The Downliners Sect were a British rhythm and blues band
of the beat boom era, formed in 1963 when the existing Downliners band split up.
Their first recording - a live EP on the independent Contrast Sound label in
January 1964 - is now very collectable and expensive. It included a cover of
Booker T and The MG's Green Onions. A few months later, mouth organist Ray Stone
was added to their line-up and they were signed by Columbia. For their first 45
they covered Jimmy Reed's Baby What's Wrong and put a self-penned composition,
Be A Sect Maniac, on the flip.
