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THE ARTWOODS "Art's Gallery" (Top Sounds TSLP 007)
Brand new limited edition LP on 180gram VINYL—only 500 copies pressed!
The ARTWOODS—Art Wood, Derek Griffiths, Malcolm Pool, Keef Hartley and future Deep Purple organist Jon Lord—recorded for Decca, Parlophone and Fontana from 1964 to 1967 and their Decca back catalogue in particular has been well documented by retrospective re-issues and compilations. The thirteen canvasses in 'Art's Gallery' however are sourced completely from three live radio sessions that the ARTWOODS recorded for the BBC during 1965 and early 1966 and were not known to still exist. 
The British Broadcasting Corporation saved a number of tracks the group played for the Beeb and these have since appeared on the Cherry Red 'Steady Getting It' set; the rest of the ARTWOODS' radiophonic output, however, was not kept by the BBC with the tapes being erased or junked. Thanks to diligent home taping by a particularly keen fan at the time, the ARTWOODS' music for radio on 'Art's Gallery' can again be heard in public for the first time in over fifty years.  And besides welcome live takes of familiar favourites such as 'Oh My Love', 'She Knows What To Do' and 'Don't Cry No More', there's a spoil of cool numbers that the band never committed to disc. There's the upbeat jazz of 'That Healin' Feelin' and 'Smack Dab In The Middle', the slow burning blues of 'How Long, How Long Blues' and 'Black Mountain Blues', the soulful grooves of 'Out Of Sight' and 'I Got A Woman' and the pure mod suave of 'Comin' Home Baby' (and more!).
Superbly presented in front-laminated sleeve with 16-page booklet.
Tracks:— GEORGE MELLY INTRODUCES THE ARTWOODS—Broadcast on JAZZ BEAT - 8th January 1966 WORK, WORK, WORK—Broadcast on JAZZ BEAT - 8th January 1966 OH MY LOVE—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 OUT OF SIGHT—Broadcast on HOLIDAY POP - 19th April 1965 I AIN'T GOT NOTHING BUT THE BLUES—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 I'VE GOT A WOMAN—Broadcast on HOLIDAY POP - 19th April 1965 SHE KNOWS WHAT TO DO—Broadcast on HOLIDAY POP - 19th April 1965 SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 THAT HEALIN' FEELIN'—Broadcast on JAZZ BEAT - 8th January 1966 BRIAN MATTHEW READS A REQUEST—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 COMING HOME BABY—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 BLACK MOUNTAIN BLUES—Broadcast on SATURDAY CLUB - 13th March 1965 HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES—Broadcast on HOLIDAY POP - 19th April 1965 OH MY LOVE—Broadcast on HOLIDAY POP - 19th April 1965 DON'T CRY NO MORE—Broadcast on JAZZ BEAT - 8th January 1966 GEORGE MELLY ENDS THE PROGRAMME—Broadcast on JAZZ BEAT - 8th January 1966