The Strawbs - "Hero and Heroine" (1974)

Hero and Heroine es probablemante uno de los mejores discos de la banda inglesa The Strawbs, es un disco que fluye de principio a fin sin ningun corte malo que socabe la unidad del disco,

 Compuesto despues de la gira del anterior album que casi provoca la disolucion total del grupo
,Dave Cousins y Dave Lambert , los unicos que quedaron de la formacion original junto con los nuevos fichajes , John Hawken al organo ,Chas Cronk al bajo y Rod Coombes a la bateria. Se pusieron enseguida a grabar el album, un album alejado del folk que habia marcado los inicios del grupo y haciendo un disco mas progresivo y simfonico .



Las canciones son faciles de escuchar accesibles , pero con una profundidad subyacente que desmiente su aparente simplicidad.

Musicians

Dave Cousins (vcls, ac/el gtrs)
Dave Lambert (vcls, ac/el gtrs)
John Hawken (pno, el pno, org, Mell, synth)
Chas Cronk (bs, synth, vcls)
Rod Coombes (drms, perc, vcls)


Track listing

1 Autumn: Heroine's Theme; Deep Summer's Sleep; (Hold On To Me) The Winter Long (Hawken)/(Cousins)/(Cousins)
2 Sad Young Man (Coombes)
3 Just Love (Lambert)
4 Shine On Silver Sun (Cousins)

1 Hero And Heroine (Cousins)
2 Midnight Sun (Cronk/Cousins)
3 Out In The Cold (Cousins)
4 Round And Round (Cousins)
5 Lay A Little Light On Me (Cousins)
6 Hero's Theme (Lambert)

bonus tracks (A&M re-issue only)
Still Small Voice (hitherto unreleased)
Lay A Little Light On Me (early version)
Sleeve Notes

Produced by Dave Cousins and Tom Allom
Engineering Tom Allom and Freddy Hansson
Recorded at Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen in November 1973

Sleeve information
Sleeve printed and made in England by MacNeill Press Ltd London SE 1
Art Director Michael Doud (London)
Photography Tony Evans

Other sleeve information
A & M Records Ltd address quoted as A & M House, 136/138 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LZ

The sleeve carries the following verse :

While storm clouds gathered high above
The Heroine he grew to love
Turned slowly to a snow white dove
And spread her wings to fly
Crushed and broken in the end
Hero watched his soul ascend
Knowing that he was condemned
To sail all alone to die


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