''The Boy in the Sailor Suit'' is a studio album by

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 ...

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Cousins except where noted #"Never Take Sweets from a Stranger" – (4:41) #"Mellow Moon" – (6:19) #"The Smile You Left Behind" – (3:08) #"Calling Out My Name" – (5:11) #"Mother Luck" – (4:16) #"Wish You were Here" – (5:19) #"Skip to my Lou" (Cousins, Conny Conrad) – (4:50) #"Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" (Cousins, Conrad) – (4:55) #"Bringing in the Harvest" – (4:36) #"Hellfire Blues" – (5:42)

Personnel

– vocals, acoustic guitar * Miller Anderson – guitar *Ian Cutler – fiddle *

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 *Chris Hunt – drums with guests *Elizabeth Tophill – backing vocals *Frances Tophill – backing vocals *Tony Attwood – organ on track 9 *Chris Ball – piano on track 10

Recording

Chris Tsangarides Christopher Andrew Tsangarides (17 August 1956 – 6 January 2018) was a British Grammy-nominated record producer, sound engineer, and mixer of Greek Cypriot origin. He was best known for his work with many heavy metal artists, including G ...

– producer,

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

*Chas Cronk – mastering Recorded at The Ecology Rooms,

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

– .

Release history

References

''The Boy in the Sailor Suit'' on Strawbsweb
*Liner notes to CD WMCD 2040 ''The Boy in the Sailor Suit'' 2007 albums Albums produced by Chris Tsangarides Dave Cousins albums {{2000s-folk-rock-album-stub