Steamhammer

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Junior's Wailing 03:18 Tools
Lost You Too 03:32 Tools
Hold That Train 05:45 Tools
She Is the Fire 03:09 Tools
Passing Through 00:00 Tools
When All Your Friends Are Gone 00:00 Tools
Down the Highway 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know 00:00 Tools
Levinia 00:00 Tools
On Your Road 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thought 00:00 Tools
Mountains 00:00 Tools
Henry Lane 00:00 Tools
Contemporary Chick Con Song 00:00 Tools
Even The Clock 00:00 Tools
Walking Down the Road 00:00 Tools
Supposed To Be Free 00:00 Tools
Johnny Carl Morton 00:00 Tools
Contemporary Chick Con Song - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Leader of the Ring 00:00 Tools
Sunset Chase 00:00 Tools
Riding On The L&N 00:00 Tools
Another Travelling Tune 00:00 Tools
Turn Around 00:00 Tools
Water (Part One) 00:52 Tools
Autumn Song 04:03 Tools
Twenty-Four Hours 07:30 Tools
Down Along the Grove 00:42 Tools
Water (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
6/8 for Amiran 00:00 Tools
Windmill 00:00 Tools
For Against 00:00 Tools
Fran And Dee Take A Ride 00:00 Tools
Riding on the L & N 00:00 Tools
Twenty Four Hours 00:00 Tools
Penumbra 00:00 Tools
Telegram 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thought - Gophers Song 00:00 Tools
Blues for Passing People 00:00 Tools
Water (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Water (Part Two) 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing [Single Version] - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Supposed To Be Free - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Telegram (Nature's Mischief) 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing, Single Version (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Windmill (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing (single version) 00:00 Tools
Johnny Carl Morton - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Passing Through - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Event the Clock 00:00 Tools
Sunset Chase - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Turn Around - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Penumbra: Entrance / Battlements / Passage to Remorse / Sightless Substance / Mortal Thought 00:00 Tools
Another Travelling Tune - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Lost You Too - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Water - Part Two 00:00 Tools
For Amiran - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Down Along The Grove - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Water (Part One) - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing [Single Version] 00:00 Tools
Fran And Dee Take A Ride - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Windmill - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Twenty-Four Hours - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People - Remastered 00:00 Tools
She Is In The Fire - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Even The Clock - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Down The Highway - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Penumbra: Entrance / Battlements / Passage To Remorse / Sightless Substance / Mortal Thought - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thought (Gophers Song) 00:00 Tools
Junior Wailing [Single Version] 00:00 Tools
Penumbra a) Entrace b) Battlements c) Passage To Remorse d) Sightless Substance e) Moral Thought 00:00 Tools
Water, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
When All Your Friends Are Gone - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
On The Road - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Telegram (Nature's Mischief) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Fran & Dee Take A Ride 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing Single Version 00:00 Tools
Water (Part Two) - Digitally Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
For Against - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Riding on the L&N [Live] 00:00 Tools
Water 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing, Single Version 00:00 Tools
for Amiran 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
On the road 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Windmill [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Six Eight For Amiran 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
Water, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing [Single Version] (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Windmill (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
penumbra (Pt.1-5) 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Penumbra: Entrance/Battlements/Passage to Remorse/Sightless Substance/M 00:00 Tools
Junior´s Wailing, Single Version 00:00 Tools
Passing Through (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Contemporary Chick Con Song (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Supposed To Be Free (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Junior´s Wailing 00:00 Tools
Riding On The L&N - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Junior Wailing - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Johnny Carl Morton (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Fran an Dee Take a Ride 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Turn Around (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Sunset Chase (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Windmill [*] 00:00 Tools
Riding On the LN 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thought - Remastered 00:00 Tools
She Is In The Fire - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mountains - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Another Travelling Tune (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Water (Part One) (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Down Along The Grove (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Windmill (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Six Eight For Aamiran 00:00 Tools
