The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone is the first solo album by Dave Pegg

Dave Pegg

Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...

 of Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

 and Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

. It was recorded at his Woodworm

Woodworm Records

Woodworm Records was a record label created in 1979 to enable the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention to release their album Farewell Farewell. The album was a recording of performances taken from the band's 1979 farewell tour...

 Studios in Barford St. Michael during Spring 1983; it was released in 1983 as Woodworm WR003.

Pegg formed a band called "The Cocktail Cowboys" to promote the album, featuring young local musicians. The band included Chris Leslie (later to join Fairport Convention) on violin and mandolin, Andrew Loake (of folk/rock/ceilidh band Bananas and also a duo with his brother Simon Loake) on lead guitar and mandolin, local vicar's son Simon Graty on keyboards, and Neil Gauntlett (later of Joe Brown's band) on pedal steel. Gauntlett went to the same secondary school as Pegg (Yardley Grammar in Tyseley, Birmingham, although a few years later. Drummer Trevor Foster

Trevor Foster (drummer)

Trevor Foster is an English drummer, who started his musical career with the 1970s Birmingham rock group Flying Hat Band. He joined folk rocksters The Albion Band in the early 1980s....

 was replaced midway through the tour by future Fairport drummer Gerry Conway

Gerry Conway (musician)

Gerald Conway is an English folk and rock drummer/percussionist, best known for having performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and currently a member of Fairport Convention as well as his side projects...

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Track listing

Side 1

1. "The Cocktail Cowboy" (Dave Pegg
   Dave Pegg
   Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, arguably most visible as a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the pre-eminent electric folk band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of important folk and rock groups including The Ian Campbell...
   
   ) (3:05)
2. "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow" (Ian Anderson
   Ian Anderson (musician)
   Ian Scott Anderson, MBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the leader and flautist of British rock band Jethro Tull.-Early life:...
   
   ) (3:15)
3. "Barnes Morris" (Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell
   Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s....
   
   ) (2:29)
4. "All the Dance Numbers" (Glen Gardier) (4:00)
5. "The Swirling Pit" (Pegg) (3:28)
6. "Pipe Major Jock Laidlaws Fancy" (Pegg) (2:58)

Side 2

1. "The Journeymen" (Steve Ashley) (4:06)
2. "Carolans Draught" (arrangement
   Arrangement
   The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
   
    by Dave Pegg) (3:50)
3. "Level Pegging" (Traditional
   Traditional music
   Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...
   
   , arr. Pegg) (3:03)
4. "Song For Sandy" (Pegg) (4:04)
5. "Lord Mayo" (Trad., arr. Pegg) (4:54)