Tractor

Tractor have become renowned for their studio work and also for their involvement in the 70's Free Festival Movement They have been championed by John Peel, Stuart Maconie and Julian Cope.Tractor is a band founded by guitarist/basdist/vocalist Jim Milne and drummer/bassist/keyboards Steve Clayton in Rochdale, England, in 1966 when the two were members of a beat group called The Way We Live.

By 1970, the quartet -- which also featured bassist Michael "Slim" Batsch and lead vocalist Alan Burgess who would later engineer in studios for the band -- were down to just Milne and Clayton. They were soon signed to John Peel's Dandelion Records. The group was booked into London's Spot Studios [ where Cream had recorded] and finished its first album sessions in two days' time. In January 1971, Dandelion released The Way We Live's debut, A Candle for Judith, named after Clayton's then girlfriend, now wife. The album earned critical praise[citation needed] if little in the way of sales.

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