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''The Collection'' is a compilation
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band Strawbs.


Track listing

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Part of the Union "Part of the Union" is a song by English band Strawbs, featured on their 1973 album ''Bursting at the Seams'' and was the band's most successful single, peaking at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart. It also reached No. 10 in the Irish Singles Chart. ...
" ( Richard Hudson,
John Ford John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He ...
) – 2:54 #"I'll Carry on Beside You" (Cousins) – 3:09 #"
The Man Who Called Himself Jesus "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" is a song by English band Strawbs written by Dave Cousins. It appears on their album '' Strawbs''. An alternative mix of the song may be found on the 2006 box set '' A Taste of Strawbs''. B-Side The B-side tra ...
" (Cousins) – 3:50 #" Oh How She Changed" (Cousins, Tony Hooper) – 2:52 #"I Turned My Face into the Wind" (Cousins) – 2:42 #"Song of a Sad Little Girl" (Cousins) – 5:28 #"Witchwood" (Cousins) – 3:23 #"
Benedictus Benedictus may refer to: Music * Benedictus (Song of Zechariah), ''Benedictus'' (''Song of Zechariah''), the canticle sung at Lauds, also called the Canticle of Zachary * The second part of the Sanctus, part of the Eucharistic prayer * Benedictus ...
" (Cousins) – 4:24 #" Heavy Disguise" (Ford) – 2:53 #"Keep the Devil Outside" (Ford) – 3:02 #" Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46 #"
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 #" Lemon Pie" (Cousins) – 4:03 #"Martin Luther King's Dream" (Cousins) – 2:53 #"Tokyo Rosie" (Cousins) – 2:48 #" Will Ye Go" (Francis McPeake) – 3:54 #" I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" (Cousins,
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 ...
) – 3:00 #"
Lay Down "Lay Down" is a single by the Strawbs which reached No. 12 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1972 - their first hit. It was included on their 1973 album ''Bursting at the Seams''. The lyrics are loosely based on the 23rd Psalm in the Old Testa ...
" (Cousins) – 4:31


Personnel

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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 Str ...
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 withou ...
, acoustic guitar,
electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...
,
dulcimer The word dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...
,
piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
(all tracks except 9) * Tony Hooper – vocals, acoustic guitar (tracks 2–8,10,14) * Dave Lambert – vocals, electric guitar (tracks 1,11–13,15–18) *
Ron Chesterman Ronald George Arthur Chesterman (27 November 1939 – 16 March 2007) was an English musician. He is best known as the original double bass player with The Strawberry Hills Boys, starring Dave Cousins on guitar, dulcimer, banjo and vocals, Tony ...
double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...
(tracks 3–5) *
John Ford John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He ...
bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
, acoustic guitar, vocals (tracks 1,2,6–10,14,16,18) *
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 ...
– bass guitar, vocals (tracks 11–13,15,17) * Rick Wakemankeyboards, clavinet (tracks 2,6,7,10,14,15) *
Blue Weaver Derek John "Blue" Weaver (born 11 March 1947) is a Welsh rock keyboardist, session musician, songwriter and record producer. Career Weaver's career as a musician began as a co-founding member of 1960s Welsh rock band Amen Corner and its succ ...
– keyboards, accordion (tracks 1,8,16,18) * John Hawken – keyboards (tracks 11–13) *
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 ...
– keyboards (track 17) *
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,Richard Hudsondrums, vocals (tracks 1,2,6–8,10,14,16,18) *
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 ...
– drums, vocals (tracks 11–13,15,17)


Release history


References


''The Collection'' on Strawbsweb
2002 compilation albums Strawbs compilation albums {{2000s-progressive-rock-album-stub