Captain Marryat – Progressive Music (1974)
Captain Marryat – Captain Marryat 1974 Scottish band from Port Glasgow and Greenock. Originally Privately pressed in a 200 or so limitation as a kind of promo to get the bigger deal. Unfortunately that was the end of what could of been a major band. Re-issued on 180g vinyl. Caused some Ebay buzz on copies surfacing of the original and subsequently sponsoring the sellers world cruise with some change left over for the fruit m/c. They were originally intending to record a single, but the engineer at the Glasgow studio theyd booked told them that there was time enough to make a whole album. They therefore taped five tracks theyd already written (Blindness, It Happened To Me, A Friend, Songwriters Lament and Changes) and finished the LP with an improvised jam (Dance Of Thor). Jimmy Rorrison – Vocals/Drums Hugh Finnegan – Bass/Vocals Allan Bryce – Organ/Vocals Tommy Hendry – Vocals/Acoustic [...]