The band relied heavily on the research of ethnomusicologist Kenneth Peacock's 1965 3-volume Songs of the Newfoundland Outports as a resource for songs that they adapted into a new rock-based sound called “trad-rock” — an amalgamation of rock music and traditional folk music of unknown authors.
[4][5] They began working with Island Records early, though the album that resulted has yet to be released.
[2][7][8] Through the next thirteen years, Figgy Duff continued touring and released three more albums: Weather Out the Storm[9] (1989), Downstream[10] (1993) and the compilation Retrospective[11][12] (1995).
The band's line-up changed several times, but the core of Noel Dinn and Pamela Morgan, singer-songwriter, stayed the same.
[13] The band has since reunited three times, once in 1999 for a silver anniversary tour,[14] again in summer 2008 to celebrate the release of a CD of live recordings from the bands' previous reunion,[15][16] and for the 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival, featuring Aaron Collis on accordion.