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"Poet and The One Man Band" (UK Folk-Rock 1969)

A couple of years ago, See for Miles records has issued a CD By Head, Hands & Feet, called 'Home from Home- The Missing album'. The Compiler claims it is a long-shelved, never-issued album of 1968 by Head, Hands & Feet, but if you pay attention to the Line Up: Tony Colton, Albert Lee, Pat Donaldson, Ray Smith, Pete Gavin, Mike O'Neill and Jerry Donahue, you realise it is not an early Head Hands & Feet, but actually a Poet & the One man Band album.

Poet and the One Man Band was Donaldson & Donahue's (& Albert Lee) Pre-Fotheringay Band. They made an album on the Paramount Label in the sixties, which has its good moments. Pete Frame writes that the label folded right after that. This might be the reason why these recordings were not released before 95. Poet & the O.M.B. became Head, H & F when Donaldson & initially Albert Lee, then Donahue left to start Fotheringay with Sandy, Trevor & Gerry Conway.

Tony Colton (vocals)
Ray Smith (guitar)
Jerry Donahue (guitar)
Pat Donaldson (bass)
Mike O'Neill (keyboards)
Pete Gavin (drums)
Albert Lee (guitar)
Nicky Hopkins (piano)