''Duochrome'' is a live

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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 S ...

. It was originally released as a bonus disc for the first 1000 buyers of the

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album ''

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 #"To ...

'' through their label's online shop. Popular demand prompted an independent release later that year.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Cousins. #"Hanging in the Gallery" (4:39) #"Never Take Sweets from a Stranger" (3:47) #"Song of a Sad Little Girl" (4:49) #"The Hangman and the Papist" (4:08) #"

Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ''Forfarshire'' in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ...

" (5:30) #"Beat the Retreat" (5:03) #"Ringing Down the Years" (6:36) #"The Shepherd's Song" (4:52) #"Ways and Means" (4:24) #"Blue Angel" (10:34) #"We'll Meet Again Sometime" (5:56) #"Beside the Rio Grande" (5:05)

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

*Ian Cutler –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

(tracks 7 to 11) *

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 ...

– mastering

Release history

References

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''Duochrome'' on Strawbsweb] 2008 live albums Dave Cousins albums {{2000s-folk-rock-album-stub