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.