Married couple Gay and Terry Woods formed The Woods Band in 1970 after their split with Steeleye Span. They recorded one album, The Woods Band, and toured before dissolving when the couple joined DR. Strangely Strange for a six-week tour in the spring of 1971. The couple later resumed performing as The Woods Band and also as Gay & Terry Woods, with a rotating cast of musicians, and released a final single as The Woods Band in 1974, The Time Is Right, before continuing under the name Gay & Terry Woods.

The couple divorced in 1980, with Gay forming Auto Da Fé and Terry retiring from the industry for 5 years before joining The Pogues.

Terry began recording and touring with Dave Browne in 2001, reviving the name The Woods Band. They released one album, Music From The Four Corners Of Hell, in 2002, but ceased performing in 2003.