''The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone'' is the first solo album by Dave Pegg, of

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and Jethro Tull. It was recorded at his Woodworm Studios in

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during spring 1983; it was released in 1983 as Woodworm WR003. Pegg formed a band called The Cocktail Cowboys to promote the album, featuring young local musicians. The band included

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(later to join Fairport Convention) on violin and mandolin, Andrew Loake (of folk/rock/ceilidh band Bananas and also a duo with his brother Simon Loake) on lead guitar and mandolin, Simon Graty on keyboards, and Neil Gauntlett (later of Joe Brown's band) on pedal steel. Gauntlett went to the same secondary school as Pegg (Yardley Grammar in Tyseley, Birmingham), although a few years later. Drummer

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was replaced midway through the tour by future Fairport drummer

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Track listing

;Side 1 #"The Cocktail Cowboy" ( Dave Pegg) (3:05) #"Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" (

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) (3:15) #"Barnes Morris" (

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) (2:29) #"All the Dance Numbers" ( Glen Gardier) (4:00) #"The Swirling Pit" (Pegg) (3:28) #"Pipe Major Jock Laidlaws Fancy" (Pegg) (2:58) ;Side 2 #"The Journeymen" ( Steve Ashley) (4:06) #"Carolans Draught" (

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by Dave Pegg) (3:50) #"Level Pegging" (

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, arr. Pegg) (3:03) #"Song For Sandy" (Pegg) (4:04) #"Lord Mayo" (Trad., arr. Pegg) (4:54)

References

1983 debut albums Dave Pegg albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub