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 ...
. It was recorded at NEARFest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on July 11, 2004Insert from CD WMCD2026 ''Live at Nearfest'' and featured the line-up which played together on the albums '' Hero and Heroine'' (1974), ''
Ghosts
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'' (1975), and ''
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 fo ...
'' (2004).
Track listing
#"Out in the Cold" ( Dave Cousins) – 3:13
#"Round and Round" (Cousins) – 5:31
#" Lay Down" (Cousins) – 4:19
#"Burning for Me" (Cousins,
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,New World" (Cousins) – 3:54
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Autumn
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" – 10:11
#:"Heroine's Theme" (
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. ...
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#:"Deep Summer Sleep" (Cousins)
#:"The Winter Long" (Cousins)
#"Remembering/You and I (When We Were Very Young)" (Hawking, Cousins) – 5:37
#"Heartbreaker" ( Dave Lambert) – 4:40
#"This Barren Land" (Cousins) – 4:43
#"The River" (Cousins) – 3:02
#"Down by the Sea" (Cousins) – 8:37
#" Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:33
#"Round and Round" (reprise) (Cousins) – 3:34
#"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (Cousins) – 5:05
lead vocals
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acoustic guitar
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banjo
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12-string guitar
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, backing vocals
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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. ...
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keyboards
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* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
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** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
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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 ...
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drums
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