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A 3CD box set including Rock Workshop’s self-titled 1970 debut album and 1971 follow up The Very Last Time remastered from the master tapes.
Rock Workshop’s debut features the legendary Alex Harvey as one’s of the band’s two lead vocalists alongside Alan Greed.
Formed by guitarist Ray Russell, the band brought jazz style improvisation to rock music and its line-up included celebrated Jazz musicians Harry Beckett (trumpet / flugelhorn), Bob Downes (tenor sax / flute), Tony Roberts (tenor sax / flute), Derek Wadsworth (trombone), Daryl Runswick (bass), Alan Rushton (drums) and Robin Jones (congas).
This box includes several previously unreleased tracks taken from Ray Russell’s archive.
The sleeve notes by MOJO magazine’s Lois Wilson include an interview with Ray Russell.
CD1
Rock Workshop
1 You To Lose
2 Wade In The Water
3 Primrose Hill (Theme for Jake)
4 Theme For Freedom
5 Spine Cop
6 Ice Cold
7 Hole In Her Stocking
8 He Looks At Me / Mooncross Grove
Extras
9 Born In The City (Single Version)
10 You To Lose (Single Version)
11 Let My Bluebird Sing
12 You To Lose (Alternate Take - Alex Harvey vocal)
13 Ice Cold (Alternate Take – Alex Harvey vocal)
14 Wade In The Water (Alternate version)
15 Born In The City (Alternate Version)
16 People That’s Why (Take 8)
CD2
The Very Last Time
1 Living Reason
2 Street War Parts 1 & 2
3 Going Home
4 What’s Mine Is Mine
5 Weeping Wood Mandalas
6 Forgotten How To Live
7 Light Is Light
8 I Think It’s…
9 Ella Banta Dum Bundy
10 Very Last Time (includes Is This The End… Baby?)
Extras
11 Heavy Weather
12 Ashen Besher
13 Tokyo Drift
14 Street War (Live)
CD3
The Hustler: Alternate Versions, Demos and Outtakes First Demos
1 When Life Was Simple
2 Soul Sisters a.k.a. Patterns
3 Watch Your Step
Live In The Studio
4 Spine Cop (Live Studio Version)
5 Hole In Her Stocking (Live Studio Version)
6 Born In The City (Live Studio Version)
7 You To Lose (Live Studio Version)
8 Primrose Hill (Live Studio Version)
9 Return To Goddess
10 The Hustler a.k.a. Watch Your Step
11 Wade In The Water (Live Studio Version)
12 Ice Cold (Live Studio Version)
13 Spine Cop (Live Studio Version #2)
14 Theme For Freedom (Live Studio Version)
Outtakes
15 People That’s Why (Take 1)
16 Don’t Go Short a.k.a. Hole In Her Stocking (instrumental version)
17 Studio Jam
