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Downliners Sect are an English R&B and blues-based rock band, formed in the 1960s beat boom era. [1] Stylistically, they were similar to blues-based bands such as The Yardbirds , The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones , playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect . [ 2 ]
The band's first studio recordings in 1963 were "Cadillac" & "Roll Over Beethoven", but were not released until much later. The first Downliners Sect release was a self-financed EP of 400 copies, titled "Nite In Gt. Newport Street" - recorded live in the street's club Studio 51, run by Vi Highland & Pat Mayhew, later to become the Ken Colyer Club.
The Downliners Sect: Do it and enjoy it! Contemporaries of the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, the Downliners Sect was formed by deerstalker-hatted rhythm guitarist Don Craine in the spring of 1963. Their brash and exciting brand of R&B soon gained them a residency at London’s Studio 51 club where they recorded their first E.P.
In the end of the year Downliners Sect went into the studio to record their first album which was released before Christmas. The album, "The Sect" is a masterpiece! A classic album which shows Downliners Sect at their best. 14 raunchy rhytm’n’ blues and rock songs, most of it taken from outside sources but also some own compositions like "Sect Appeal" and "Be A Sect Maniac".
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The Sect by The Downliners Sect released in 1964. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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