From the Witchwood

From the Witchwood Artist: The Strawbs
Label: Universal
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005341761
ASIN: B0000AFOHJ


Release Date: 2003-09-11

From the Witchwood


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Tracks:

  1. Glimpse of Heaven
  2. Witchwood
  3. Thirty Days
  4. Flight
  5. Hangman and the Papist
  6. Sheep
  7. Cannondale
  8. Shepherd's Song
  9. In Amongst the Roses
  10. I'll Cary on Beside You
  11. Keep the Devil Outside

Album Description

Limited edition Japanese remastered reissue of 1971 album, packaged in a miniature LP gatefold sleeve features 11 tracks including 1 bonus track, 'Keep The Devil Outside'. Universal. 1998.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Strawbs turn from a folk to a progressive rock group.......2005-08-16

I actually went to go see the Strawbs in concert without owning any of their albums, but having listened to a few tracks on an FM radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the David Cousins led group was a personal favorite of a couple of disc jockeys. This would have been when the Strawbs were touring off of their 1975 "Ghost Album," which followed "Bursting at the Seams" and "Hero and Heroine" and together constitutes what many would consider their three best albums.

"From the Witchwood" is a 1971 release that represents the transitional period when the Strawbs went from being an acoustic folk group, where Sandy Denny was a singer for a while, to a progressive folk group, with Rick Wakeman playing keyboards, before moving on to being more of a progressive rock group in the middle Seventies. At this point in addition to Cousins and Wakeman the group consisted of Richard Hudson on drums, John Ford on bass, and Tony Hooper as the lead guitarist.

Of course it is difficult not to pick up on Wakeman's organ and synthesizer playing on most of these tracks. It sure stands out on this version of "The Hangman and the Papist," more than I remember from the other version I have of this memorable tale about two brothers on opposite sides of the religious fence in Tudor England. The album opens with the pastoral "Glimpse of Heaven," originally a poem by Cousins which now features Wakeman's church organ accompaniment, and which defines the merging of the folk past and progressive future of the band. The folk impulse probably comes out strongest in the cautionary drug tale "Witchwood" and the sensitivities inherent in "Sheep."

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