Cunning Stunts (Caravan album)

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Released July 25, 1975 Artist Caravan Label Decca Records		Length 41:47 Release date 25 July 1975 Producer Dave Hitchcock

Recorded September 1974 - May 1975 Cunning Stunts (1975) Blind Dog at St. Dunstans (1976) Genres Progressive rock, Canterbury scene Similar Caravan albums, Canterbury scene albums, Other albums

Cunning Stunts is the sixth studio album by the progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. It was their first album with the bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Mike Wedgwood. The title of the album is a spoonerism for 'Stunning Cunts', which is typical of their cheeky use of language. Two previous Caravan albums with titles that are also sexual plays on words are If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970) and For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973).

Reception

AllMusic described it as "a solid, varied, and interesting album with plenty of character."

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Bonus tracks

Personnel

Pye Hastings – electric guitar and acoustic guitars, vocals

Dave Sinclair – keyboards, string co-arrangement on "No Backstage Pass", brass co-arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare "Quare"

Geoffery Richardson – viola, electric guitar, Western concert flute, flute, night-shift whistle

Mike Wedgwood – bass guitar, congas, vocals, Moog brass on "Stuck in a Hole", string arrangement on "Lover" and "No Backstage Pass"

Richard Coughlan – drums

Additional personnel

Jimmy Hastings – brass arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare "Quare"

David Hitchcock – producer

Chart performance

In the USA, the album peaked #124 in the Billboard 200 album charts in 1975.

Songs

1The Show of Our Lives5:46
2Stuck in a Hole3:10
3Lover5:06

References

Cunning Stunts (Caravan album) Wikipedia

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