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Nick Pickett - The John Dummer Blues Band - Blue (1972)

Track listing:
  1. If I Could Keep From Laughing 6:44
  2. Medicine Weasel 4:45
  3. Rambling Boy 3:11
  4. Me And Your Boogie 3:57
  5. Time Will Tell 3:23
  6. The End Game 3:48
  7. Me And The Lady 9:36
  8. Medicine Weasel 4:45
  9. The End Game 3:49

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This blues outfit formed in the Summer of 1967 in London. By the beginning of 1968, Tony Walker and Roger Pearce had both quit the music business. The next line-up was playing solid Chicago-styled blues. In July 1968, they turned professional. By now, Steve Rye had departed for Simon and Steve, and Tony McPhee, a friend of Dave Kelly's, came in on guitar. However, McPhee's stay was brief - a few month later he left to join The Groundhogs. Their two albums for Mercury are the most sought-after by collectors.

Dummer followed this with Music Band, a venture with violinist Nick Pickett, which achieved little here but had a French hit with “Nine By Nine”.

Shortening their name to John Dummer, they signed to Vertigo, recording “Blue”, with a cover designed by Roger Dean. The music was still competent blues-rock, but nowhere near as good as their earlier, late-sixties offerings on Mercury. Then, teaming up again with his original guitarist Dave Kelly, Dummer recorded “Oobleedooblee Jubilee” with a country-influenced band. This was a dreadful album, and Dummer went on to hit the skins for another appalling (if commercially successful) band, Darts.

01. If I Could Keep From Laughing
02. Medicine Weasel
03. Rambling Boy
04. Me And Your Boogie
05. Time Will Tell
06. The End Game
07. Me And The Lady
+ Bonus Tracks