Released May 1969 
Recorded 1969 
Genre Progressive folk 
Length 38:04 
Label A&M 
Producer Gus Dudgeon 


Audio CD (October 7, 2008) 
Original Release Date: August 12, 2008 
Number of Discs: 1 
Format: Import 
Label: Ume Imports 
ASIN: B001ASIRTW 


Track listing
 Side one
"The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" (Dave Cousins) – 3:53 
"That Which Once Was Mine" (Cousins) – 2:49 
"All the Little Ladies" (Cousins, Tony Hooper) – 2:18 
"Pieces of 79 and 15" (Cousins, Hooper) – 3:00 
"Tell Me What You See in Me" (Cousins) – 5:01 
"Oh How She Changed" (Cousins, Hooper) – 2:54 
 Side two
"Or am I Dreaming" (Cousins) – 2:25 
"Where is this Dream of Your Youth" (Cousins) – 3:06 
"Poor Jimmy Wilson" (Cousins) – 2:37 
"Where am I/I'll Show You Where to Sleep" (Cousins) – 3:27 
"The Battle" (Cousins) – 6:34 
 Bonus tracks
The A&M 2008 release also included the following bonus tracks: -

"Interview/That Which Once Was Mine" (Cousins) – 3:41 
"Poor Jimmy Wilson" (Cousins) – 2:28 
"The Battle" (Cousins) – 6:09 
These tracks were recorded on January 12, 1969 (1969-01-12) for John Peel's "Top Gear" radio show on BBC Radio 1

 Personnel
Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars 
Tony Hooper – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars 
Ron Chesterman – double bass 
Some session musicians also appear including: -

John Paul Jones – bass guitar 
Nicky Hopkins – piano 
Richard Wilson – spoken words 
A group of Arabic musicians also feature on the track "Tell Me What You See in Me"

The Strawbs started out in the 60s as an English bluegrass band (!) called the Strawberry Hill Boys, but had become a singer-songwriter folk band (as opposed to traditional folk) by the time they started recording. This is their first properly released album (they had done some wonderful recordings with the lovely vocalist Sandy Denny beforehand, but these were not released until later). The overall style is based around Dave Cousins folk songs, although they've been produced in the studio to take on a little bit of that late 60s pop sound. Overall rather quaint and nostalgiac, but with an underlying tasteful and well-written art to the songs. 
If you like the late 60s original folk scene, particularly the British one, you're in for a treat. The band would go on in the early to mid- 70s to embrace progressive rock, but with a folk basis, so it's only on the Sandy Denny recordings, this album, and the following Dragonfly that we really get to enjoy the full "folk" aspect of the band. 

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