CD

UK release with bonus tracks (Witchwood Media, 2010)

UK promo release

Japanese facsimile card sleeve CD release with bonus tracks (Airmail Airac 1702, 2013)

All Our Own Work, boxed set of multiple Japanese facsimile card sleeve CDs (Airmail, 2013)

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CD

UK release

All Our Own Work - The Complete Sessions Witchwood Media CD release, 2010, with bonus tracks: WMCD 2047 (Witchwood Media, 2010) . June 2010 saw the release on CD of the complete Sandy and the Strawbs sessions which took place in Copenhagen in 1967. This is the first time that the whole of the All Our Own Work album has been legitimately released on CD. The lavishly illustrated packaging includes extracts from Dave Cousins' diary of the time and never before seen pictures of Sandy.

The master tapes were remastered by Chris Tsangarides and sound fantastic, bringing out elements of the music we've never heard before on either the old Pickwick release in 1973 or the Hannibal release (Sandy And The Strawbs). And there are various demos and outtakes from the period, including two Dave Cousins songs "Indian Summer" and "The Falling Leaves" which have never before seen the light of day, and a version of "Pieces of 79 and 15" with a Cousins lead vocal.

Outer sleeve

Inner panels

Booklet - front (p1) and back (p8)

Booklet - pages 2&3

Booklet - pages 4&5

Booklet - pages 6 & 7

CD body

UK promo release

All Our Own Work - The Complete Sessions Witchwood Media CD release, 2010, with bonus tracks: WMCD 2047 (Witchwood Media, 2010) . 4pp (only 1-side printed) foldaround booklet, with CD inside.

Outer sleeve

CD

Japanese release

All Our Own Work, Japanese facsimile card sleeve CD release with bonus tracks: (Airmail Airac 1702, Japan, 2013) . Witchwood Media licensed The Complete Sessions (amongst others) to Air Mail who brought out attractively packaged facsimile card sleeve versions in 2013. The front and back covers are exact replicas of the original vinyl album, listing only the original 12 tracks, though of course all 20 are provided on CD. There's an Obi, which advertises Air Mail releases of Two Weeks Last Summer, Deep Cuts and Burning For You. Nice touch - the CD body is got up to look like the original blue Hallmark label.

Inside the sleeve, there's a cutdown version of the UK booklet - only 4pp, but there's a Japanese black and white 2-sided 2CDx2CD sized insert: the front has the track listing; the back has the lyrics, but only for the original 12 tracks. The CD itself comes in a protective fabric bag.

Front and back covers

Insert

CD and Obi

BOXED SET

All Our Own Work - multiple CD box, facsimile card sleeves with Obi: no number for set (Airmail, Japan, 2013). Airmail licensed a number of CD from Witchwood Media, and chose to package them into a Sandy Denny and the Strawbs: All Our Own Work boxed set. There's one (at the time of writing) on offer at: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STRAWBS-JAPAN-8TITLES-MINI-LP-CD-PROMO-BOX-BA81-/271685491701, which suggests that all eight Airmail CD releases are included in the box. However, whilst all eight will fit in the box, the version I bought had only five, the AIRAC 170X numbered releases:

The five in my copy:

• AIRAC 1702 - Sandy Denny & The Strawbs (packaged to look like the original album, the CD is the 2010 Complete Sessions released by Witchwood Media) - see above.
• AIRAC 1703 - Dave Cousins: Two Weeks Last Summer (packaged to look like the original album, the CD has the two bonus tracks included on Japanese releases).
• AIRAC 1704 - Strawbs: Deep Cuts (packaged to look like the original album, the CD has the bonus Lambert-written track included on later CD releases "You Won't See The Light").
• AIRAC 1705 - Strawbs: Burning For You (packaged to look like the original album, the CD has the bonus track "Joey And Me" included on later CD releases).
• AIRAC 1706 - Strawbs: Deadlines (packaged to look like the original album, the CD is in fact the extended edition, with multiple bonus tracks, released by Witchwood Media).

The extra three:

• AIRAC 5006 - Strawberry Sampler (very different packaging, but same musical content as Witchwood Media release)>
• AIRAC 5007 - Of A Time (only slightly different packaging, cover has a brown border, but same musical content as Witchwood Media release)>
• AIRAC 5008 - Recollections (very different packaging, but same musical content as Witchwood Media release)>

I'll try and find out what the true position was.

These original photos of the box etc. (including only the 5 CDs I received) are taken by me! If you use them on Ebay, please credit Strawbsweb. The box was a very limited edition it seems, and very few seem to come up for sale.

Front, back and spine

Box end and contents

VINYL REISSUE

All Our Own Work - The Complete Sessions, 2LP Vinyl reissue, with bonus tracks (Numerophon, 2014). In 2014, vinyl specialist Numerophon produced, under licence from Witchwood Media, a splendid 2LP vinyl version of the Complete Sessions CD, with 6 tracks per side and different packaging (see cover shot below). Available from the Numerophon website at USD20 plus p&p.

Front and back covers

Inside covers

Labels

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