Cunning Stunts (Caravan album)

Cunning Stunts is the sixth studio album by the progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. It was their first album with the bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Mike Wedgwood. The title of the album is a spoonerism for 'Stunning Cunts', which is typical of their cheeky use of language. Two previous Caravan albums with titles that are also sexual plays on words are If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You and For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Allmusic described it as "a solid, varied, and interesting album with plenty of character."^[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Show of Our Lives"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	5:47
2.	"Stuck in a Hole"	Pye Hastings	3:09
3.	"Lover"	Mike Wedgwood	5:06
4.	"No Backstage Pass"	Pye Hastings	4:34
5.	"Welcome the Day"	Mike Wedgwood	4:01

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Dabsong Conshirtoe" a) "The Mad Dabsong" b) "Ben Karratt Rides Again" c) "Pro's and Con's" d) "Wraiks and Ladders" e) "Sneaking out the Bare Quare" f) "All Sorts of Unmentionable Things"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	18:00 2:15 2:42 2:29 0:58 4:25 5:11
2.	"Fear and Loathing in Tollington Park Rag"	Geoffrey Richardson	1:10

Bonus tracks

Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Stuck in a Hole"	Pye Hastings	3:10
2.	"Keeping Back My Love"	Pye Hastings	5:14
3.	"For Richard"	Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Richard Sinclair	18:34

Personnel<ref name"Cunning notes">Cunning Stunts lp [cover notes].</ref>

Pye Hastings – electric guitar and acoustic guitars, vocals, lead vocals on "Stuck in a Hole", "No Backstage Pass", "The Mad Dabsong" and "Ben Karratt Rides Again"(2nd vocal)
Richard Coughlan – drums
Dave Sinclair – keyboards, string co-arrangement on "No Backstage Pass", brass co-arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare "Quare"
Mike Wedgwood – bass guitar, congas, vocals, moog brass on "Stuck in a Hole", string arrangement on "Lover" and "No Backstage Pass", lead vocals on "The Show of Our Lives", "Lover", "Welcome the Day", "Ben Karratt Rides Again"(1st vocal) and "Pro's and Con's"
Geoffery Richardson – viola, electric guitar, Western concert flute, flute, night-shift whistle

Additional personnel

Jimmy Hastings – brass arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare "Quare"
David Hitchcock – producer

Chart performance

In the USA, the album peaked #124 in the Billboard 200 album charts in 1975.^[2]

References

1 2 Planer, Lindsay. Cunning Stunts (Caravan album) at AllMusic
↑ "Cunning Stunts - Caravan | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 26, 2011.

External links

Foss, Richard. "Allmusic: Cunning Stunts". Retrieved July 15, 2007.
"Calyx, the Canterbury website". Retrieved March 31, 2008.
Eric, Grey. "Where But For Caravan Would I? No. 6" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 17, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2007.

Caravan

Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Jan Schelhaas Jim Leverton Mark Walker Richard Coughlan Richard Sinclair Dave Sinclair Steve Miller Derek Austin Stuart Evans John G. Perry Mike Wedgwood Dek Messecar Doug Boyle Simon Bentall Jimmy Hastings

Studio albums	Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You In the Land of Grey and Pink Waterloo Lily For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. Dunstans Better by Far The Album Back to Front Cool Water The Battle of Hastings The Unauthorized Breakfast Item Paradise Filter

Live albums	Caravan and the New Symphonia Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert Travelling Man Live: Canterbury Comes to London Songs for Oblivion Fishermen Ether Way Surprise Supplies Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions

Compilation albums	Show of Our Lives The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales All Over You...Too The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975

Related bands	Delivery Matching Mole National Health In Cahoots Egg Soft Heap Gong The Wilde Flowers Bruford Uriel Hatfield and the North Khan Earthworks

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