Tom Bailey
and Tony Weaver
from Lp liner notes: "It wil come as no surprise to
anyone to hear that Tom Bailey - who, without a doubt is the best blues singer
on the European folk scene - is Chicago born. South-side, July 27th, 1942,
to be precise. First musical experience was with Paul Butterfield, with
whom many a time he has wished he had stayed. Not only because Butterfield
is now making it big but because "I like that kind of music". He
left soon to set out playing on his own. Thrown out of school and
discovering that he wasn't the only guitarist around, he left to take a
look at Europe, where, apart from two short trips home, he has stayed ever
since. Tony Weaver on the other hand, born in
Edinburgh, an Irish-Scottish Aries, disclaims any ethnic identity, only
aspires to a personal one. Can't give any coherent picture of his life to
date, probably because his life hasn't been very coherent. He left home
young, after cutting his musical teeth on skiffle ... London, Zom, Dick
Shane, Eddie Cochran, Levon from the Ozarks, Jimmy at Chiquito's, ... the
old Ballad & Blues when Baldry didn't carry a walking stick ... then it
was Brighton beach, Kerouac, Newquay, the Cantata-poets, Finches, Ken
Colyers, stuff like that ... Zoot Money, Hogsnort Rupert, Dicky Dee (Oscar
Brown Jr.), Ricky Tick, Roly Vaughan Combo, someone threw this Dylan record
at my head and it knocked me out ... I had this folk-club in Windsor for a
while ... Ginger Tobin, Mike, Ray, lot of people for a while it was fine,
then I started to play electric twelve-string you know - screwed the
ethnics off, things started to get violent, I got drunk smashed a lot of
things, then I went travelling.
1965 7" Jo Banks and Tom Baily -
EMI/Columbia DD 775
Car car (Woody Guthri) / Run, run (Trad. arr. Jo Banks and Tom Baily)
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1966 LP Tony Weaver
& Tom Bailey: Working Out -
EMI/His Master's Voice KCLP 6
Death Don't have no Mercy /
Deliver Daniel / Song of Lostboy / Long Way to Go / Long Time Gone / I'm Back
Again /
Lover (As You Like it) /
You Bring Me Down Babe / Who Says / Going to Chicago / Working Out / 90% is no
Good /
Girl I'm Gonna Leave You
Behind / Lady of Spain Rag
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1966 7" Exploding Mushroom -
Metronome B 1658
There Will Come A Day (Tom Bailey & Tony Weaver) / Give Back What
You Stole (From Me) (Tony Weaver)
Tom Bailey (el-guitar, el-bas, harmonica, vokal) -
Tony Weaver (el-guitar, vokal) -
Mac McLeod (el-bas, el-guitar, vokal) - Wili Jønsson (Organ) -
Simon Koppel (drums)
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