Hardin & York Can'T Keep A Good Man Down: Hardin & York Antholog CD

Six CDs. After independently leaving The Spencer Davis Group in late 1968, organist and singer Eddie Hardin and drummer Pete York got back together a few months later to work as that most intriguing of late Sixties rock music concepts: the power duo. Self-described as "the world's smallest big band", Hardin & York's two-man brand of rock, blues, jazz and soul - not a million miles away from the likes of Traffic or Procol Harum - was hugely popular on the Continent. Indeed, they had such a following in Germany that one show was surreptitiously taped, becoming one of the earliest European vinyl bootlegs when it was sneaked out in 1970. Naturally enough, that live set is included on our definitive 6-CD anthology, together with further live performances (including a 1972 show for the BBC now gaining it's first-ever commercial release), their trio of 1969-71 albums, various studio out-takes and even a non-UK 1974 reunion LP that was recorded with former Taste bassist Charlie McCracken. A 6-CD package, Can't Keep A Good Man Down is the final word on one of the most intriguing musical partnerships of the late Sixties/early Seventies. Housed in a stylish clamshell box, it includes a 24-page booklet with rare photos, a new 4000 word essay on the duo as well as a scene-setting foreword by Pete York.

1. Tomorrow Today (Radio Session) 2. Candlelight (Radio Session) 3. If I Could Join Them (Radio Session) 4. David Difficult (Radio Session) 5. Little Miss Blue (Radio Session) 6. Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Radio Session) 7. Tomorrow Today 8. 100 Years from Now 9. I'm Lost 10. Drinking My Wine 11. Candlelight 12. Beautiful Day 13. Mountains of Sand 14. Can't Keep a Good Man Down 15. Listen Everyone 16. Mulberry Place 17. Sunday Morning 18. All I See Is You 19. Rock'n'roll Music 20. Just a Case of Time 21. I Can't Find My Way Home 22. Love, a Song for You 23. Rock'n'roll Medley: Jailhouse Rock/Mean Woman Blues/Rip It Up 24. The Pike 25. 'Northern Medley: Lady Madonna/Norwegian Wood 26. I Can't Find My Way Home (Radio Session) 27. Just a Case of Time (Radio Session) 28. Parking Meters 29. The Pike (Live) 30. Tomorrow Today (Live) 31. Cowboy (Live) 32. Everyone I Know (Live) 33. Lady Madonna/Norwegian Wood (Live) 34. Drinking My Wine (Live) 35. I'll Drown in My Own Tears (Live) 36. The Long Road (Live) 37. Driftin' Blue (Live) 38. Jailhouse Rock/Mean Woman Blues (Live) 39. Freedom Suite (Incorporating Like a Rolling Stone and Freedom) (Live) 40. I Care for You (Live) 41. The Pike (Live) 42. Find Myself Again (Live) 43. Deep in My Despair 44. Have Mercy Woman 45. For the World 46. Some Places Are Better to Be 47. Extension 345 48. Cowboy 49. I'll Be Back Again 50. Feeling, Seeing, Hearing 51. Natural Gas 52. Take Away Today 53. Cowboy (Radio Session) 54. Untitled (Radio Session) 55. Everyone I Know (Radio Session) 56. The Pike (Radio Session) 57. Ain't No Breeze 58. Back Row Movie Star 59. Freedom 60. Wish I'd Never Joined a Band 61. Clubtrop 62. Some Sweet Dream 63. Loving You's So Easy