For Amiran (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Fran And Dee Take A Ride (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Lost You Too - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Lost You Too (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thouight 00:00 Tools
Walking Down The Road - Remastered 00:00 Tools
When All Your Friends Are Gone - Remastered 00:00 Tools
She Is In The Fire (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Twenty Four HoursWater Part I 00:00 Tools
Twenty- Four Hours 00:00 Tools
Even The Clock - Remastered 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
6 8 For Amiran 00:00 Tools
You'll Never Know - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Water, Part One 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Autumn Song [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
louisiana blues 00:00 Tools
Hold That Train - Remastered 00:00 Tools
On Your Road - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Levinia - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Penumbra (Entrace / Battlements / Passage to Remorse / Sightless Substance / Moral Thought) 00:00 Tools
02 - Johnny Carl Morton 00:00 Tools
Twenty-Four Hours (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
05 - Turn Around 00:00 Tools
Penumbra: Entrance / Battlements / Passage To Remorse / Sightless Substance / Mortal Thought (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Down The Highway (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing [1969] 00:00 Tools
On The Road (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Water [Part Two] 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Water part two 00:00 Tools
10 - Fran And Dee Take A Ride 00:00 Tools
09 - Another Travelling Tune 00:00 Tools
Junior's Waiting 00:00 Tools
Water, Pt. One 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Have Thought (Gopher's Song) 00:00 Tools
For Against (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
03 - Sunset Chase 00:00 Tools
Even The Clock (Digitally Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
07 - Passing Through 00:00 Tools
Water Part 2 00:00 Tools
Junior's Wailing (Single Version - Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
windmill (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Water (Part One) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Telegram (Nature's Mischief) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Passing People (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Battlements 00:00 Tools
Hold That Train [Live] 00:00 Tools
6,8 For Amiran 00:00 Tools
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The extraordinary blues-rock band Steamhammer was formed at the end of 1968 in Worthing. Martin Quittenton (g) and Kieran White (voc., g, harm.) came out of the British folk circuit. Quittenton had worked together with the Liverpool Scene and, like the other members Martin Pugh (g), Steve Davy (b) and Michael Rushton (dr), had played with numerous R&B groups. Blues legend Freddie King ordered Steamhammer as his backing band on tour through Great Britain. Come Spring time, 1969, they signed a record contract with CBS. The first album, "Steamhammer", was a mixture of classic blues by B.B.King and Eddie Boyd and modern blues written by White and Quittenton with the help of Pugh. At the end of the British blues boom, only a few hardcore fans took interest on the finest lyrical blues-rock statement of the century. Not selling as many records as they'd hoped to, Steamhammer nevertheless became a top European open-air attraction, mainly due to their brilliant live performance. For over two hours each night they would indulge in wide excursions in instrumental improvisations, embodied by the impressive guitar riffage of Martin Pugh and the sensitive harmonica of Kieran White. In the Summer of 1969, Quittenton left the band, followed by drummer Michael Rushton. They were replaced by Steve Jollife (sax, fl.) and Mick Bradley. Jollife's feel for precise arrangements and jazz influences especially inspired the recording of Steamhammer's second, "Mk II", album. Overstepping the boundaries of traditional blues forms, they unleashed their own musical creativity and imagination without resorting to any technical trickery. These highly professional and creative musicians performed many live shows at various festivals in Scandinavia, West Germany and the Netherlands. On the continent, it turned out, they had become more popular than in England. In the Summer of 1970, Steamhammer recorded their "definitive album" (rock session), called "Mountains", as a quartet. White, Pugh, Davy and Bradley were really working as a team and offering electrified white urban blues of highest quality. The live cut, "Riding On The L&N", is one of the highlights of the "Mountains" album, which contains straight-ahead blues numbers with a healthy dose of rock'n'roll. It was only with the release of this album that Steamhammer began to be noticed by the rock world. After the Altamont and Fehmarn fiascos, the era of open-air events of such calibre was ended at least for quite a while. In the late Summer of that same year, Steamhammer toured for the last time in Germany and the Benelux. The following Autumn, the line-up changed again. Only Pugh and Bradley stayed together and engaged ex-Renaissance member Louis Cennamo (b) for the recording of one more album. "Speech" was recorded in the Winter of 1971 and released in the beginning of 1972. By that time, Steamhammer had ceased to exsist. "Speech" was a disappointing, partly chaotic album, and the negative reception of the record led to the end of the group's popularity. Mick Bradley died in February 1972 of leukemia. Kieran White released a solo LP, "Open Door", in 1975 and Martin Pugh and Louis Cennamo put together a cult band Armageddon (with Keith Relf on vocals), which released only one album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.