STRAWBSWEB - Album: STRAWBS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: VOL 1: STRAWBERRY FAYRE

STRAWBS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: VOL 1: STRAWBERRY FAYRE

Strawberry Fayre is scheduled for release on 5th October, Vol. 1 is a 2CD set of highlights from the whole weekend, with a 16 page booklets with photographs and line-up details. The track listing is below.

If you pre-order online at Witchwood Records by 4.45pm (UK time) on 20 August your name will be included in the Strawberry Fayre booklet only (we're not including names in the Wakeman /Cousins release). I hope you will be able to support this release in this way, as many of you have before.

Both this and the Rick Wakeman/Dave Cousins CD/DVD are priced at Ł15.99 plus p&p from Witchwood Records; pre-order special price for both at Ł27.00 plus p&p.

Heartbreak Hill MP3 extract from upcoming release Strawberry Fayre

A sneak preview - click on the Heartbreak Hill line-up picture (above) to listen to an excerpt from their live version of "Heartbreak Hill" from the 40th anniversary, mixed and mastered by our very own Chas Cronk. Turn it up good and loud - I think it'll knock your socks off!

Track listing

CD1

Heartbreak Hill – Strawbs (Heartbreak Hill line-up)
Starting Over – Strawbs (Heartbreak Hill line-up)
Landslide – Cry No More
Don't Leave Me Here – Cry No More
Skip To My Lou – Dave Cousins & Blue Angel Orchestra
Hellfire Blues – Dave Cousins & Blue Angel Orchestra
On My Way – Acoustic Strawbs With Sonja Kristina
All I Need Is You – Acoustic Strawbs With Sonja Kristina
Autumn – Strawbs (current line-up)
Lay Down – Strawbs (current line-up)
Angie – Zeus
True Love – Zeus
October To May – Rick Wakeman & Dave Cousins
Can You Believe – Rick Wakeman & Dave Cousins

CD2

Blue Angel – Strawbs (Blue Angel line-up)
Cry No More – Strawbs (Blue Angel line-up)
Alice's Song – Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
That Ol' Guitar – Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
Copenhagen – Acoustic Strawbs
Josephine – Acoustic Strawbs
Together Apart – John Ford
Floating In The Wind – John Ford
Song Of A Sad Little Girl – Dave Cousins & Ian Cutler
Grace Darling – Dave Cousins & Ian Cutler
Flies Like A Bird – Fire
Father's Name Is Dad –Fire
Evergreen - Acoustic Strawbs &The Royal Artillery Orchestra (conducted by Robert Kirby)
Where Silent Shadows Fall - Strawbs (current line-up) & RA Orchestra (conducted by Robert Kirby)

Musicians (other than specified in track listing)

Strawbs: Current line-up

Dave Cousins (vcls, gtrs)
Dave Lambert (vcls, gtrs)
Chas Cronk (vcls, bass, 12-string)
Rod Coombes (drums, perc)
Oliver Wakeman (kybds)

Strawbs: Heartbreak Hill line-up

Dave Cousins (vcls, gtrs)
Jo Partridge (gtrs)
Chas Cronk (vcls, bass)
Andy Richards (kybds)
Tony Fernandez (drums)

Strawbs: Blue Angel line-up

Dave Cousins (vcls, gtrs, dulcimer)
Cathryn Craig (vcls, perc)
Brian Willoughby (gtrs)
Blue Weaver (kbds)
Tony Fernandez (drums)

Acoustic Strawbs

Dave Cousins (vcls, gtrs)
Dave Lambert (vcls, gtrs)
Chas Cronk (vcls, bass, bass pedals, 12-string)

Zeus

Dave Lambert (vcls, gtrs)
Graeme Taylor (vcls, gtrs)
Tom Leary (fiddle)
Jon Davie (bass)

Fire

Dave Lambert (vcls, gtrs)
Dick Dufall (vcls, bass)
Bob Voice (vcls, drums, perc)

Cry No More

Chas Cronk (vcls, bass, bass pedals, 12-string)
Roy Hill (vcls, gtr)

Blue Angel Orchestra

Dave Cousins (vcls, gtrs)
Ian Cutler (fiddle)
Chas Cronk (bass)
Melvyn Duffy (steel, electric and hawaiian gtrs)
Chris Hunt (drums, perc)

Versions

2CD digipak (UK): WMDCD 2048 (Witchwood Media, Oct 2010)