Track listing

1. "Part of the Union
   Part of the Union
   "Part of the Union" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams and was the band's most successful single, peaking at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart. The writing credits are given to Richard Hudson and John Ford, but the song may be an adaptation of the...
   
   " (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) – 2:54
2. "I'll Carry on Beside You" (Cousins) – 3:09
3. "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:...
   
   " (Cousins) – 3:50
4. "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...
   
   ) – 2:52
5. "I Turned My Face into the Wind" (Cousins) – 2:42
6. "Song of a Sad Little Girl" (Cousins) – 5:28
7. "Witchwood" (Cousins) – 3:23
8. "Benedictus
   Benedictus (Strawbs song)
   "Benedictus" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1972 album Grave New World.After the departure of Rick Wakeman, band leader Dave Cousins consulted the I Ching asking what to do next...
   
   " (Cousins) – 4:24
9. "Heavy Disguise
   Heavy Disguise
   "Heavy Disguise" is a song by English band Strawbs written by bassist John Ford. The track first appeared on the Grave New World album and features just John Ford from the band singing and accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar backed by "The Robert Kirby Silver Band" – i.e...
   
   " (Ford) – 2:53
10. "Keep the Devil Outside" (Ford) – 3:02
11. "Shine on Silver Sun
    Shine on Silver Sun
    "Shine on Silver Sun" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album Hero and Heroine. It is written by Dave Cousins and was intended as a "come-back" single after the post-"Part of the Union" band split...
    
    " (Cousins) – 2:46
12. "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...
    
    " (Cousins) – 3:55
13. "Lemon Pie
    Lemon Pie (song)
    "Lemon Pie" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album Ghosts.-Lyrical and musical content:The song was written by Dave Cousins and was the second single to be released off the album...
    
    " (Cousins) – 4:03
14. "Martin Luther King's Dream" (Cousins) – 2:53
15. "Tokyo Rosie" (Cousins) – 2:48
16. "Will Ye Go
    Wild Mountain Thyme
    "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will You Go Lassie, Go", is a folk song, rewritten by Francis McPeake, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland...
    
    " (Francis McPeake) – 3:54
17. "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You
    I Only Want My Love to Grow in You
    "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1976 album Deep Cuts.The song was written by Dave Cousins and Chas Cronk and was the first single to be released under their new deal with Oyster Records. This was the first single to be written by the...
    
    " (Cousins, 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...
    
    ) – 3:00
18. "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....
    
    " (Cousins) – 4:31

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 except 9)
• 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 2–8,10,14)
• 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 1,11–13,15–18)
• 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 3–5)
• 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 1–2,6–10,14,16,18)
• 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 11–13,15,17)
• 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 2,6–7,10,14–15)
• 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 1,8,16,18)
• 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 11–13)
• Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby was a British born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He is best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, but has also worked with Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello.-At Cambridge:Patrick...
  
   – keyboards (track 17)
• John Mealing
  John Mealing
  John Mealing is a keyboards player, composer and arranger.After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late-Sixties, he joined the pioneering British jazz-rock band If until they came off the road in 1972...
  
   – keyboards (track 17)
• 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 1–2,6–8,10,14,16,18)
• 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 11–13,15,17)

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