scenes including Satisfaction’s Derek Griffiths and Deep Purple’s Jon Lord and Keef Hartley with The Artwoods, Jeff Beck with The Yardbirds and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and Rod Stewart with Steampacket while Mighty Baby had evolved from The Action and Spooky Tooth from The V.I.P.s.

Tracklist

DISC ONE

1  Deep Purple – Hush

2  Sharon Tandy – Hold On

3  The Spencer Davis Group – I’m A Man

4  Love Affair – So Sorry

5  Spooky Tooth – Sunshine Help Me

6  Terry Reid – Tinker Tailor

7  The Creation – Midway Down

8  Love Sculpture – Think Of Love

9  The Lion Tamers – Speak Your Mind

10  John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Suspicions (Part One)

11  Traffic – Feelin’ Alright?

12  Fleetwood Mac – Shake Your Moneymaker

13  Chicken Shack – San-Ho-Zay

14  Small Faces – Song Of A Baker

15  The Attack – Feels Like Flying

16  Curiosity Shoppe – Baby I Need You

17  Wynder K. Frog – Jumping Jack Flash

18  Free – Trouble On Double Time

19  Jeff Beck – Let Me Love You

20  The Alan Bown! – Friends In St. Louis

21  Colosseum - Walking In The Park

22  Blodwyn Pig – Sing Me A Song That I Know

23  Jethro Tull – Serenade To A Cuckoo

DISC TWO

1  Don Fardon – I’m Alive

2  Georgie Fame – Somebody Stole My Thunder

3  The Exceptions – The Eagle Flies On Friday

4  Manfred Mann Chapter Three – One Way Glass

5  Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity – Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)

6  Deep Purple – Emmaretta

7  Galliard – Skillet

8  Savoy Brown – Waiting In The Bamboo Grove

9  Mott The Hoople – You Really Got Me

10  The Open Mind – Magic Potion

11  Mighty Baby – Egyptian Tomb

12  Blonde On Blonde – Conversationally Making The Grade

13  Blue Mink – Blue Mink

14  Keef Hartley Band – Don’t Be Afraid

15  Bobak Jons Malone – Mona Lose

16  The Shadows – My Babe

17  Caravan – If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You

18  Killing Floor – My Mind Can Ride Easy

19  Rock Workshop – Born In The City

20  Terry Reid – Marking Time

21  Pussy – G.E.A.B.

22  Ace Kefford Stand – For Your Love

DISC THREE

1 Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Fill Your Head With Laughter 2 Satisfaction – Call You Liar, Liar

3 Affinity – I Am And So Are You

4  Clouds - Cold Sweat

5  McDonald & Giles – Extract From Tomorrow’s People – The Children Of Today

6  Faces – Pineapple & The Monkey

7  Hardin & York – Tomorrow Today

8  Juicy Lucy – Nadine

9  Fuzzy Duck – More Than I Am

10  Johnny Almond Music Machine – Solar Level

11  Blodwyn Pig – Variations On Nanos

12  The Kinks – Lola (Instrumental)

13  Status Quo – (April) Spring, Summer And Wednesdays

14  East Of Eden – Marcus Junior

15  Walrus – Who Can I Trust

16  Norman Haines Band – I Really Need A Friend

17  Mick Abrahams – Greyhound Bus

18  Graham Bond With Magick – I Put My Magick On You

19  CCS - Brother