Historic event for Strawbs fans
These venerable gentlemen are the Strawbs. I’ve been listening to their music since I was 12. They’ve just played at Cropredy, the 40th anniversary of the annual UK folk festival organised by Fairport Convention and the various offshoots of that band. Although the Strawbs have been around even longer than Fairport, and the late Sandy Denny was once a member of both bands, amazingly this is the first time the Strawbs have ever appeared at the festival. This photo is courtesy of Dick Greener, who runs the band’s official website. The Cropredy lineup was, in my opinion, the classic one: the band that made Hero and Heroine (Cousins, Lambert, Cronk, Hawken, Coombes) and, by all accounts, they put in a “barnstorming” performance, performing songs such as ‘Lay Down’, ‘New World’ and ‘Ghosts’.
posted by Chris Bell at 5:20 PM
2 Comments:
Ahh, but did they do 'Part of the Union'?
HUGE hit in NZ, as I recall...
Hi Rob. You remember, then. A number two hit in the UK, as well.
No, they didn't play PotU. You may also remember that it was composed by Rick Hudson and John Ford, who had some other hits in their own right/write, under the name Hudson-Ford. Another Strawbs variant, including both Hudson and Ford (as well as Blue Weaver, who went on to play keyboards for the Bee-Gees), has also been gigging of late.
The full Strawbs at Cropredy setlist, for completists, was:
Lay Down
I Only Want My Love to Grow In You
New World
Burning For Me
Cold Steel
Witchwood
Benedictus
Autumn
Ghosts
Out In The Cold/Round And Round
The River/Down By The Sea
Drum solo/Hero And Heroine
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