DUFFY
Duffy – Just In Case You're Interested... 1971
Tracklist
Matchmaker
Long Lost Friend
Judgement Day
Amie
It's My Life
Rock Solid
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Tell Me
Riverside
Place To Lie
Scruffy Duffy 1973
Tracklist
Running Away
Changing My Ways
Ode To Clay
The 1959 Rock 'N' Roll Bop
The Browns
Banker
Joker
I Can't Help The Way I Am
St. John's
Finale
LINE-UP
Stuart (The Queen) Reffold (Stuart Benzee) — lead vocals, harp, percussion
Barry (Fruity) Coote — lead guitar, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar
Joe (Leslie) Nanson — organ, keyboards, vocals
Patrick (Paddy) Sarjeant — bass, vocals
Will (Wombat) Wright — drums, percussion
Arthur (Two Sheds) Jackson - Composer
Obscure UK Hard Prog band that often played in university circuits, pubs and nightclubs across the central north-central axis of England, such as the Marquee, Fishmongers Arms and Eel Pie Island in London, The Star Hotel in Croydon, The Mothers in Birmighan, among others. Their sound was a mix of early era Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and Humble Pie - with some influences of Jethro Tull as well. After getting a name in the local scenes, they were invited to attend major rock festivals, even opening for Deep Purple at the Pop Monster in 1971, until they met, -during one of those shows-, the Swiss producer Stephen Sulke, who had already worked with Santana, Melanie, Aretha Franklin and Buddy Miles.
Sulke became interested of their songs and invited them to record their debut album in Switzerland, where he had contacts with studios, sound engineers and others connected to the music industry, anyone who could be interested in the work of the group. The result was the album "Just in Case You're Interested", originally released by the German label Mabel Records in 1971. At that time they did not manage to release their LP in UK, but only in some European countries, South Africa and South America.
The band also released a second album in 1973 ("Scruffy Duffy”) but called it career shortly thereafter.