Two tracks by Jim & Raphael, When My Woman Is With Me
and
Lord I’m Feeling Tired
Breakdown were Neil Morton, John Pearson and Raphael Callaghan. Home produced LP with insert and back cover meticulously hand-drawn by John. LP valued at £30 in 2016 Rare Record Price Guide.
About Time were Neil Morton, John Pearson, George Pearson. Raphael guests on harmonica.
Second volume of recordings with Raphael guesting on harmonica.
Breakdown stripped down to John Pearson and Raphael Callaghan. Brendan McCormack on bass and acoustic guitar on some of these 1983 tracks. Brendan was a fifth from prefect at St Wilfred's Secondary Modern School,Litherland, when Raphael was in the first year, and he remembers taking Raphael's name when he was late! He went on to become a formidable guitar and lute player and founded the Liverpool Guitar Festival and the long-running Wirral International Guitar Festival, as well as being a true friend.
Bothy Folk Club 18th Birthday Souvenir. Including tracks by Kevin Littlewood, Jim & Raphael and Breakdown.
Raphael plays harmonica and sings backing vocals on Precious Memories.
In My Liverpool Home (Royal Insurance/BBC Radio Merseyside ROY 001). Recorded at Radio Merseyside on October 5, Raphael plays harmonica on this marathon version of Pete’s song. All proceeds went to charity.
First full-length cassette album by the duo who were to become Blue C (and then Blue Cee!).
Compilation of various artists putting their own tunes to Geoff’s lyrics, for charity. Raphael Callaghan & Christine Purnell contribute Good Times Highway. They re-recorded the song for their Swimming Against The Tide CD.
Double CD reissue includes the I Asked For Water LP from 1969 with the two Jim & Raphael songs.
Compilation CD given free to subscribers of Blueprint magazine. Features When Will The Blues Leave by Blue C, an early mix of a song to be included on their own ‘forthcoming’ CD.
Blue C contribute Blues From Babylon.
Second full-length album by Blue C.
*** Available from the SHOP page ***
Blue C contribute The Ballad Of Prester John.
Songs And Poems of Geoff Parry Vol 6 (GMP 6). Blue C contribute Wings To Fly.
Raphael Callaghan contributes Heartland Of My Days.
Blue C contribute title track That Eastern Wind.
Raphael plays harmonica on Hard Time, Nobody Waiting and Maybelline.
Raphael Callaghan’s Blue C contribute On That Day.
The duo’s take on the songs from the Beatles classic Long Tall Sally EP, plus their versions of two further songs the Beatles used to perform in their early days. *** Available from the SHOP page ***
Raphael Callaghan contributes Time For Change (Hounds Of Winter).
Raphael’s first solo album, *** available now! ***
A gift from Mick Rimmer in 2008. Rehearsal recordings of Send Me Someone To Love and No More My Lord (Raphael, vocal and harmonica, Mick on bass) plus Sally Free And Easy (Jim James, vocal and guitar, Raphael vocal and harmonica, Mick on bass).
Neil Morton, John Pearson, Raphael Callaghan. Live on the 11th November 1977
Live recording for Spencer Leigh’s On The Beat show on Radio Merseyside, December 12th,1985. Borderline Case were Jim James, Tony Gibbons and Raphael Callaghan.
Nine songs recorded at various Bothy Folk Club sessions, all with Raphael on harmonica, plus lead vocal on 3 tracks.
Raphael Callaghan guesting on harmonica, Main Stage, Burnley Blues Festival, April 1989. With many thanks to photographer Brian Smith.
The complete, unabridged solo concert by Raphael Callaghan at the International Guitar Festival Of Great Britain at Birkenhead Town Hall on November 18th, 1991, featuring the encore of Back To Jackson with Christine Purnell making her debut live appearance on bass. Also includes three bonus tracks from Jim & Raphael’s Farewell Reunion Night at Magazine Folk Club, Wirral, June 1991.