THE ARTWOODS – Art’s Gallery (TOP SOUNDS TSLP 007 / TSSCD 007)

TSLP 007 VINYL album with 16 page booklet
TSSCD 007 COMPACT DISC with 24 page booklet

Vinyl – UK £21.00 including postage
Europe £24.00 including postage
USA / Canada £28.00 including postage

CD – UK £14.50 including postage
Europe £17.50 including postage
USA / Canada £18.50 including postage

The new release from Top Sounds Records honours one of the mid 1960’s most revered cult bands with the label’s first single artist long playing record and CD – the ARTWOODS!
The ARTWOODS – Art Wood, Derek Griffiths, Malcolm Pool, Keef Hartley and future Deep Purple organist Jon Lord – recorded for Decca, Parlophone and Fontana from 1964 to 1967 and their Decca back catalogue in particular has been well documented by retrospective re-issues and compilations. The thirteen canvasses in ‘Art’s Gallery’ however are sourced completely from three live radio sessions that the ARTWOODS recorded for the BBC during 1965 and early 1966 and were not known to still exist. The British Broadcasting Corporation saved a number of tracks the group played for the Beeb and these have since appeared on the Cherry Red ‘Steady Getting It’ set, the rest of the ARTWOODS’ radiophonic output however was not kept by the BBC with the tapes being erased or junked. Thanks to diligent home taping by a particularly keen fan at the time, the ARTWOODS’ music for radio on ‘Art’s Gallery’ can again be heard in public for the first time in over fifty years. And besides welcome live takes of familiar favourites such as ‘Oh My Love’, ‘She Knows What To Do’ and ‘Don’t Cry No More’, there’s a spoil of cool numbers that the band never committed to disc. There’s the upbeat jazz of ‘That Healin’ Feelin’ and ‘Smack Dab In The Middle’, the slow burning blues of ‘How Long, How Long Blues’ and ‘Black Mountain Blues’, the soulful grooves of ‘Out Of Sight’ and ‘I Got A Woman’ and the pure mod suave of ‘Comin’ Home Baby’ (and more!).
The vinyl version features a profusely illustrated 16 page ‘Radio Times’ sized booklet with a story featuring contributions from lead guitarist Derek Griffiths, and the CD comes with a 24 page edition. The music has been restored to the highest possible standards from the only known surviving reel to reel recordings and Top Sounds feel sure there’s a splendid time for all to be had from a visit to ‘Art’s Gallery’!
A limited edition in both formats, ‘Art’s Gallery’ is available now to Top Sounds customers on the mail order list.

Assuming you ordered it please let us know how it is when you've given it a good listen.



I've a folder of the artwoods 1964 Live In Wales Bootleg (flac) which is extremely Lo-Fi but surprisingly listenable, bearing in mind the primitive recording equipment commonly available in 1964! Let me know if it's of interest.

No Steve, I probably won't order this. Just posted it as I thought others may be interested.