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• Comprehensive 3CD set featuring all of The Artwoods’ A and B sides, plus four previously unissued early acetate recordings by the Art Wood Combo
• Also includes several BBC radio sessions with unique tracks and a long-lost live recording from Denmark at tail-end of their career
• The compilation benefits from the involvement of the band’s guitarist Derek Griffiths
and basisst Malcolm Pool, plus legendary blues producer Mike Vernon
Back in the mid-‘60s, The Artwoods were one of the most vital, impressive R&B bands on the circuit, fronted by Art Wood (elder brother of future Faces/Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie) and also boasting future Deep Purple organist Jon Lord, renowned drummer Keef Hartley, guitarist Derek Griffiths and bassist Malcolm Pool. Between 1964 and 1967, the band recorded seven singles, the ultra-rare EP ‘Jazz In Jeans’ and a nearly as scarce LP, ‘Art Gallery’, mostly for Decca but also for Parlophone and Fontana (the last under the pseudonym St Valentines Day Massacre). Their records have long been coveted by fans of ‘60s beat, R&B and Mod music. Keep Lookin’ is the most comprehensive anthology of The Artwoods’ recordings to date.
Tracklist
DISC ONE:
The Art Wood Combo
1 Chicago Calling
2 Hoochie Coochie Man
3 Talkin’ ’bout You
4 Kansas City The Artwoods
5 Sweet Mary
6 If I Ever Get My Hands on You
7 Oh My Love
8 Big City
9 Goodbye Sisters
10 She Knows What to Do
11 I Take What I Want
12 I’m Looking for a Saxophonist Doubling French Horn Wearing Size 37 Boots
13 These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
14 A Taste of Honey
15 Our Man Flint
16 Routine
17 I Feel Good
18 Molly Anderson’s Cookery Book
19 What Shall I Do
20 In the Deep End
St Valentine’s Day Massacare
21 Brother Can You Spare a Dime
22 Al’s Party
The Artwoods – BBC Sessions
23 Smack Dab In The Middle
24 Interview
25 Goodbye Sisters
26 She Knows What To Do
27 Can You Hear Me
28 Interview
29 I Take What I Want 30 Jump Back
DISC TWO:
1 Can You Hear Me
2 Down in the Valley
3 Things Get Better
4 Walk on the Wild Side
5 I Keep Forgettin’
6 Keep Lookin’
7 One More Heartache
8 Work Work Work
9 Be My Lady
10 If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
11 Stop and Think It Over
12 Don’t Cry No More
BBC Sessions
13 One More Heartache
14 Interview
15 I Feel Good
16 Things Get Better
17 Stop Think It Over
18 In the Deep End
19 What Shall I Do
20 Daytripper
21 Steady Getting’ It
22 Devil With a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly
23 In the Deep End
DISC THREE:
1 Steady Gettin’ It
2 Keep Looking
3 I Need Your Loving
4 Love Have Mercy-Bony Moronie-Love Have Mercy
5 Be My Lady
6 Daytripper
7 How Long Blues
8 Shake
9 Tic Tac Toe
10 Song of the Journey Man
11 Black Mountain
12 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction