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Various Artists - Firepoint (1969)

Track listing:
  1. See Me Running Mike Cooper 2:35
  2. I Wouldn't Mind Gerald Moore 3:39
  3. No Whiskey Tom Robinson 2:42
  4. Here's To The Future Kid Mike Cooper 3:11
  5. No More Doggin' Dave Kelly 3:02
  6. City Women Duffy Power 2:27
  7. Oh Really Mike Cooper 1:42
  8. Leaf Without A Tree Sam Mitchell 4:58
  9. Big Boss Man Tom Robinson 4:12
  10. Sunflower Bob Hall 3:04
  11. Firepoint Bob Hall 0:32
  12. Halfway Duffy Power 2:21

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Robert 'Bob' Hall (born 13 June 1942, in West Byfleet, Surrey), is a leading English boogie-woogie pianist. A long-time collaborator of Alexis Korner, he also performed regularly with bottleneck bluesman Dave Kelly and his sister, Jo Ann Kelly.

CareerFounder member of several British blues bands including The Groundhogs, Tramp, The Sunflower Blues Band and The De Luxe Blues Band, Hall has worked and recorded with artists such as Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, and is also a long serving member of Savoy Brown, and guests with The Blues Band, featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly and Tom McGuinness.

Hall was also a founder-member, with Ian Stewart, of the Boogie Woogie Big Band which later became Rocket 88, and which included Hal Singer, Don Weller and Dick Morrissey among many leading jazzmen, together with Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner, and Jack Bruce.

As a sideman, he has accompanied such blues names as John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Chuck Berry, Homesick James, Lightnin' Slim, Lowell Fulsom, Charlie Musselwhite, Snooky Pryor, J. B. Hutto, Lazy Lester, Dave Peabody, Baby Boy Warren, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Eddie Taylor, Big John Wrencher, Mickey Baker, and Eddy Clearwater.

David 'Dave' Kelly (born 13 March 1947, Streatham, South London), is a British blues singer, guitarist and composer, who has been active on the British blues music scene since the 1960s. He has performed with the John Dummer Blues Band, Tramp, The Blues Band, and his own Dave Kelly Band.

His sister, Jo Ann Kelly, was also a blues singer, and she and Dave participated in many musical projects together.

Kelly is a disciple of Fred McDowell.

Duffy Power (born Raymond Leslie Howard, 9 September 1941, Fulham, South West London) is an English blues and rock and roll singer, who achieved some success in the 1960s and has performed and recorded intermittently since then.

CareerHe was discovered in 1959 by impresario Larry Parnes, singing at a talent show with his group Duffy and the Dreamers. He was renamed Duffy Power in the style of Parnes' other discoveries, such as Billy Fury, Marty Wilde, Vince Eager and Georgie Fame. He recorded a series of cover versions of such songs as "Dream Lover" and "Ain't She Sweet" as singles for the Fontana label over the next two years, but unlike some of his stablemates failed to achieve commercial success.

Duffy left Parnes in 1961, suffering from depression. However, he was introduced by a friend to the growing London blues club scene, and in 1963 teamed up with Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and John McLaughlin to record "I Saw Her Standing There", one of the first cover versions of a Beatles song. He continued to record for Parlophone Records through the 1960s, both as a solo artist, often backed by top session musicians, and with Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, but the critical acclaim for his performances failed to be matched by sales.

Power also worked as a session musician, and played on the soundtrack of the 1969 film, The Italian Job.

In 1972 he finally released a solo album, Duffy Power, on the GSF label (GSF 502), produced in conjunction with Andrew Loog Oldham and featuring Korner, Dana Gillespie and others. At around the same time, an album of tracks recorded in 1969 was issued on the Spark label. Although by this time he was widely recognised as an impressive singer, the albums again failed to sell.

01. Mike Cooper - See Me Running 2:30
02. G.T. Moore - I Wouldn't Mind 3:30
03. Tom Robinson - No Whiskey 2:40
04. Mike Cooper - Here's To The Future Kid 3:06
05. Dave Kelly - No More Doggin' 3:02
06. Duffy Power - City Women 1:40
07. Mike Cooper - Oh Really 1:40
08. Sam Mitchell - Leaf Without A Tree 4:55
09. Tom Robinson - Big Boss Man 4:12
10. Bob Hall - Sunflower 3:02
11. Bob Hall - Firepoint 0:30
12. Duffy Power - Halfway 2:30