Tag Archives: John Ford

STRAWBS’ BBC Archives Get Boxed Up

January 30, 2026

They may have established a special connection with radio later in the day, when Dave Cousins temporarily left music to rule the waves in a different way, but STRAWBS spend a lot of time playing for various Beeb programmes back … Continue reading →

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VELVET OPERA – Ride A Hustler’s Dream

August 21, 2025

CBS 1969 / Think Like A Key 2025 Sophomore effort from future stars, an album by a team who had no future, a record that still stays strong a few decades later. It seemed quite an understandable desire to expand … Continue reading →

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STRAWBS Release Video Of Their Symphonic Outing

May 9, 2025

It was way back in 2009, when STRAWBS were celebrating their four decades on the scene, that the veterans – Dave Cousins, , , Rod Coombes and – graced the stage in a very special company. On a few songs … Continue reading →

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ELMER GANTRY’S VELVET OPERA – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera

April 19, 2025

Direction 1968 / Think Like A Key 2025 British purveyors of pop-embroidered psychedelia set their stakes for late-Sixties conquest of penumbral stalk-rock. From today’s perspective, England’s post-“Sgt. Pepper” landscape seems to have been littered with pseudo-concept platters of which too … Continue reading →

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STRAWBS – The Magic Of It All

October 4, 2023

Esoteric Antenna 2023 The last hurrah of English institution whose intrepid spirit should live on. It could be this ensemble’s last album anyway but, when the cancer-battling Dave Cousins called his colleagues to join him in Cape Town to work … Continue reading →

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