''Lancashire Hustler'' is the debut solo album by

Keef Hartley Keith "Keef" Hartley (8 April 1944 – 26 November 2011)
was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own b ...

Robert Palmer Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, regga ...

Elkie Brooks Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder; 25 February 1945) is an English Rock music, rock, blues and jazz singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe (band), Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest su ...

and Pete Gage of the band Vinegar Joe (with whom Hartley worked on the 1972 album ''Rock 'n Roll Gypsies'') provided support on some tracks.

Track listing

1973 LP

Deram SDL 13 (UK), XDES 18070 (US) # "Circles" (

) - 5:21 # "You and Me" (Hartley) - 3:57 # "Shovel a Minor" (Hartley) - 4:22 # "Australian Lady" (Hartley,

John Mayall John Brumwell Mayall (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and Rock music, rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of ...

) - 4:36 # "Keef's Mom" (Hartley) - 1:01 # "Action" (John Burns) - 5:52 # "Something About You" (John Burns) - 3:58 # "Jennie's Father" (Ken Cumberbatch) - 3:12 # " Dance to the Music" (

Sylvester Stewart Sylvester Stewart (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development ...

) - 6:19

Personnel

Jess Roden Jess Roden (born 28 December 1947) is an English rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. Biography Roden's first band was The Raiders followed by The Shakedown Sound which also included the guitarist Kevyn Gammond, and keyboard player August Ead ...

- vocals * Junior Kerr - vocals, guitar *

Jean Roussel Jean Alain Roussel (born 1951) is a Mauritian-born Musician, Composer, Record Producer, Arranger, Educator and Sono-Therapist. He is best known for his keyboard work from the 1970s through today, playing regularly live and in studio with Ca ...

- keyboards *

Mick Weaver Mick Weaver (born 16 June 1944, Bolton, Lancashire, England) is an English session musician, best known for his playing of the Hammond B3 organ. Career Weaver's band performed as Wynder K. Frog and became popular on the student union and club ...

- organ, Moog * Philip Chen - bass *

Keef Hartley Keith "Keef" Hartley (8 April 1944 – 26 November 2011)
was an English drummer and bandleader. He fronted his own b ...

- drums *

- backing vocals *

- backing vocals * Pete Gage - orchestration - tracks 3,7 * Derek Wadsworth - orchestration - track 8 *

John Burns John Elliot Burns (20 October 1858 – 24 January 1943) was an English trade unionist and politician, particularly associated with London politics and Battersea. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliament and Minister. He was ...

- engineer, producer

References

1973 debut albums Keef Hartley Band albums Albums produced by John Wood (record producer) Deram Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub