2CD Set featuring the Best Of Keef Hartley. English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own eponymous band, known as the Keef Hartley Band or the Keef Hartley Big Band, and played at Woodstock This collection of Keef’s work is probably the most comprehensive of its time, feating all of his best known works.n Originally seen as a double LP German only release we have secured 11 bonus tracks to make it a fantastic double CD of Keef’s best known works. Keith Hartley’s career began as the replacement for Ringo Starr as a drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpool-based band. Subsequently he played and recorded with The Artwoods, then achieved some notability as John Mayall’s drummer (including his role as the only musician, other than Mayall, to play on Mayall’s 1967 „solo“ record The Blues Alone[4]). He then formed The Keef Hartley (Big) Band, mixing elements of jazz, blues, and rock and roll; the group played at Woodstock in 1969.

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© Ken Hensley, 2013
All songs published by EMI Music Publishing Limited
This release ℗ & © 2013 HEAR NO EVIL Recordings Ltd. under license from Ken Hensley
Mixed at Sacramento Studios, Alicante, Spain
Mastering: At Metropolis, London

This project was recorded during our short tour of Germany and Switzerland in late 2012. These were the last live shows for this particular incarnation of „Live Fire“, so it’s cool that we got this piece of our collective and individual musical history recorded! It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it…
Ken

– Tracks 1-1 to 1-10 originally released as [url=/master/23357]Harvest SHVL 763[/url] in December 1969.
– Track 1-11 released as single [url=/master/557254]HAR 5011[/url], 13 April 1970.
– Tracks 1-12 to 1-15 BBC Top Gear Session, recorded 10 February 1970 for BBC Radio 1 at BBC Maida Vale Studios. First transmitted 28 February 1970.
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– Tracks 2-1 to 2-9 originally released as [url=/master/79661]Harvest SHSP 4005[/url] in October 1970.
– Tracks 2-10 & 2-11 A & B sides to [url=/master/557245]Butterfly Dance single (HAR 5027)[/url], released 9 October 1970.
– Tracks 2-12 to 2-14 BBC Alan Black Session, 20 May 1970, recorded for BBC Radio 1 at Playhouse Theatre, London. First transmitted 3 July 1970.
– Tracks 2-15 to 2-17 BBC Top Gear Session, 9 June 1970.
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– Tracks 3-1 to 3-8 originally released as [url=/master/23338]Harvest SHVL 800[/url] in January 1972.
– Track 3-9 B side to [url=/master/554253]Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes single (HAR 5042)[/url] released 17 August 1971.
– Track 3-10 B side to [url=/master/822400]reissued Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes single (SHSM 2005)[/url] released February 1976.
– Tracks 3-11 to 3-16 BBC Bob Harris Session, 17 May 1972, recorded for BBC Radio 1 at Aeolian Hall. Transmitted 12 June 1972.
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– Tracks 4-1 to 4-9 originally released as [url=/master/23365]Harvest SHVL 807[/url] in May 1973.
– Track 4-10 B side to [url=/release/4327096]Oh! What A Dream single (HAR 5064)[/url] released 10 November 1972.
– Track 4-11 & 4-12 A & B side to [url=/master/248343]Caribbean Moon single (HAR 5071)[/url] released 19 April 1973.
– Tracks 4-13 to 4-15 BBC Bob Harris Session, 11 April 1973.
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– Tracks 5-1 to 5-11 originally released as [url=/master/23377]Island ILPS 9263[/url] in May 1974.
– Track 5-12 B released as a [url=/master/702806]single (Island WIP 6194)[/url] in February 1974.
– Track 5-13 & 5-14 A & B sides to [url=/master/345996]After The Show single[/url] released in 1974.
– Tracks 5-15 to 5-18 BBC John Peel Session, 9 July 1974. Recorded for BBC Radio One’s John Peel Show at Langham Studio on 9 July 1974. Transmitted 30 July 1974.
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Special 5CD jewel case
12p booklet with cover images and tracklisting.

℗ 2012 The copyright in this compilation is owned by EMI Records Ltd. © EMI Records Ltd.
Made in the European Union.
Tracks 1-1 to 1-11, 2-1 to 2-11, 3-1 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-12 Digital remasters ℗2003 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd.
Tracks 1-12 to 1-15, 2-12 to 2-14, 3-11 to 3-16, 4-13 to 4-15 ℗2010 BBC. Tracks 2-15 to 2-17 ℗2012 BBC. Released by arrangement with BBC Music.

Published by Warner Chappell Ltd. except
track 1-7 published by Rough Trade Publishing Co.

The catalog number 50999-956509-2-0 is printed on the discs as catalog number of the set.

Recorded at Marlborough Farms, Brooklyn; Wavelab, Tucson, AZ; Eastcote, London; Yip Jump, Glasgow.
Creative Consultant Bernard Macmahon.

Inner sleeve with lyrics.