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Released
  
1979 (1979)

Genre
  
folk rock

Recorded
  
May and June 1979

Label
  
Old School Records

Old School Songs is a studio album by singer-songwriter Dave Cousins of the band Strawbs and guitarist Brian Willoughby. It was released in 1979 on Old School Records.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Cousins.

  1. "Grace Darling"
  2. "I've Been My Own Worst Friend"
  3. "Ways and Means"
  4. "You Keep Going Your Way"
  5. "The Battle"
  6. "The Hangman and the Papist"
  7. "Hanging in the Gallery"
  8. "Beside the Rio Grande"
  9. "Josephine, For Better or for Worse"
  10. "Lay Down"
  11. "A Song for Me"

On the original vinyl recording, side 1 comprised tracks 1–5, side 2 tracks 6–11

Bonus tracks

The Japanese re-issue contained two bonus tracks:

  1. "You Never Needed Water" (Cousins)
  2. "Song for Alex" (Cousins, Tony Hooper)

Personnel

  • Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar
  • Brian Willoughby – guitar

    • Recording

    Studio tracks recorded at Music Works Live tracks recorded at the Exmouth Summer Festival on May 27, 1979 (1979-05-27) by Bob Pridden

  • Al Williams – engineer

    • Versions

  • vinyl album SLURP1 (Old School Records, UK, 1979)
  • vinyl album PB2013 (Passprt Records, US, 1980)
  • vinyl album PVC8901 (PVC Records, US, 1980)
  • CD RGF CD 004 (Road Goes On Forever, 1991)
  • CD RATCD 4218 (Muskrat, Japan, 2003)

    • References

    Old School Songs Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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