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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, June 01, 2013 - 12:34 am:   

The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5746
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Posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 - 02:26 am:   

Augie March - Heartbeat And Sails (Alternate Mix)
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 851
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Posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 - 04:18 pm:   

Dillard & Clark

Out on the side

or

Train leaves here this morning

or

Why not your baby

Just can't make up my mind.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 - 07:31 am:   

Oh, it's definitely "Out on the Side" Stuart.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5753
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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 - 09:37 am:   

Idlewild - Scottish Fiction
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 852
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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 - 10:49 am:   

Let it be so, then, Randy.

Featuring the late, great Edwin Morgan on vocals, Padraig! His Collected Poems just arrived here a few days ago. Can't make much of this one, mind, but it certainly sounds good in context.
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cosmo vitelli
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Post Number: 777
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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 - 04:22 pm:   

The Cramps - Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5754
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Posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 - 09:44 pm:   

I didn't know he had died Stuart.

That album is so great. I thought Idlewild would break huge with it, but it didn't happen. I saw them play in a Sydney pub on that tour. They were great.
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 854
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Posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - 06:01 pm:   

Leonard Cohen - A singer must die
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5756
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Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 09:29 am:   

The Celibate Rifles - Jesus On TV (acoustic version)
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 856
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Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 02:16 pm:   

Judy Collins - The coming of the roads
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 815
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Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 03:45 pm:   

Dom La Nena - No Meu País

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_dRAmnx FA

Extremely talented young Brazilian cellist (worked with Jane Birkin, Camille and Piers Faccini amongst others...). First solo record ("Ela") was released earlier this year and sounds very promising...
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cosmo vitelli
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Post Number: 778
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Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 05:10 pm:   

Tunng - By This
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3213
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Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 09:26 pm:   

Meadowsong -- Moffs. Don't know if it was Part I or Part II. The iPod pitched this up. Geoff Holmes turned me onto the Moffs years ago. They are the gift that keeps on giving. Perfect cheesy psychedelia, with this particular instrumental track also perhaps an homage to the likes of the Atlantics.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5766
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Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2013 - 07:07 am:   

Azure Ray - If You Fall. I just hit play on this without realising what it was. It's like being reunited with an old friend after many years. What a brilliant song.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5769
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Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:00 am:   

OMD - Metroland. Sounds like a cross between early-80s Simple Minds and mid-70s Kraftwerk. Brilliant, in other words.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5780
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Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 01:45 am:   

Simple Minds - Life In A Day
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5793
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Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 12:25 am:   

Peter Case - Echo Wars
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5807
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Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 11:27 pm:   

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5811
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Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 09:15 pm:   

Atlas Genius - Trojans
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5818
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Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 12:18 pm:   

The Soft Pack - Mexico. Nuggets meets Pavement.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5821
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Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 12:04 am:   

Cold Water Flat - Magnetic North Pole
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cosmo vitelli
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Post Number: 782
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Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 10:55 am:   

Ebbot Lundberg - Drowning in a Wishing Well
gorgeous song and the sound of the summer for me
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 859
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Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 04:35 pm:   

Neil Young - You never call

Neil dunks his harmonica in a wee plastic jug before playing, I see. I guess Van Morrison uses a bucket of Vim.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 580
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Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 09:47 pm:   

Rio Grande - So Good To Be Free / Me And My Wife

Two tracks from the sole album released by the band back in 1971. I have the vinyl but it has never been released on cd / digital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1J3Va6P xs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR3BF7kZ- Hg
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 861
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Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 11:39 am:   

RF - Let your light in babe

How nice for this one to pop out of the ether at me and remind why I love them so damn much. And oh for a clutch of sweet new songs...
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5829
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Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 07:41 am:   

Luna - Bonnie And Clyde (The Clyde Barrow Version)
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Michael Bachman
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Post Number: 2530
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Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 01:27 pm:   

I wonder why their hasn't been a new Bonnie and Clyde movie? The 1967 Warren B/Faye D movie was over the top and only about half factual.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5836
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Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 01:56 pm:   

Blur - Tender
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5838
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Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 07:28 am:   

Beady Eye - Flick Of The Finger
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5846
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Posted on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 10:58 am:   

Ivy - This Is The Day. Best power pop song sung by a Frenchwoman ever.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5850
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Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 - 09:34 am:   

Smith Westerns - All Die Young
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Michael Bachman
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Post Number: 2531
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Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 - 12:22 pm:   

Double thumbs up for:

Dillard & Clark
Out on the side

But a double thumbs up and a wink for:
Why not your baby
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5857
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Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 - 12:28 pm:   

Blues Traveler - But Anyway. I know nothing else about this band other than this one song from the soundtrack to Kingpin.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 03:33 am:   

Chocolate Watch Band -- Expo 2000

My iPod has a pronounced bias against the often brilliant mid-60s Los Angeles productions by Ed Cobb who brought us both the Chocolate Watch Band and the Standells. I'd totally forgotten that I'd loaded the best of the Watch Band onto iTunes last summer when I was first building a new library for the new device. If you love the Moffs--and I really truly do--you'll love this.

