The English band with the unconventional name The Way We Live, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, wasn't a duo from the beginning. In 1966, the four-piece beat band still consisted of four members: Jim Milne (g), Alan Burgess (voc), Mick Batsch (b) and Steve Clayton (dr). Over the following years, however, the line-up was reduced to Clayton and Milne. The two friends and multi-instrumentalists recorded a demo tape that impressed John Peel, who couldn't believe it was just a duo. He signed them to his label, Dandelion. A Candle For Judith, named after Clayton’s girlfriend, was recorded in just two days at London’s Marquee Studios with John Brierley as producer and was released in 1971.

Jim Milne played lead and rhythm guitar, bass, piano and organ, sang and wrote the lyrics. Steve Clayton was responsible for all the percussion instruments, as well as the bass, piano and organ, and painted the picture featured on the front cover. Their charming blend of folk-rock, hard rock and psychedelia, with some early progressive rock influences, was highly praised by critics at the time, but failed to sell at all. It remained their only album before they changed their name to Tractor. Today, this legendary and enigmatic hard-prog-folk cult record is regarded as one of the most coveted and expensive albums ever released on John Peel’s Dandelion label.