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Strawbs Discography
This is a discography of the band Strawbs Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys. The band started out as a bluegrass group, but eventually moved on to other styles such as folk rock and progressive rock. They are best known fo .... Albums Studio albums Live albums Compilation albums Singles Video albums Notes References External links *http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/ * {{Discogs artist, Strawbs Discographies of British artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strawbs
Strawbs (or The Strawbs) are an English rock band founded in 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys. The band started out as a bluegrass group, but eventually moved on to other styles such as folk rock and progressive rock. They are best known for their hit "Part of the Union", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in February 1973, as well as for "Lay Down", a popular progressive rock hit from the same LP. Strawbs toured with Supertramp in their "Crime of the Century" tour, doing their own "Hero and Heroine" tour, which drew musical similarities and themes. History Early days The Strawbs formed in 1964 as the Strawberry Hill Boys while the founder members were at St Mary's Teacher Training College, Strawberry Hill, London. The name was shortened to 'The Strawbs' for a June 1967 concert in which they wanted to display the band name on stage. Their long-time leader and most active songwriter is guitarist and singer Dave Cousins (guitar, dulcimer, banjo, vocals) (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghosts (Strawbs Album)
''Ghosts'' is the eighth studio album by English band Strawbs. Track listing Side one #"Ghosts" (Dave Cousins) – 8:31 #:"Sweet Dreams" #:"Night Light" #:"Guardian Angel" #:"Night Light" #"Lemon Pie" (Cousins) – 4:03 #"Starshine/Angel Wine" (Chas Cronk) – 5:15 #"Where Do You Go (When You Need a Hole to Crawl In)" (Cousins) – 3:02 Side two #"The Life Auction" – 6:52 #:"Impressions of Southall from the Train" (Cousins, John Hawken) #:"The Auction" (Cousins, Dave Lambert) #"Don't Try to Change Me" (Lambert) – 4:28 #"Remembering" (Hawken) – 0:54 #"You and I (When We Were Young)" (Cousins) – 4:04 #"Grace Darling" (Cousins) – 3:55 Bonus track - A&M remastered CD #"Changes Arrange Us" (Rod Coombes) – 3:55 Rod Coombes sings lead vocals on this track and plays guitar. Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, recorder * Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic & electric guitar *John Hawken – pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Hearted Bride
''The Broken Hearted Bride'' is the 17th studio album by English band Strawbs. Reception Track listing #"The Call to Action" (Dave Cousins) – 7:38 #"Christmas Cheer (Everything's Going to be Alright)" (Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 4:39 #"Too Many Angels" (Cousins, Cronk) – 5:55 #"The Broken Hearted Bride" (Cousins) – 5:11 #"Shadowland" ( Dave Lambert) – 4:48 #"Through Aphrodite's Eyes" (Cousins, Cronk) – 7:26 #"Deep in the Darkest Night" (Cousins) – 4:38 #"You Know as Well as I" (Lambert) – 3:44 #"Everybody Knows" (Cronk) – 4:30 #"Action Replay" (Cousins) – 4:54 #"We'll Meet Again Sometime" (Cousins) – 6:02 Personnel ;Strawbs *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards * Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar *Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, programming *John Hawken – keyboards *Rod Coombes Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing dru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Déjà Fou
''Déjà Fou'' is the 16th studio album by English band Strawbs. The title is a play on the phrase déjà vu, French for "already seen", as the band line-up had been seen 30 years before on the ''Hero and Heroine'' album. The phrase ''déjà fou ''literally means "already mad". The album delivers the kind of British folk rock the band had built its reputation on. Track listing #"Riviera dei Fiori" (Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert) – 1:43 #"Under a Cloudless Sky" (Cousins) – 5:16 #"Face Down in the Well" (Cousins) – 5:55 #"On a Night Like This" (Cousins) – 2:27 #"If" (Cousins) – 5:07 #"Cold Steel" (Lambert)) – 5:07 #"Sunday Morning" (Cousins, Lambert) – 3:24 #"This Barren Land" (Cousins, Lambert) – 4:47 #"When the Lights Came On" (Lambert) – 5:43 #"Russian Front" (Cousins, Chas Cronk, John Hawken, Lambert) – 5:40 #"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Cousins) – 4:14 #"NRG" (Cousins) – 4:09 Personnel ;Strawbs *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar, ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Weeks Last Summer
