Un coffret pour les STRAWBS
The Strawbs, c’était le groupe anglais au sein duquel officiait un certain Rick Wakeman avant de rejoindre le légendaire Yes. Un coffret vient de sortir. Il comprend pas moins de quatre CDs et s’intitule “A Taste Of Strawbs”. Il est arrivé chez les disquaires ce lundi 13 novembre 2007.
Le premier CD s’intitule “Eyes Wide Open” et comprend les années 1966 jusqu’à 1971 dont la période avec Sandy Denny. Le second se nomme “Changing Places” et couvre 1972 à 1974. Le 3e est “Inside Out”. Il parcoure les années 1975 jusqu’à 1988. Les Strawbs s’étaient séparés mais Rick Wakeman les avait reformé.
Enfin, le quatrième disque qui s’intitule “Further Down The Road” couvre les années 1990 jusqu’à aujourdhui. Il y a la tournée du 25e anniversaire avec Don Airey (actuel claviériste de Deep Purple) aux claviers mais aussi Rick Wakeman pour d’autres parties ainsi qu’un Strawbs acoustique ce qui peut étonner.
Liste des morceaux :
CD 1
- The grey hawk (Strawberry Hill Boys live recording)
- The cruel wars (aka Higher Germanie) (Dave Cousins unreleased recording)
- You don’t think about me (Strawberry Hill Boys demo)
- Not all the flowers grow (Dave Cousins demo)
- You keep going your way (Strawberry Hill Boys demo)
- Sail away to the sea (Sandy and the Strawbs)
- Nothing else will do (Sandy and the Strawbs)
- Oh how she changed (Remix 2005)
- Or am I dreaming (Remix 2005)
- All the little ladies (alternate mix with spoken word intro/outro)
- Ah me, ah my (alternate mix)
- The man who called himself Jesus (alternative mix)
- The battle (live)
- It’s just love (unreleased Fire recording of Dave Lambert song)
- Another day (live)
- Forever (Dragonfly out-take)
- Where am I/I’ll show you where to sleep (1970 live track)
- Canondale (1971 live track)
- RMW (1971 live instrumental track)
- Sheep (1971 live version)
CD 2
- Tomorrow (1972 live version)
- New world (1972 live version)
- Here it comes (1972 live version)
- See how they run (Cousins and Lambert 1972 home demo)
- Going home (alternative version with Dave Lambert vocal)
- The actor (alternative mix)
- Part of the union (The Brothers original version)
- The winter and the summer (Dave Lambert home demo)
- Whichever way the wind blows (previously unreleased version with Dave Cousins vocal)
- Suite: Shine on silver sun (1973 extended version with Cousins, Lambert, and members of Ten Years After)
- Out in the cold/Round and round (Dave Cousins acoustic demos)
- The writing on the wall (Dave Cousins acoustic demo of unreleased song)
- The four queens
- Ghosts theme (church bells- field recording)
- Lemon pie (Dave Cousins acoustic demo)
- Cherie je t’aime (French version of “Grace Darling”)
- So shall our love die (Dave Cousins acoustic demo)
- Still small voice (Dave Cousins acoustic demo)
- How I need you now (live recording from Old Grey Whistle Test, with John Mealing)
CD 3
- The merchant adventurer (Dave Cousins acoustic demo of unreleased song)
- Blue angel (outtake from Deep Cuts sessions)
- Goodbye (alternate version from “Burning For You”)
- Deadly nightshade (Dave Cousins acoustic demo)
- Midnight (outtake from first Deadlines sessions)
- Sweet voices (outtake from first Deadlines sessions)
- Bring out your dead (Dave Cousins acoustic demo, aka The Young Pretender)
- Another day without you (demo version)
- Touch the earth (Lambert and Cronk studio recordings)
- Armada (Juan Martin & Strawbs 1981 studio recording)
- A glimpse of heaven (Cousins and Willoughby, live at Sidmouth Folk Fest)
- The hangman and the papist (Gastank)
- I’ll carry on beside you (1983 Cambridge Folk Fest)
- Heavy disguise (1984 rehearsal recording)
- That’s when the crying starts (1984 live recording)
- Evergreen (Dave Cousins home demo)
- Song of a sad little girl (1988 Wakeman and Cousins live recording)
CD 4
- Ringing down the years (1990 Strawbs live recording)
- Further down the road (Dave Cousins acoustic demo)
- Heartbreak hill (1993 Silver Jubilee tour with Don Airey)
- Extravaganza on a theme of Strawbs (Don Airey solo from 1993 Silver Jubilee tour)
- File of facts (1993 Dave Cousins and Don Airey recording)
- Hero and heroine (Chiswick recording with guest star Ric Sanders)
- The ten commandments (Dave Lambert & Brian Willoughby from 2001 tour)
- The king (Wakeman & Cousins Hummingbird outtake)
- Alice’s song (2003 live Acoustic Strawbs recording)
- McLean Street/ Who knows where the time goes (2004 live recording)
- We’ll meet again sometime (2004 Acoustic Strawbs recording)
- Sunday morning (single mix)
- On a night like this (acoustic version)
- Dragonfly (live 2005 version)
- Canada (brand new Dave Cousins solo song)
- Here today, gone tomorrow (live 2006 version)
Bonus CD
- The happiest boy in town (Strawberry Hill Boys demo)
- Draught raga (1970 live sitar instrumental)
- Ways and means (Two Weeks Last Summer outtake)
- Rip it off blues (Dave Cousins demo)
- Stay awhile with me (Dave Cousins version of Strawbs “Sampler” track)
- Oh so sleepy (Deep Cuts out-take)
- Barcarole (instrumental) (Burning For You outtake)
- Time and Life (Dave Cousins home demo)
- Heartbreaker (from Intergalactic Tour Band album)
- Andalucian Express (Strawbs with Juan Martin)
- Lay down (Live 1984 version)
- Over the hill (Blue Weaver solo track)
- You never needed water (originally on The Bridge)
- If (Acoustic Strawbs, recorded by Jon Connolly)
- Cold steel (Folk Scene live recording)
- The river/Down by the sea (Thalgau, 2006, live, H&H band)
Le disque bonus n’est disponible qu’avec les mille premiers exemplaires.