Track listing

1. "New World
   New World (Strawbs song)
   "New World" is a song by English band Strawbs written by Dave Cousins. The track first appeared on the Grave New World album.-Lyrical and musical content:...
   
   "
2. "I Turned My Face into the Wind"
3. "Oh How She Changed
   Oh How She Changed
   "Oh How She Changed" is a song by English band Strawbs written by Dave Cousins and Tony Hooper. It was the first single to be released by Strawbs and later appeared on their 1969 album Strawbs...
   
   " (Cousins, Tony Hooper
   Tony Hooper
   Tony Hooper is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as a founder-member of Strawbs together with Dave Cousins. He left Strawbs in 1972 after their album Grave New World, when it became obvious that the band was moving further away from its folk roots towards rock and...
   
   )
4. "Witchwood"
5. "Where is This Dream of Your Youth"
6. "Grace Darling
   Grace Darling (song)
   "Grace Darling" is a song by English band Strawbs, featured on their album Ghosts . The track was recorded at in the chapel of the Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, which the members of the band Genesis had attended in the 1960s, and which Strawbs' producer at the time, Tom Allom, had also...
   
   "
7. "Queen of Dreams
   Queen of Dreams
   "Queen of Dreams" is a song performed by English band Strawbs and written by Dave Cousins. The track first appeared on the 1972 Grave New World album.-Musical content:...
   
   "
8. "Tears and Pavan"

   "Tears"

   "Pavan" (Cousins, Richard Hudson

   Richard Hudson (musician)

   Richard Hudson is an English singer-songwriter and musician.-Career:Richard Hudson was a member of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, in which he played drums and sitar and sang. In 1970, he and band-mate John Ford joined Strawbs...

   
   , John Ford)

9. "Round and Round"
10. "So Shall Our Love Die"
11. "Lay Down
    Lay Down
    "Lay Down" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams. It peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart....
    
    "
12. "Down by the Sea"
13. "Ghosts"

    "Sweet Dreams"

    "Night Light"

    "Guardian Angel"

    "Night Light"

14. "Hero and Heroine
    Hero and Heroine (song)
    "Hero and Heroine" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album of the same name. It is written by Dave Cousins and has obvious drug allusions, the main reason it didn't get much airplay on BBC radio...
    
    "

Personnel

• Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...
  
   – vocals, acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , dulcimer
  Appalachian dulcimer
  The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...
  
  , piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
   (all tracks)
• Tony Hooper
  Tony Hooper
  Tony Hooper is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as a founder-member of Strawbs together with Dave Cousins. He left Strawbs in 1972 after their album Grave New World, when it became obvious that the band was moving further away from its folk roots towards rock and...
  
   – vocals, acoustic guitar (tracks 1–5,7)
• Dave Lambert
  Dave Lambert (British musician)
  Dave Lambert is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who was a member of The Strawbs in the 1970s.-Career:...
  
   – vocals, electric guitar (tracks 6,8–14)
• Ron Chesterman
  Ron Chesterman
  Ron Chesterman was an English musician and archivist. He is best known as the original double bass player with Strawbs...
  
   – double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   (tracks 2,3)
• John Ford – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , acoustic guitar, vocals (tracks 1,4,5,7,8,11,12)
• Chas Cronk
  Chas Cronk
  -Strawbs:*Hero and Heroine *Ghosts *Nomadness *Deep Cuts *Burning for You *Deadlines *Heartbreak Hill *Blue Angel *Déjà Fou *Strawbs Live at Nearfest 2004...
  
   – bass guitar, vocals (tracks 6,9,10,13,14)
• Rick Wakeman
  Rick Wakeman
  Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
   (tracks 4,5)
• Blue Weaver
  Blue Weaver
  Blue Weaver is a British keyboard player, session musician, songwriter and record producer.-Biography:...
  
   – keyboards, accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
   (tracks 1,7,8,11,12)
• John Hawken
  John Hawken
  John Hawken John Hawken John Hawken (born John Christopher Hawken, 9 May 1940, at Christchurch General Hospital, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset) is a British keyboard player. He studied classical piano between the ages of four and eighteen at which point he succumbed to the lure of rock and roll...
  
   – keyboards (tracks 6,9,13,14)
• Richard Hudson
  Richard Hudson (musician)
  Richard Hudson is an English singer-songwriter and musician.-Career:Richard Hudson was a member of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, in which he played drums and sitar and sang. In 1970, he and band-mate John Ford joined Strawbs...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , vocals (tracks 1,4,5,7,8,11,12)
• Rod Coombes
  Rod Coombes
  Rod Coombes is an English singer-songwriter and musician.-Career:He has played professionally since he was 17, when he joined singer Lulu's backing band The Luvvers. He played with the Jeff Beck Group at the time of the release of the single "Hi Ho Silver Lining" and then joined soul band Trifle,...
  
   – drums, vocals (tracks 6,9,10,13,14)

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