Steamhammer (band)

Steamhammer (English: Steam Hammer) was a British blues rock band.

Musical Career

The group was founded in 1968 by Martin Quittenton (guitar) and Kieran White ( † 1995, vocals, guitar, harmonica). The other band members were Martin Pugh (guitar ), Steve Davy (bass) and Michael Rushton (drums).

Freddie King won Steamhammer as his backing band for England tour. In 1969 the first album with Blue classics by BB King and Eddie Boyd, but also own titles by White, Quittenton and Pugh.

Even if the record sales did not meet the hopes, so Steamhammer was more successful as a live band. In the summer of 1969 Quittenton and Rushton left the band and were replaced by Steve Jollife and Mick Bradley.

With Jollife changed the music style of the band, the sound was touch of jazz, jazz flautist Harold McNair worked as a guest musician with the album with Reflection. This Steamhammer was more successful than in England on the European mainland. So there was exhilarating performances as a warm- up band on the pop and blues festival at Easter 1970 in the Ernst- Merck -Halle Hamburg, which also The Nice and Alexis Korner occurred. After Jollifes leaving the band was again bluesy and rocking. The end came with the cancer of drummer Mick Bradley, who died of leukemia in February 1972. Posthumously published in 1972 the album Speech.

Discography

( in brackets the country in which the phonogram was published, and the record label with associated part numbers )

Singles

  • Junior's Wailing (Single Version) / Windmill (1969) [ UK CBS 4141 ]
  • Autumn Song / Blues for Passing People ( 1969) [ UK CBS 4496 ]
  • Mountains / I Would not Have Thought (1971 )

Albums

  • Reflection ( Junior's Wailing ) ( 1969) [D -CBS 63611 ]
  • MK II ( 1969) [D -CBS 63694 ]
  • Mountains (1970 ) [E - Metronome 15376 ]
  • Speech ( 1971) [D -Brain 1009 ]

Reissues of the original albums

  • Steamhammer (1970 ) corresponds to the album Reflection [D- Bellaphon BLPS 19030 ]
  • MK II ( 1970) [D- Bellaphon BLPS 19049 ]
  • Steamhammer (1970 ) corresponds to the album MK II [D- Bellaphon BPU 14012 ]
  • This Is Steamhammer (1972 ) → corresponds to the album Speech [D -2001 Brain 201042 ]
  • This Is Steamhammer, double LP (1974 ) → corresponds to the albums Speech & Mountains [D -Brain 2/1043 ]
  • MK II ( 1976) [D- 14012 Pickup Bellaphon ]
  • Speech ( 1978) [D- Metronome 0040,054 ]
  • Mountains - Remastered Version (1990) [ Repertoire Records 4066 - WZ ]
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