Name: Can’t Keep a Good Man Down – The Hardin and York Anthology
Brand: Hardin and York

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CRSEGBOX089

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

6CD Set in Clamshell Box with 24 Page Booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929188907

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Total Cap

6 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Hardin and York

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

Grapefruit

<p>Grapefruit is a UK-based music label that specializes in psych/garage-era music from the 1966-70 timeframe. Managed by Cherry Red, Grapefruit focuses on releasing single-artist career anthologies and definitive versions of rare and classic albums. Each release features sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes, and high-quality sound from the original masters.</p>

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 and 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 its 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,<i> Can’t Keep A Good Man Down</i> 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.

Can’t Keep a Good Man Down – The Hardin and York Anthology

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