Ghosts (Strawbs album)

Infobox Album
Name = Ghosts
Type = studio
Artist = Strawbs


Released = 1975
Recorded = July - September 1974
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 41:04
Label = A&M, (UK)
Producer = Tom Allom
Reviews =
*All Music Guide rating|4.5|5 [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fpxq85ldje link]
Last album = "Strawbs by Choice
(1974)
This album = "Ghosts"
(1975)
Next album = "Nomadness"
(1975)
Misc = Singles
Name = Ghosts
Type = album
single 1 = Grace Darling
single 2 = Lemon Pie

"Ghosts" is a studio album by English band Strawbs.

Track listing

ide one

#"Ghosts" (Dave Cousins) – 8:31
#:"Sweet Dreams"
#:"Night Light"
#:"Guardian Angel"
#:"Night Light"
#"Lemon Pie" (Cousins) – 4:03
#"Starshine/Angel Wine" (Chas Cronk) – 5:15
#"Where Do You Go (When You Need a Hole to Crawl In)" (Cousins) – 3:02

ide two

#"The Life Auction" – 6:52
#:"Impressions of Southall from the Train" (Cousins, John Hawken)
#:"The Auction" (Cousins, Dave Lambert)
#"Don't Try to Change Me" (Lambert) – 4:28
#"Remembering" (Hawken) – 0:54
#"You and I (When We Were Young)" (Cousins) – 4:04
#"Grace Darling" (Cousins) – 3:55

Tracks 7 and 8 are combined on the CD versions of this album.

Bonus track

The following appears a bonus track on the A&M remastered CD.

#"Changes Arrange Us" (Rod Coombes) – 3:55

Unusually, Rod Coombes sings lead vocals on this track and plays guitar.

Personnel

*Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, recorder
*Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*John Hawken – piano, electric piano, harpsichord, mellotron, Moog synthesizer, Hammond organ, pipe organ
*Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
*Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, congas, percussion

with

*Claire Deniz – cello on "Starshine/Angel Wine"

Recording

*Tom Allom – Producer and Engineer

Recorded at The Manor, Kidlington, Oxfordshire; Sound Techniques, London; TPA, London and the chapel of Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Release history

References

* [http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/@f/f_ghosts.htm "Ghosts" on Strawbsweb]
*Sleeve notes CD 540 937-2 "Ghosts"