Shy Boy (The Complete Recordings 1967-1969)

Kippington Lodge released five excellent singles on Parlophone Records between 1967 and 1969, yet they remain one of the least known English pop groups of the late sixties.

This despite boasting a line-up that included Nick Lowe as well as Brinsley Schwarz and Bob Andrews (future members of Graham Parker & The Rumour) who would all find fame - and in Lowe's case, fortune - for their musical exploits in the decades to follow.

Kippington Lodge have been afforded so little recognition that - with the exception of having their singles crudely tacked on to a Brinsley Schwarz compilation CD in 1998 - their output has never been presented and evaluated in the proper context.

The group - whose first two singles were produced by famed EMI producer Mark Wirtz , including their contemporary version of the Keith West penned Shy Boy, today a regular on 60's radio programmes - was a true creature of the sixties.

With 'Shy Boy (The Complete Recordings 1967-1969) their entire recorded output, along with an unreleased studio track from 1967 and alternate takes from the Abbey Road archives, and a BBC session, have been collected together for the first time ever. It tells the tale of a sturdy little group that was so much more than just a launch pad for the subsequent careers of Lowe, Schwarz and Andrews.