Blue Angel (Strawbs album)
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Blue Angel is a studio album by English band Strawbs. It was the first Strawbs album to contain new material for 12 years and featured several different line-ups of musicians from past Strawbs eras. Welsh folk-singer Mary Hopkin featured on many tracks, continuing a working partnership established by Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby on their album The Bridge, from which several of the tracks on this album are drawn.
The track "Blue Angel" is a rearrangement of the track which appears on Dave Cousins' first solo album Two Weeks Last Summer. "Lay Down" is a re-recorded version of the hit single from Bursting at the Seams.
Track listing
- "Blue Angel" (Dave Cousins) – 11:13
- "Divided"
- "Half Worlds Apart"
- "At Rest"
- "Oh So Sleepy" (Cousins) – 3:44
- "Further Down the Road" (Cousins) – 3:25
- "There Will Come the Day" (Cousins, Don Airey) – 6:05
- "Strange Day Over the Hill" (Cousins) – 3:56
- "Cry No More" (Cousins, Brian Willoughby)) – 3:18
- "The Plain" (Cousins) – 5:48
- "Do You Remember" (Cousins, Willoughby) – 3:12
- "Rhythm of the Night" (Cousins) – 3:19
- "Morning Glory" (Cousins) – 4:52
- "Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss" (Cousins) – 2:57
- "Lay Down" (Cousins) – 4:09
Bonus track
- "The King" (Cousins) – 2:38
Personnel
- Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, piano (11)
- Brian Willoughby – electric guitar
- Dave Lambert – guitar (2,9), vocals (2,9)
- Blue Weaver – keyboards except 11 and "The King", programming (4), orchestration (10)
- Andy Richards – keyboards ("The King")
- Rod Demick – backing vocals (1,4,5,12), bass guitar (1,4,5,12), harmonica (5)
- Richard Hudson – backing vocals (1,4,5,12), drums (1,5,12)
- Chas Cronk – bass guitar (2,3,6,8,9,10,"The King"), backing vocals (4,9,"The King"), bass pedals (7), programming (7,8)
- Rod Coombes – drums (2,9)
- Tony Fernandez – drums (3,10,"The King"), tom-toms (7)
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- Mary Hopkin – vocals (1,3,4,6,8,10,12)
- Cathryn Craig – vocals (4)
- Terry Cassidy – vocals (4)
- Jana Heller – vocals (9)
- Roy Hill – vocals (9)
- Tommy Lundy – vocals (9)
- Maddy Prior – vocals ("The King")
- Rick Kemp – vocals ("The King")
Recording
- Dave Cousins, Brian Willoughby, Chas Cronk – producers
- Mixed by Dave Cousins and Kenny Denton at KD's Studio, Chiswick, London, October 2002
Release history
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| United Kingdom |
2003 (2003) |
Witchwood |
CD |
WMCD2008 |
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