Badger (band)

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Badger was a British rock band from the early 1970s.

One Live Badger

The band was co-founded by keyboardist Tony Kaye after he left Yes, with David Foster. Foster had been in The Warriors with Jon Anderson before Anderson co-founded Yes. Foster later worked with the band on Time and a Word. Kaye had worked on a solo project by Foster that was never released.

The pair found drummer Roy Dyke, formerly of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, and Dyke suggested Brian Parrish on guitar. The new band signed to Atlantic Records.

Badger's first release was the live album, One Live Badger, co-produced by Jon Anderson and Geoffrey Haslam, and was taken from a show opening for Yes. In the progressive rock genre, five of the songs were co-written by the whole band, with a sixth by Parrish. The cover art was done by Roger Dean, the artist responsible for many of Yes's album covers, although Kaye left Yes before their partnership with Roger Dean.

  • 1. "Wheel of Fortune" - 7:50
  • 2. "Fountain" - 7:22
  • 3. "Wind of Change" - 7:15
  • 4. "River" - 6:50
  • 5. "The Preacher" - 3:59
  • 6. "On the Way Home" - 7:39

White Lady

By 1974, the band had been reduced to Kaye and Dyke. They recruited bassist, Kim Gardner, who had worked with Dyke in Ashton, Gardner & Dyke. Paul Pilnick, formerly of Stealers Wheel, joined on guitar, as did singer Jackie Lomax.

Lomax proceeded to turn them into the type of R&B/soul band he had used on his solo albums. The band became a vehicle for Lomax's songs and singing. During this period, they released one LP, White Lady, on Epic Records, produced by Allen Toussaint. All ten songs were written or co-written by Lomax. Guests on the album included Jeff Beck (contributing a guitar solo to the title track).

  • 1. "Dream of You"
  • 2. "Everybody, Nobody"
  • 3. "Listen to Me"
  • 4. "Don't Pull the Trigger"
  • 5. "Just the Way It Goes"
  • 6. "White Lady"
  • 7. "Be With You"
  • 8. "Lord Who Give Me Life"
  • 9. "One More Dream to Hold"
  • 10. "Hole Thing"

However, before the album's release, the band had split into two factions, with Lomax and Gardner leading a short-lived band called White Lady,[1] before Lomax returned to a solo career.

"White Lady" b/w "Don't Pull the Trigger" was released as a single in May 1974.

References

  1. ↑ Theband.hiof.no

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