''Ghosts'' is the eighth studio

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band Strawbs.

Track listing

Side one #"Ghosts" (

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 ...

) – 8:31 #:"Sweet Dreams" #:"Night Light" #:"Guardian Angel" #:"Night Light" #"

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" (Cousins) – 4:03 #"Starshine/Angel Wine" (

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 ...

) – 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 John Christopher Hawken is an English keyboard player, best known as a member of The Nashville Teens, Renaissance, and the Strawbs. He also played in Spooky Tooth, Third World War, Vinegar Joe, Illusion, as well as being a session musician. ...

) #:"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 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 ...

" (Cousins) – 3:55 Bonus track - A&M remastered CD #"Changes Arrange Us" (

Rod Coombes Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing drums with British bands Stealers Wheel in 1972 to 1973 and again in 2008 and Strawbs from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2004 to 2010. Career He has pla ...

) – 3:55 Rod Coombes sings lead vocals on this track and plays guitar.

Personnel

– lead vocals,

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, acoustic guitar,

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* Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic & electric guitar *

–

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, electric piano, harpsichord, mellotron, Moog synthesizer, Hammond organ, pipe organ *

– backing vocals,

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, acoustic guitar *

– backing vocals, drums, congas,

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;Additional personnel * Claire Deniz –

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on "Starshine/Angel Wine" *

Robert Kirby Robert Kirby (16 April 1948 – 3 October 2009) was a British-born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He was best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, ''Five Leaves Left'' and '' Bryter Layter'', but also worked ...

- choral arrangements

Recording

Tom Allom Thomas James Allom is an English record producer and sound engineer. His best-known work was in the 1970s and 1980s, working with artists such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Krokus, Loverboy, Def Leppard, Kix and Rough Cutt. Allom is a memb ...

– Producer and Engineer *

Mick Glossop Mick Glossop is an English record producer and recording engineer. In 2009, he was awarded a Visiting Professorship at Leeds College of Music. Glossop was initially known for recording and producing for new wave and punk bands such as Magazine ...

- assistant engineer Recorded at The Manor,

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, Oxfordshire; Sound Techniques,

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; TPA, London and the

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of Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Release history

References

''Ghosts'' on Strawbsweb
*Sleeve notes CD 540 937-2 ''Ghosts''

Notes

Strawbs albums 1975 albums Albums arranged by Robert Kirby Albums produced by Tom Allom A&M Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub