Mike Vernon certainly saw the potential in Tony McPhee, as he worked with him quite often when he was a staff producer for Decca and was running his mail-order business on the side (the precursors to Blue Horizon)
McPhee, like Green started as a hard-core bluesman, but after a few years found himself struggling with the (sometimes self-imposed) constraints of that label.
Also like Green, McPhee was the driving force behind the evolution in The Groundhogs’ sound. Their first LP sounds little like the ones that followed. Think of the difference between the “dog & dustbin” LP and ‘Then Play On’.
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