Diamonds and Nuggets is a compilation album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Saxon

Saxon (band)

Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart...

 released in 2000.

This compilation consists of rare and unreleased tracks recorded during the band's early days. Sources include sessions at Luxemburg Studios in 1978, outtakes from the Power & the Glory album, and the Tapestry Sessions of early 1976. The earliest track, 'Walking' from 1972, actually pre-dates Saxon and is the first ever recording by Graham Oliver

Graham Oliver

Graham Oliver is an English guitarist.-Career:He played with the heavy metal band Saxon from 1977 to 1994. After leaving the band he initially reformed his old band Son of a Bitch with former Saxon bassist Steve Dawson and drummer Pete Gill...

 and Steve Dawson

Steve Dawson

Steven "Dobby" Dawson , is an English bass guitarist, founder of Saxon.Dawson was the inspiration for Harry Shearer's Spinal Tap character Derek Smalls.-Saxon:*Saxon *Wheels of Steel...

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Track listing

1. "Stallions of the Highway" (live at The Rainbow) - 3:20
2. "Midnight Rider" (live) - 5:21
3. "Frozen Rainbow" (live) - 6:00
4. "Turn out the Lights" - 4:05
5. "Coming to the Rescue" - 3:38
6. "See the Light Shining" - 4:54
7. "Stand up and Be Counted" - 5:33
8. "Freeway Mad (Part 2)" - 1:53
9. "Ann Marie" - 5:39
10. "Lift up Your Eyes" - 1:48
11. "Street Fighting Man" - 3:25
12. "Still Fit to Rock N Roll" - 3:06
13. "Big Teaser" (Original) - 3:35
14. "Frozen Rainbow" - 7:07
15. "Walking" (bonus track) - 4:43
16. "Make 'Em Rock" (bonus track) - 3:18
17. "Stone Room Jam" (bonus track) - 5:27
18. "Ain't You Glad to Be Alive" (bonus track) - 2:51
19. "Freeway Mad (Part 1)" (bonus track) - 2:09