It reminded me of another even more esoteric group who never got further than club popularity in London and also in France: East of Eden. I picked up their first album "Mercator Projected" way back when it was new and I was 12 years old. I haven't had that record for decades. Might youtube? Yes!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjP0Tgpb 7Aw

It's weird how old memories remain intact. I found myself singing along, knowing most of the lyrics, and I haven't heard this in at least 40 years. If you'd asked me to recall it before I found the video I would have drawn a perfect blank but the music started and so did the memory track. East of Eden are a missing link between psychedelia and prog-rock. Make no mistake, they did a lot of hideous dreck but I decided to order a CD version of the first album on the theory that I'll probably be very happy to have about 50% of it. Their lineup was unstable and they produced a couple more albums which are not remotely in the same league.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 08:48 am:   

Nice memories there Randy. I'd never before heard of them.

Matthew Sweet - Evangeline
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 12:09 pm:   

Padraig, I thought you might have been familiar with them due to this track which was a top ten hit in the U.K. in 1971. Strange choice of single as it bore no resemblence to their sound / style of music. I am guessing Randy will be pleased to hear that it appears on their third album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIMbA7Mc ok
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3230
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 04:59 pm:   

Yes, Hugh, by then I think the only original member was Dave Arbus on violin.

Since "Expo 2000" was the song of the day I should have posted its youtube link. Inspiration to Hawkwind as well as Moffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoKAuF91 XI
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 05:35 pm:   

Randy,I have been meaning to pick up something by the Chocolate Watch Band for some time. I take it 'Melts In Your Brain Not On Your Wrist' is the one to go for?

Song Of The Day :-

The Strawbs - The Man Who Called Himself Jesus

Released around the time of East Of Eden's debut, I think I first heard the the track ( performed live in the studio ) on the John Peel show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzt5fydr N9A
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 06:38 pm:   

Hugh, I only have the Rhino anthology on CD. (I had more Watch Band on vinyl but as with most of my vinyl I gave it away long ago.) I never looked to see if another later better release came out but it's not surprising that one did. Yes, I'd say that the Big Beat one is the one to get. Like Rhino, Big Beat use proper master tape sources. I've never encountered a bad Big Beat anthology. In fact I'll get it myself. Do be aware that Chocolate Watchband, like Electric Prunes, started out as a real band and then morphed into a producer creation. The real band was a Stones/Yardbirds inspired band which I personally love but clearly it's not the same thing as the later psychedelia which was more often Ed Cobb's session musician creation. For me, it's all good but just be aware of that.

Thank you for the Strawbs link. I've never explored them. It sounds like the first thing for me to go running after is the earlier Sandy Denny-sung material. Which I've now just ordered.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 5869
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Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 11:51 pm:   

Hugh, I'm not so old that I remember anything from 1971, unless I first encountered it a decade later (eg Yes and Led Zeppelin).

I meant East Of Eden are new to me by the way; I'm aware of The Chocolate Watch Band from Nuggets.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 592
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Posted on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 03:49 pm:   

Sorry about that Padraig. I keep forgetting that not everyone on this board is as old as me. :-)
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 593
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Posted on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 05:14 pm:   

Randy, Thank you for the warning regarding the Chocolate Watch Band. I don't see it being a problem.

I take it you have gone for 'All Our Own Work' by Sandy Denny & The Strawbs? If so then please note that Denny and Dave Cousins share the vocal duties on the album. The record contains the earliest known recorded version of 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes' which is probably Denny's best known song.

The Strawbs re-recorded three of the songs on the album for their debut ( Tell Me What You See In Me; Poor Jimmy Wilson; Pieces of 79 and 15.) They recorded their first two albums as a three piece ( Dave Cousins - Guitar and Vocals; Tony Hooper - Guitar and Vocals; and Ron Chesterman - Double Bass ) and used session musicians to supplement their sound. Chesterman departed after the second album. Cousins and Hooper added Rick Wakeman on Keyboards, Richard Hudson on Drums and John Ford on Bass. This resulted in subsequent albums being less folk tinged than the first two.
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cosmo vitelli
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Posted on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 05:41 pm:   

I have been blasting Grave New World by the Strawbs this week, amazing gorgeous mellotron soaked masterpiece
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 594
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Posted on Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 06:14 pm:   

Cosmo, I played 'Strawbs' earlier this afternoon and have just finished listening to 'Dragonfly.' Next up will be 'From The Witchwood' followed by 'Grave New World.' I think Rick Wakeman had departed the band by the time of 'Grave New World' so it is probably Blue Weaver on Mellotron.

I ordered copies of the Live At The BBC Sessions ( Volumes 1 and 2 ) earlier this afternoon.
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Stuart Wilson
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Posted on Monday, July 01, 2013 - 08:06 am:   

I'm glad to see the Strawbs getting decent treatment here, anyway - my mates tend to titter when they come across my Halcyon Days compilation. Dave's voice is not always the loveliest of things, and his lyrics can cross over to the pretentious, even more so later on around Hero & Heroine when it all gets rather too proggy, but he often created some beautiful tunes and arrangements.

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