Rockferry
Side B:
Oh Boy
Aww, remember Duffy? It's more than a little depressing that she's practically fallen off the face of the earth after her underwhelming second record. Because that first record was truly wonderful.
I'll delve into it more when I blog the album, but 'Rockferry' was always my favourite song off Rockferry. 'A Bag of songs and a heavy heart'. Oh, yes. She had me at hello. It's simply charming. And it swaggers along beautifully. I bought this 7" off eBay before Duffy's downfall. I seem to remember it being somewhat pricey (between $30 and $40, maybe?). But, after I'd accumulated all of her her other singles, I was desperate to get this one, being that it was my favourite of all her songs. Being that it was her first 7", we were led to believe it something of a rarity. Depressingly, it's now on Discogs for $4 (the same thing happened with an Irish band I really liked in the early 2000's called JJ72. Except that I ended up buying most of their 'rare' releases very cheap).
B-side, 'Oh Boy', I'd first heard as it was released on the Australian 'Mercy' single. It's a nice song, and wouldn't have been out of place on Rockferry, much like all of her b-sides from this album. More on those later.
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