''Two Weeks Last Summer'' is the first solo album by Dave Cousins, singer and guitarist from the Strawbs. It was released in 1972 on A&M Records. Track listing All songs written by Dave Cousins #"Two Weeks Last Summer" – (3:07) #"October to May" – (2:27) #"Blue Angel" – (9:48) #:"Divided" #:"Half Worlds Apart" #:"At Rest" #"That's the Way It Ends" (including "The World") – (3:00) #"The Actor" – (4:28) #"When You Were a Child" – (3:02) #"Ways and Means" – (4:22) #"We'll Meet Again Sometime" – (4:48) #"Going Home" – (3:24) on the CD, the tracks "The World" and "That's the Way It Ends" are listed separately with timings of 1:45 and 1:15 respectively. Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead vocal, guitars, piano * Dave Lambert – guitars, backing vocals * Miller Anderson – lead guitar, slide guitar *Jon Hiseman – drums, percussion *Roger Glover – bass guitar *Tom Allom – organ, backing vocals * Rick Wakeman – organ, piano * Tom Newman – backing vocals * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Angel (Strawbs Album)
''Blue Angel'' is the 15th studio album by English band Strawbs. It was the first Strawbs album in 12 years to contain new material and featured several different line-ups of musicians from past Strawbs eras. Welsh folk-singer Mary Hopkin featured on many tracks, continuing a working partnership established by Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby on their album ''The Bridge'', from which several of the tracks on this album are drawn. The track "Blue Angel" is a rearrangement of the track which appears on Dave Cousins' first solo album ''Two Weeks Last Summer''. "Lay Down" is a re-recorded version of the hit single from ''Bursting at the Seams''. "Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss" is a rearrangement of a track which appears on 1978 studio album '' Deadlines''. The bonus track is the original 1979 version - also released as a single - of a track which later appeared on the 1991 studio album ''Ringing Down the Years''. Reception Jimmy James in an AllMusic review feels that the album return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strawberry Sampler Number 1
''Strawberry Sampler Number 1'' is a studio album by English band Strawbs. It was originally released as a publisher's demonstration record, intended to advertise Dave Cousins's and Tony Hooper's songs to other artists. Most of the songs were re-recorded by the band on later albums ("Ah Me, Ah My" was used unchanged on the ''Grave New World'' album). The initial white label pressing ran to 99 copies on 12-inch vinyl pressings. There are only two known vinyl copies in existence, making this one of the UK's most collectible records. In November 2012 a copy was auctioned on eBay and sold for a final bid of £909.88. Track listing Side one #"All I Need is You" (Dave Cousins) – 3:07 #"Stay Awhile With Me" (Cousins) – 2:41 #"Sail Away to the Sea" (Cousins) – 3:28 #"Two Weeks Last Summer" (Cousins) – 2:06 #"Nothing Else Will Do" (Cousins) - 2:16 #"Who Knows Where the Time Goes" (Sandy Denny) – 4:09 #"I've Been My Own Worst Friend" (Cousins) – 2:43 #"I Turned My Face into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque & Roll
''Baroque and Roll'' is the sixteenth studio album by Acoustic Strawbs. Acoustic Strawbs were formed by accident after Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby were booked to perform as a duo in Twickenham in 2000. Cousins damaged his wrist and Dave Lambert stepped in to cover while Cousins sang. The format was successful and tours were arranged. Brian Willoughby stepped down in 2004 to concentrate on his work with Cathryn Craig and he was replaced by Chas Cronk who added bass pedals and acoustic bass guitar as well as extra vocals and guitar. Track listing #"Tears and Pavan" #:"Tears" (Dave Cousins) #:"Pavan" (Cousins, Richard Hudson, John Ford) #"Remembering" (John Hawken) #"You and I (When We Were Young)" (Cousins) #"Evergreen" (Cousins) #"Ghosts" (Cousins) #:"Sweet Dreams" #:"Night Light" #:"Guardian Angel" #:"Night Light" #"There Will Come the Day" (Cousins, Don Airey) #"Not All the Flowers Grow" (Cousins) #"Inside Your Hell Tonight" ( Dave Lambert) #"The Golden Salamander" (Cous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartbreak Hill (album)
