Leaf Hound was established from a reformed lineup of blues rock band Black Cat Bones, who had released their only album, Barbed Wire Sandwich, in February 1970.
Guitarist Rod Price departed soon after to join Foghat, and French added his cousin Mick Halls on guitar.
Soon afterwards, French changed the band's name to Leaf Hound, from a Ray Bradbury horror story titled "The Emissary",[4] about a dog that returned from the dead covered in leaves.
[7] The band toured Europe as a four-piece and released the "Drowned My Life in Fear" single and the Leaf Hound album in Germany on Telefunken.
Growers of Mushroom became a collectors item in the years to come and was voted the number one most collectable rock album in Q magazine.
He was a member of Wishing Well, a power trio led by guitarist/vocalist Greg Leon, who issued their eponymous 1997 debut album on Tokuma Communications in Japan and on their own label stateside.