Artist: BAND OF JOY [ROBERT PLANT]
Album: BAND OF JOY REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1970/ 2005
Media type: CD

The Band Of Joy are best known as the outfit that gave Robert Plant and John Bonham their leg-up on the stairway to Zeppelin. Yet while that line-up relied on its live reputation to become a Midlands legend, a revised Band Of Joy finally made it to the studio in the late 1970s, having re-grouped to play benefit gigs with their old singer for the families of a local band involved in a fatal motorway crash.

The gigs didn't happen as planned, but an eponymous album on Polydor was followed by a barely-released second, both of which stand as undiscovered gems.

Guitar-player Paul Lockey finally reveals the secrets behind the second coming in authoritative sleeve notes. This album is very collectable, has never been on CD before and contains one track that has never been released before

TRACKLIST:

01 3am In The City
02 Woman
03 Overseer
04 So Cold
05 Live Bait (To Highway 8)
06 Like A River
07 Please Call Home
08 She's The One
09 Shock House
10 Lonely Nights

LINE-UP:

1967-68 lineup:
Robert Plant — lead vocals
Kevyn Gammond — guitar, vocals
Chris Brown — organ
Paul Lockey — bass guitar, guitar, vocals
John Bonham — drums

1968 last lineup:
Robert Plant - lead vocals
John Bonham - drums
John Hill - bass guitar
Mick Strode - lead guitar

Roadies:
Noddy Holder (SLADE)
Ross Crutchley
Steven Latham (aka Big Bruce)
Ben Randle