Widowmaker Straight Faced Fighters Tracks: Disc One 01 Such A Shame 02 Pin On A Rose 03 On The Road 04 Straight Faced Fighter 05 Ain't Telling You Nothing 06 When I Met You 07 Leave The Kids Alone 08 Shine A Light On Me 09 Running Free 10 Got A Dream Disc Two 01 Come On Up 02 Such A Shame 03 Too Late 04 El Doomo 05 Ain't Telling You Nothing 06 When I Met You 07 Too Late To Cry 08 The Hustler 09 Here Comes The Queen 10 Something I Can Do Without 11 Sign The Papers 12 Pushing And Pulling Line up: Steve Ellis - vocals John Butler - vocals Ariel Bender - guitars Huw Lloyd-Langton - guitars Bob Daisley - bass Paul Nocholls - drums Record Label / Year of Release: Jet 2003 Notes: Widowmaker were a British hard rock group, who were active from 1975 to 1977. They were considered by many to be a supergroup and released two albums. Although their influences appeared to offer vast creative possibilities, musical and personality differences lead to their break-up. The legacy of Widowmaker is captured on the compilation Straight Faced Fighters (2002) released by Castle, which contains tracks from both of their albums. The band was formed by former Mott the Hoople and Spooky Tooth guitarist Luther Grosvenor, also known as Ariel Bender. The original line-up featured vocalist Steve Ellis from Love Affair, guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton from Hawkwind, Australian bassist Bob Daisley of Chicken Shack and drummer Paul Nicholls who had played with Lindisfarne. A few months after they had begun rehearsing at Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Manticore Studios in London the quintet were signed to Jet Records owned by Don Arden. A single release "On the Road" followed, in February 1976 and their debut album Widowmaker was released in the same year. The line-up for the "Widowmaker" album was augmented in the studio by vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench from Streetwalkers and hammond player Zoot Money. Widowmaker reached #196 in US and featured an eclectic mix of blues, country, folk and hard rock. Widowmaker toured the UK with Nazareth and in June 1976 they took part in a series of nationwide stadium all-day concerts under the name of The Who Put The Boot In alongside leading rock acts such as, Little Feat, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Streetwalkers and The Who, who were the headline act. Ellis left the band after a tour of North America with Electric Light Orchestra and was replaced by vocalist John Butler and the band recorded their second album Too Late to Cry. Daisley joined Rainbow and Widowmaker broke up only months after the release of Too Late to Cry (1977). Released as a double disc, 'Straight Faced Fighters' is a comilation released in 2003 and contains the entire self titled debut album (on Disc #1), with selected cuts from the second (and last) album 'Too Late To Cry' and live material recorded at the Paris Theater in London 1976 on Disc #2.