Deep Cuts (Strawbs album) explained

Deep Cuts
Type:	studio
Artist:	Strawbs
Cover:	deep cuts.jpg
Released:	October 1976^[1]
Recorded:	Spring and Summer 1976
Genre:	Progressive rock
Length:	33:43
Label:	Oyster Records, (UK)
Producer:	Rupert Holmes
Prev Title:	Nomadness
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	Burning for You
Next Year:	1977

Deep Cuts is the tenth studio album by English band Strawbs.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 3:00
2. "Turn Me Round" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:42
3. "Hard Hard Winter" (Cousins, Robert Kirby) – 2:54
4. "My Friend Peter" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:15
5. "The Soldier's Tale" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:15

Side two

1. "Simple Visions" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:40
2. "Charmer" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:13
3. "Wasting my Time (Thinking of You)" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:27
4. "Beside the Rio Grande" (Cousins) – 4:18
5. "So Close and Yet So Far Away" (Cousins) – 2:59

Bonus track - Japanese re-issue CD

1. "You Won't See the Light" (Dave Lambert)

Personnel

• Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
• Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
• Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Robert Kirby – backing vocals, mellotron, electric piano, French horn
• John Mealing – piano, organ, electric piano, harpsichord, synthesizer
• Rupert Holmes – piano, harpsichord, clavinet, clarinet

Recording

• Rupert Holmes, Jeffrey Lesser – Producers
• Jeffrey Lesser – Engineer

Recorded and mixed at The Manor, Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Comment
United Kingdom		Oyster	stereo LP	2391 234
United States		Oyster	stereo LP	OY-1-1603
United Kingdom		Oyster	cassette	3177 234
Canada		Oyster	stereo LP	OY-1-1603	63 ^[2]
		Road Goes on Forever	CD	RGF/WCDCD 027	Packaged with Burning for You
Japan		Muskrat	CD	RATCD 4219	includes bonus track
United Kingdom		Witchwood Media	CD	WMCD 2031

References

• Deep Cuts on Strawbsweb
• Sleeve notes AMLH 68331 Deep Cuts
• Deep Cuts in-depth feature on Strawbsweb

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Strawbs . Super Seventies . 8 May 2011.
2. Web site: RPM Top 100 Albums - December 11, 1976.