Cunning Stunts (Caravan album)

Cunning Stunts
Studio album by Caravan
Released	1975 (1975)
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	41:56
Label	Decca
Producer	David Hitchcock
Caravan chronology
Caravan and the New Symphonia (1974) Cunning Stunts (1975) Blind Dog at St. Dunstans (1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Cunning Stunts is the sixth studio album by progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. 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 Again, I'd Do It All Over You" (their second album from 1970) and "Girls Who Grow Plump In the Night" (their fifth album from 1973).

Allmusic described it as "a solid, varied, and interesting album with plenty of character."^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "The Show of Our Lives" (John Murphy, Dave Sinclair) – 5:47
2. "Stuck in a Hole" (Pye Hastings) – 3:09
3. "Lover" (Mike Wedgwood) – 5:06
4. "No Backstage Pass" (Hastings) – 4:34
5. "Welcome the Day" (Wedgwood) – 4:01

Side two

1. "The Dabsong Conshirtoe" (Murphy, Sinclair) – 18:00
2. "Fear and Loathing in Tollington Park Rag" (Geoffrey Richardson) – 1:10

Bonus tracks

8. "Stuck in a Hole" (Hastings) – 3:10
9. "Keeping Back My Love" (Hastings) – 5:14
10. "For Richard" (Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Richard Sinclair) – 18:34

Personnel

• Pye Hastings – electric guitar and acoustic guitar, vocals
• Richard Coughlan – drum kit, drums
• Dave Sinclair – keyboards
• Mike Wedgwood – bass guitar, congas, vocals
• Geoffery Richardson – viola, electric guitar, Western concert flute, flute, night-shift whistle

Additional personnel

• Jimmy Hastings – Brass arranger, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet
• David Hitchcock – producer

References

1. ^ Allmusic

External links

• Foss, Richard. "Allmusic: Cunning Stunts". http://www.allmusic.com/album/r32300. Retrieved 2007-07-15. 
• "Calyx, the Canterbury website". http://calyx.club.fr/caravan/index.html. Retrieved 2008-03-31. 
• Eric, Grey. "Where But For Caravan Would I? No. 6". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070817115246/http://www.caravan-info.co.uk/fanzine/uploads/fanzine6-sep1977.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-15.