''Heartbreak Hill'' is the fifteenth studio album by English band Strawbs. The album was recorded in 1978 but, due to record deal and management difficulties, was not released until 1995. The recording schedule conflicted with guitarist Dave Lambert's plans to record a solo album, so session musicians Jo Partridge and Miller Anderson were recruited to supply electric guitar. The album was the first to feature keyboardist Andy Richards as part of the band line-up. Track listing #"Something for Nothing" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 7:23 #"Another Day Without You" (Cousins) – 2:57 #"We Can Make it Together" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:18 #"Heartbreak Hill" (Cousins, Cronk) – 7:31 #"Starting Over" (Cousins, Andy Richards) – 10:48 #"Two Separate People" (Cousins, Cronk, Richards, Tony Fernandez) – 2:55 #"Desert Song" (Cousins) – 4:19 #"Let it Rain" (Cousins, Cronk, Richards) – 4:04 Bonus track The Platinum CD edition of the album includes the track #"Something for Noth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringing Down The Years
''Ringing Down the Years'' is the fourteenth studio album by English band Strawbs. The album was released initially only in Canada. Because of the record company's request that a Canadian song be included on the album (in order to facilitate Canadian airplay), the track "Might as Well Be on Mars" written by members of the Pukka Orchestra was included. The title track was written by leader Dave Cousins about his hearing of the death of former member Sandy Denny. Track listing #"Might as Well Be on Mars" (Graeme Williamson, Neil Chapman) – 4:11 #"The King" (Dave Cousins) – 3:01 #"Forever Ocean Blue" (Cousins) – 3:58 #"Grace Darling" (Cousins) – 6:32 #"Afraid to Let You Go" ( Rod Demick, Richard Hudson, Brian Willoughby) – 3:55 #"Tell Me What You See in Me" (Cousins) – 6:27 #"Ringing Down the Years" (Cousins) – 6:57 #"Stone Cold is the Woman's Heart" (Cousins) – 4:21 #"Taking a Chance" (Demick, Hudson, Willoughby) – 3:57 Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Say Goodbye (album)
''Don't Say Goodbye'' is the thirteenth studio album by English band Strawbs.The album featured material originally recorded for the unreleased album "Heartbreak Hill" using the same arrangements. "Heartbreak Hill" was later released in 1995 eight years after this album was released. Track listing Side one #"A Boy and his Dog" (Dave Cousins, Chris Parren) – 5:06 #"Let it Rain" (Cousins, Chas Cronk, Andy Richards) – 4:55 #"We Can Make it Together" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:33 #"Tina Dei Fada" ( Richard Hudson) – 3:52 #"Big Brother" (Hudson) – 3:05 Side two #"Something for Nothing" (Cousins, Cronk) – 6:35 #"Evergreen" (Cousins) – 4:47 #"That's When the Crying Starts" (Cousins) – 4:06 #"Beat the Retreat" (Cousins) – 5:06 Personnel *Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo *Tony Hooper – lead vocals (7), backing vocals, acoustic guitar * Richard Hudson – lead vocals (5), backing vocals, drums, acoustic guitar *Brian Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadlines (Strawbs Album)
''Deadlines'' is the twelfth studio album by English band Strawbs. Production Signed to Arista Records by his management team, Dave Cousins was persuaded by label head Clive Davis to record a new Strawbs album. Cousins had intended "Burning For You" to be the last album by the band. Cousins management also insisted that the band work with producer Jeffrey Lesser despite the fact that Cousins felt that Lesser didn't "understand the dynamics" of the band. Spending a night out with Davis, Cousins was charmed by the label head and, despite his misgivings, returned to the studio to make the band's final album of the 1970s. Lesser insisted that guitarist/singer Dave Lambert be the lead singer for the album.David Cousins. Sleeve notes expanded "Deadlines", 2012 Witchwork Media Working in a studio in Dublin, Ireland in a studio owned by film composer Phillip Green. After initial recording the band and producer took the tapes to Air Studios to complete overdubbing on the 24 track tapes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |