Acoustic Strawbs: Baroque & Roll

Artist: The Strawbs
Label: Witchwood Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 780014200428
EAN: 0780014200428
ASIN: B00008AY51

Release Date: 2003-02-11

Acoustic Strawbs: Baroque & Roll

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Tracks:

Tears and Pavan
Remembering [Instrumental]
You and I (When We Were Young)
Evergreen
Ghosts
There Will Come the Day
Not All the Flowers Grow
Inside Your Hell Tonight
Golden Salamander
River
Down by the Sea
Flower and the Young Man
Benedictus
Alice's Song

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Album Description

Full Title - Acoustic Strawbs - Baroque & Roll. 2001 release for one of the better British progressive bands of the early 70s features 14 tracks. Witchwood.

Album Details

2002 Album featuring Acoustic Performances of Classic Strawbs Songs Along with New Material from Frontman David Cousins.

Customer Reviews:

Cristal clear production! great songs!.......2005-02-27

By all means this is an excelent cd. This is a cd with a very good sound and excelent music. David Cousins is the leader of the band, and Dave Lambert is the George Harrison/John Entwistle/Dave Davies/Bill Wyman of the band. An excelent song writer. It is great he is back in the band.

Wonderfully Depressing!.......2005-02-11

After recently picking up the Strawbs' newest CD (Deja Fou) and finding it to my liking, I decided to gradually work my way back and pick up some other Strawbs CDs that have been issued since I was last interested in them way back in the '70s. So I settled first on Baroque and Roll since I rather liked the idea of hearing some old favorites stripped down to their bare essences.
Overall, this is a pretty decent CD. I read the reviews and have no idea why the unsigned "music fan" even bothered to buy the CD. Had he no idea what the Strawbs are about? Monotonous with inane lyrics? The music is wonderfully depressing, not at all monotonous! As for the lyrics, they may be cryptic and allusive, but they are hardly inane.
The CD begins strongly with an excellent rendition of Tears and Pavan. Some may consider it a stretch, but the guitar work on that and on Remembering is highly evocative of the mournful style of the Argentine folk legend, Atahualpa Yupanqui. My favorites are the aforementioned two songs, Ghosts, There Will Come the Day, Down By the Sea, and Benedictus. There are a couple of weak songs, the weakest of which is Inside Your Hell Tonight, but thankfully they are few.
The acoustic Strawbs trio is ably backed by the Wrecking Crew on strings. If you like Dave Cousins' writing and his voice, there is no apparent reason not to like Baroque and Roll. Check it out.

TRULY MOVING.......2003-12-14

Just saw these three "acoustic" STRAWBS live 30 minutes ago.Amazing!Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert and Brian Willoughby played a TRULY MOVING 2 Hour Set.Listening to Dave's intros to each song was worth it! Please try and see these fine musicians when they come through your area.British Folk at it's finest.

bummer.......2003-12-14

This CD gives new meaning to the word monotonous. If it doesn't put you to sleep, the inane lyrics will revolt you. I couldn't give it away.

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