STRAWBS Strawbs - Original UK LP - Prog Folk Psych Dave Cousins

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STRAWBS

Strawbs

Original UK LP released on A&M Records in 1969. Gatefold sleeve ('edge-opening' version).

AMLS 936A-1 *T   /   AMLS.936.B2

The Strawbs had done an album with Sandy Denny handling many of the vocals, and had also done quite a bit of unreleased recordings prior to 1969's Strawbs. This is still their first proper album, but their wealth of prior live and studio experience most likely helped make it sound more confident and fully formed than many a debut.

The group distinguished itself among the burgeoning school of British folk-rockers by delivering bittersweet folk-rock with a storytelling flavour. Dave Cousins' song-writing was on the sober and earnest side, but nonetheless the record was strong and alluring enough to immediately establish The Strawbs as one of the better first-generation U.K. folk-rock outfits. Some of these songs had been around for a while, but the group took big strides from bare-bones folk-rock in the studio by dressing these in arrangements -- sometimes with light recorder, choral backup vocals, and orchestration -- that gave the Elizabethan melodies a pastoral, quasi-classical feel at times, without losing sight of an acoustic base.

"The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" and "Where Is This Dream of Your Youth" are among their best and most ambitious songs, and even if the compositions can sometimes take themselves too seriously, the music's never less than respectable.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

The Man Who Called Himself Jesus
That Which Once Was Mine
All The Little Ladies
Pieces Of 79 And 15
Tell Me What You See In Me
Oh How She Changed

Side Two

Or Am I Dreaming?
Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth
Poor Jimmy Wilson
Where Am I? / I'll Show You Where To Sleep
The Battle

Released on 'A&M Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. AMLS 936

Disc is in EX condition

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (dink at opening edge)

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