B.J. COLE sessions

(Note: This page is still unfinished. I just have about 1% of his credits listed)
Oh, well, this is really difficult!!! This is the list of the sessions I know B.J. Cole appears... I've classified them into several categories:
SESSIONS WITH FORMER/CURRENT BANDMATES

OTHER SESSIONS


Tim Rose This British singer and songwriter is most remembered by writing the classic 'Morning dew', song included in this his first, self-titled album. It also contains a rendition of 'Hey Joe'. The list of musicians backing him is just impressive: Andy Summers (guitar, much later in The Police), John Verity (guitar, later in Argent), Hugh McCracken (guitar), Ray Martinez (guitar), B.J. Cole (steel guitar), Chuck Rainey (bass), Archie Leggett (bass, later with Kevin Ayers), Eric Weissberg (bass), the late Felix Pappalardi (bass, from Mountain), Roger Sutton (bass), Tommy Eyre (keyboards), Lee Jackson (keyboards), Gary Wright (keyboards), Bryson Graham (drums, later with Alvin Lee), Bernard Purdie (drums). 
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke They were a trio formed by the great Tony Ashton (keyboards, vocals), Kim Gardner (bass) & Roy Dyke (drums). In this album, they appear along with lots of famous musicians: George Harrison (guitar), Eric Clapton (guitar), Stan Webb (guitar, from Chicken Shack), Jon Lord (keyboards), plus Paul Pilnick (guitar), P.P. Arnold (vocals), Madeline Bell (vocals), Rosetta Hightower (vocals), and B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar). 
Brinsley Schwarz A great band (and a great musician). This was their 2nd album, recorded with their original lineup: Brinsley Schwarz (guitar, vocals), Nick Lowe (bass, vocals), Bob Andrews (keyboards, vocals), Billy Rankin (drums). Plus a few (great) guests: B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), John Weider (violin. Someday he'll have his own page here) and David Jackson (sax, from Van Der Graaf Generator). 
G.F. Fitzgerald Sorry, I don't know this multi-instrumentist. My only notes say that this album was recorded with help from Rod Herman (guitar), Alan Place (guitar), B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), Rik Kenton (bass, later in Roxy Music), Ian Andrews (bass), Geoff Leigh (sax, he appears in avant-garde albums by Slap Happy, Henry Cow, Hatfield & The North, etc.), Tony Turnbull (drums). 
Humble Pie A great band, with great musicians. Several are included in my Olympus (Clem Clempson, Bobby Tench, Greg Ridley, Jerry Shirley), but when they started, the leaders were the great Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton.

Humble Pie was their 3rd album, still with the original lineup (Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Greg Ridley, Jerry Shirley). With some guests: B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar) and John 'Willie' Wilson (drums), both in Cochise at that time.

Rock on was their 4th album (same lineup still). Again, with some guests: B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), Bobby Keys (sax), P.P. Arnold (vocals), Alexis Korner (vocals), Doris Troy (vocals).

In the double album Eat it (3 sides studio, 1 side live), they changed their heavy sound into a derivative of soul music, including in their concerts a backing vocal trio, The Blackberries (Venetta Fields, Clydie King and Billie Barnum). B.J. Cole appears on pedal steel guitar. The lineup was: Steve Marriott, Clem Clempson, Greg Ridley, Jerry Shirley. 

Family Dogg This duo was formed by great songwriter Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood. With superb musicians and singers: Alan Parker (guitar), Chris Spedding (guitar), B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar, dobro), Mike Morgan (keyboards), Gary Taylor (bass), Tony Carr (percussion), Barry Morgan (drums), Andrew Steele (drums). On vocals: P.P. Arnold, Madeline Bell, Liza Strike, Doris Troy, Claire Torry. 
Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu & Rabbit This was Free 'in disguise'. When Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser left the band, Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke continued with this lineup. This was around May 1971. But after recording this album, Free rejoined in January 1972. The album contains guest appearance by B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar). 
Tony Hazzard Another artist from the same label as Colosseum. He was a singer and writer (wrote "You won't be leaving" for Herman's Hermits, and "Fox on the run" for Manfred Mann). He used to collaborate in several Elton John albums (Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection and Honky Chateau), so Elton musicians backed him on some of his solo albums.

This was his 2nd solo album, where he was backed by Clem Clempson, Caleb Quaye and Ray Cooper (guitar and percussion, both from Elton John Band), Chris Spedding (guitar), Mike Batt (piano), Dave Greenslade (keyboards), B.J. Cole (steel guitar), Chris Slade (later in Uriah Heep, The Firm, AC/DC, etc.), and featuring vocals by Lesley Duncan and Sue Glover. 

Mike Hurst
He was singer in The Springfields. Around 1964, he had a superb backing band (including Albert Lee and Tony Ashton), and later, he collaborated with Hardin & York. This album, recorded in 1971, also features Tony Ashton, plus: Ray Fenwick (guitar), B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), DeLisle Harper (bass), Derek Austin (keyboards), Clem Cattini (drums), Ian Paice (drums, from Deep Purple), Godfrey McLean (drums), and from Elton John Band: Dee Murray (bass), Nigel Olsson (drums). And on backing vocals: Liza Strike and Doris Troy. 
Elton John

A superb album, with lots of great musicians inside... MORE INFO NEEDED

Nazareth A great band, still rockin'! This album included collaborations from B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar), Dave Stewart (keyboards), Pete Wingfield (keyboards) and Pete York (percussion). 
Byzantium A 
Gerry Rafferty A great artist, formerly in Humbleblums and Stealers Wheel.

City to city is a superb album, and it contains Gerry's most famous song, 'Baker Street'. A superb list of musicians (as always). Micky Moody (guitar), Hugh Burns (guitar), Andy Fairweather-Low (guitar), Jerry Donahue (guitar), Nigel Jenkins (guitar), B.J. Cole (steel guitar; well, he's credited as Brian Cole, but I think it's B.J.!), Gary Taylor (bass), Tommy Eyre (keyboards, he plays in all the tracks), Raphael Ravenscroft (sax, superb playing!!!), Paul Jones (harmonica), Graham Preskett (violin), Henry Spinetti (drums), Glen LeFleur (drums). And on backing vocals: Barbara Dickson, Rab Noakes and Joanna Carlin.

Dumptruck They were originally a duo, formed by Kirk Swan and Seth Tiven, being famous in the early 80s. By the time of this album, the band was just Seth Tiven. The album includes contributions by B.J. Cole (steel guitar), Tom Shad (bass), Tommy Eyre (keyboards) and Shawn Devlin (percussion).

COLLECTIVE ALBUMS & SOUNDTRACKS

Musicians mentioned in this page that I have projected to cover in my site someday: And short tributes to:
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Page created by Miguel Terol on: 16/February/1999. First published on: xx/xx/xx. Last modified on: 05/April/1999. 1