Strawbs
Strawbs [2008 Remaster] (1969)
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Length:  50:39
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The Man Who Called Himself Jesus    3:53
      2.  
      		 That Which Once Was Mine    2:50
      3.  
      		 All The Little Ladies    2:18
      4.  
      		 Pieces Of 79 And 15    3:00
      5.  
      		 Tell Me What You See In Me    5:01
      6.  
      		 Oh How She Changed    2:55
      7.  
      		 Or Am I Dreaming    2:26
      8.  
      		 Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth    3:07
      9.  
      		 Poor Jimmy Wilson    2:37
      10.  
      		 When Am I - I'll Show You Where To Sleep    3:27
      11.  
      		 The Battle    6:38
      12.  
      		 Interview - That Which Once Was Mine    3:42
      13.  
      		 Poor Jimmy Wilson    2:30
      14.  
      		 The Battle    6:09
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      Strawbs - Strawbs (1969) {Reissue with Bonus 2008}



      Review by Richie Unterberger (AMG)
      The Strawbs had done an album with Sandy Denny handling many of the vocals, and had also done quite a bit of unreleased recordings (now on the double CD Preserves Uncanned) prior to 1969's Strawbs. This is still their first proper album, but their wealth of prior live and studio experience most likely helped make it sound more confident and fully formed than many a debut effort. The group distinguished itself among the burgeoning school of British folk-rockers by delivering bittersweet folk-rock with a storytelling flavor. Dave Cousins' songwriting was on the sober and occasionally over-earnest side, but nonetheless the record was strong and alluring enough to immediately establish the Strawbs as one of the better first-generation U.K. folk-rock outfits. Some of these songs had been around for a while, as the presence of some of them on Preserves Uncanned and Sandy Denny & the Strawbs attests. However, the group took big strides from bare-bones folk-rock in the studio by dressing these in arrangements — sometimes with light recorder, choral backup vocals, and orchestration — that gave the Elizabethan melodies a pastoral, quasi-classical feel at times, without losing sight of an acoustic base. "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" and "Where Is This Dream of Your Youth" are among their best and most ambitious songs, and even if the compositions can sometimes take themselves too seriously, the music's never less than respectable.

      Track listing
      01The Man Who Called Himself Jesus
      02 That Which Once Was Mine
      03 All The Little Ladies
      04 Pieces Of 79 And 15
      05 Tell Me What You See In Me
      06 Oh How She Changed
      07 Or Am I Dreaming
      08 Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth
      09 Poor Jimmy Wilson
      10 Where Am I / I'll Show You Where To Sleep
      11 The Battle

      Bonus Tracks (John Peel's Top Gear, 12th January 1969)
      12 Interview/That Which Once Was Mine
      13 Poor Jimmy Wilson
      14 The Battle

      Enjoy!!
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