Recollection is a live album by Strawbs. The tracks were recorded in 1970 on a tour supporting Roy Harper

Roy Harper

Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...

 just prior to the concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival...

 (the recordings from this concert were released as the album Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios

Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios

Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios is a live album by English band Strawbs recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London on . The album reached number 27 in the UK Album Charts....

).

This incarnation of the band had only rehearsed together for a couple of weeks. The recording is the first made with 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...

, John Ford and 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...

 in the line-up and features live re-workings of songs from the Strawbs

Strawbs (album)

Strawbs is a studio album by English band Strawbs, their first Not initially issued in the US, US A&M did issue two singles .-Side one:#"The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" – 3:53#"That Which...

and Dragonfly

Dragonfly (Strawbs album)

Dragonfly is a studio album by English band Strawbs. It contains the lengthy and rather progressive ballad "The Vision of the Lady of the Lake" describing the hardships of a boatman who encounters and battles all kinds of mystical creatures on a lake, with a sword that was given to him by the lady...

albums as well as alternative recordings of some of the Antiques and Curios songs.

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Cousins

Dave Cousins

Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...

 unless indicated otherwise

1. "We'll Meet Again Sometime" – 4:12
2. "Or Am I Dreaming" – 2:29
3. "Song of a Sad Little Girl" – 5:29
4. "That Which Once was Mine" – 3:33
5. "Fingertips" –6:10
6. "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus
   The Man Who Called Himself Jesus
   "The Man Who Called Himself Jesus" is a song by English band Strawbs written by Dave Cousins. It appears on their album Strawbs. An alternative mix of the song may be found on the 2006 box set A Taste of Strawbs.-B-Side:...
   
   " – 4:35
7. "Temperament of Mind" (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...
   
   ) – 5:28
8. "Josephine, for Better or for Worse" – 3:27
9. "The Antique Suite" – 12:15

   "The Reaper"

   "We Must Cross the River"

   "Antiques and Curios"

   "Hey It's Been a Long Time"

10. "The Battle" – 5:52
11. "Where is This Dream of Your Youth?" – 9:31
12. "Dance On
    Dance On
    Dance On! is an instrumental by the British guitar group, The Shadows. It went to number 1 in the UK. It was also recorded in a vocal version by British female soloist Kathy Kirby, whose version reached number 11 in the UK chart in September 1963....
    
    " (Valerie Murtagh
    Valerie Murtagh
    Valerie Murtagh - pseudonym Valerie Avon - is an English singer and songwriter. Originally she was a member of The Avons.-Career:...
    
    , Elaine Murtagh, Ray Adams) – 2:22

Personnel

• Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins
  Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s, 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...
  
  , banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
  
• 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
  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...
  
  , tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  
• 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...
  
   – 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...
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , harpsichord
  Harpsichord
  A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
  
  , celesta
  Celesta
  The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
  
  
• 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....
  
  , vocals
• 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...
  
   – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , sitar
  Sitar
  The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
  
  , vocals

Cover

The photographs used were taken by Van Hallan (1970) from Dave Cousins' own collection and Geraldine Parkinson (2006). Sleeve notes by Dave Cousins.

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Comments
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...		Witchwood Media	compact disc Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	WMCD 2033	Recorded in 1970