''Burning for You'' is the eleventh studio

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band Strawbs, with cover art by

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Recording

The producer of the album Jeffrey Lesser was, according to songwriter/singer Dave Cousins, "...a great engineer but didn't understand the dynamics of the band". The album was intended to be the final one by the band but Cousins was persuaded to carry on when he met with Clive Davis of Arista Records. The final track here "Goodbye" was meant to be his final word on his career leading the band.Cousins, David "Deadlines" CD production notes, Witchworks Media, 2007

Track listing

Side one #"Burning for Me" (

Dave Cousins Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson; 7 January 1945) is an English musician who has been the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. Career Cousins is a founder member of the Strawbs, which started out as the Str ...

John Mealing John Mealing (born 5 April 1942 in Yeovil, Somerset) is a British keyboardist, composer and arranger. After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late sixties,Chas Cronk Chas Cronk is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the Strawbs from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to the present. Chas also toured and recorded with Steve Hackett and Rick Wakeman in the 1980s and C ...

) – 3:44 #"I Feel Your Loving Coming On" ( Dave Lambert) – 2:56 #"Barcarole (For the Death of Venice)" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:25 #"Alexander the Great" (Cousins, Lambert) – 3:59 Side two #"Keep on Trying" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:15 #"Back in the Old Routine" (Cousins, Cronk, Lambert) – 3:17 #"Heartbreaker" (Lambert) – 4:40 #"Carry Me Home" (Cronk) – 3:28 #"Goodbye (Is Not an Easy Word to Say)" (Cousins) – 3:44 Esoteric expanded edition (released 19 March 2020) #"Joey and Me" (Cousins) #" Goodbye” (Alternate mix)(Cousins) #"Barcarole (Alternate mix)(Cousins & Cronk) #"Heartbreaker” (Dave Cousins and The Intergalactic Touring Band (Cousins)

Personnel

– vocals (1–10) (lead vocals 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10) acoustic guitar (2–4, 6–8) * Dave Lambert – lead guitar (1–6, 8–10), vocals (3–9) (lead vocals 3, 6, 7, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (5, 8), acoustic lead guitar (7) *

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– bass (1–10), vocals (3, 4, 6, 7), acoustic guitar (7) *

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– drums (1–3, 5–10) ;Additional personnel *

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– piano (3), synthesizer (3), orchestral arrangement (3, 9), electric piano (4, 6, 9), Mellotron (4–6, 8), clavinet (8), acoustic guitar (7) *

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Release history

References

''Burning for You'' on Strawbsweb
*Sleeve notes CD RGF/WCDCD 027 ''Deep Cuts/Burning for You''

Notes

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