Deep Cuts

Deep Cuts Artist: The Strawbs
Label: Vivid Sound Japan
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4540399042190
ASIN: B0000TANMQ


Release Date: 2003-12-04

Deep Cuts


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Tracks:

  1. I Only Want My Love to Grow in You
  2. Turn Me Round
  3. Hard Hard Winter
  4. My Friend Peter
  5. Soldier's Tale
  6. Simple Visions
  7. Charmer
  8. Thinking of You
  9. Beside the Rio Grande
  10. So Close and Yet So Far Away
  11. You Won't See the Light

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Album Description

Japanese reissue of the progressive rock act's 1976 album is packaged in a miniature LP sleeve & features 11 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'You Won't See The Light'. Muskrat. 2003.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Includes a Bonus Track.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The last decent Strawbs album, although many fans will not rate it that highly.......2006-01-09

"Deep Cuts" was the beginning of the end for the Strawbs as far as I was concerned (it only made it to #144 on the Billboard album chart). Their previous album "Nomadness" had clearly been a cut below the group's best work, which would be "Bursting at the Seams," "Hero & Heroine," and "Ghosts." In retrospect there are two key differences that account for why the progressive folk rock group from the U.K. went into decline. First, and most important as far as I am concerned, is the absence of keyboard player John Hawken. He was replaced by John Mealing and Robert Kirby, neither of whom added anything special to these songs the way that Hawken did for so many tracks, esepcially on "Hero & Heroine." I am well aware that once upon a time Rick Wakeman was playing keyboard for the Strawbs, but Hawken proved to be a much better fit.

The other key difference is that the group's leader David Cousins was teaming up more often with Chas Cronk in writing songs in what appears to be an attempt to write more commercial tunes, which was never the group's forte. "Deep Cuts" is more of a mixture of light and dark than most Strawbs albums, giving us the chipper tunes "I Only Want My Love to Grow In Your" (nice job of singing the bridge by Dave Lambert) and "Charmer" with the moody narratives "The Soldier's Tale" and "Beside the Rio Grande." That last one is thee standout track on the album and a clear reminder of the Strawbs at their best. There is also a bit more reliance on acoustic guitar, as in "Simple Visions," although this is balanced by the much harder edged "My Friend Peter." "(Wasting My Time) Thinking of You" is a bit loopy, while "Turn Me Round" is more in the classic Strawbs style.

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