Stone The Crows

Stone The Crows - Niagara - 1971/1972 - Label Unknown

Stone The Crows founded by guitarist Leslie Harvey featured the great Glaswegian vocalist Maggie Bell. They played a brilliant brand of raunchy blues-based rock. Maggie Bell was once called "The Scottish Jamis Joplin." Can anybody please post any info on this great blues rock album. Were the tracks recorded in London, in 1971/1972? Are they part of BBC Sessions? Was this album ever officially released? Any details on venues, dates, musicians, composers, etc, would be greatly appreciated by A.O.O.F.C. Check out Stone The Crows' great "Teenage Licks" album.

TRACKS - CD 1

01-158
02-Keep On Rollin'
03-Big Jim Salter
04-Mr. Wizard
05-Don't Think Twice, It's Allright
06-Goin' Down
07-Think

TRACKS - CD 2

01-On The Highway
02-Palace Of The King
03-Penicillin Blues
04-Sunset Cowboy
05-Niagara
06-Mr. Wizard
07-I'm Not A Good Time Girl
08-Goin' Down


BIO (Wikipedia)


The band was formed after Maggie Bell was introduced to Les Harvey by his older brother, Alex Harvey. After playing together in the Kinning Park Ramblers, they rejoined in a band Power, later renamed Stone the Crows, after Led Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grant, heard them and took them on.

Original Band

Maggie Bell, vocals (born Margaret Bell, 12 January 1945, in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland.
Les Harvey, guitar (born Leslie Harvey, in 1945, in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland died 2 May 1972).
Colin Allen, drums
Jim Dewar, bass (born James Dewer, 12 October 1942, in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland).
John McGinnis, keyboards

The band's first two albums were produced by the above line-up, with Bell's vocals "reminiscent of Janis Joplin"

Second Line-UP

McGinnis and Dewar left 1971, to be replaced by Ronnie Leahy and Steve Thompson. The tragic death of Les Harvey (electrocuted by a live microphone on stage at Swansea's Top Rank Suite in May 1972) almost led to the breakup of the band. After trying Peter Green, the band brought in ex-Thunderclap Newman prodigy Jimmy McCulloch as lead guitarist. Stone the Crows broke up in June 1973. Maggie Bell recorded two albums in the early seventies, Queen of the Night and Suicide Sal and joined Rod Stewart on Every Picture Tells A Story.