The Late Great Keef Hartley

By the late 1960's I was 'into' all sorts of music including Blues.  One of my first blues albums was 'The Blues Alone' by the godfather of British blues, John Mayall.  Still a favourite album, the one 'exception' to the concept of 'Alone' on this album was the inclusion on a few tracks of Keef Hartley on drums.  I have always been the nerdy sort who looks at alll the details on an album; who is playing, where recorded, who produced, engineered, etc.  So when I saw the announcement of the release of Halfbreed (I think in Melody Maker), I immediately recognised the name and thought well, if John Mayall likes him he's got to be good.... and he was... in spades.

 I saw him live at one of the many gigs on the University/College circuit prevalent in the late 60's early '70s and he was magic.  Members of his band at various times included greats such as Henry Lowther, Jon Hiesman and Johnny Almond

Halfbreed and Battle of NW6 are in my collection... and I have a number of others on CD; still really good.  I might just be selling the CD collection soon.... might....