LIVE AT NEARFEST 2004, 2005
Release date: 11 Aug 2005
Live at NEARfest was recorded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in June 2004. The line-up is singer and songwriter Dave Cousins, with guitarist Dave Lambert, bass player Chas Cronk, drummer Rod Coombes, and keyboard player John Hawken, closing their US Summer tour which re-united the mighty Hero and Heroine band for their first live shows together since 1975. I had travelled with the band for 4 US shows earlier in the tour but was unable to stay for this performance. The tour was fabulous, repeated in the UK a year later.
"If you were at NEARfest this past year you probably witnessed the outpouring of affection for the Strawbs." (Exposé – March 2005)
"The reunion of the classic Hero and Heroine era line-up was the perfect choice for one of the headline slots." (Rob LaDuca – President NEARfest)
Musicians
Dave Cousins (vcls, ac gtrs)
Dave Lambert (vcls, el gtr)
Chas Cronk (bs, vcls)
John Hawken (keyboards)
Rod Coombes (drms, perc)
Track listing
- Out In The Cold
- Round And Round
- Lay Down
- * Burning For Me - intro
- Burning For Me
- * New World - intro
- New World
- Autumn
- Remembering/You And I (When We Were Young)
- Heartbreaker
- This Barren Land
- The River
- Down By The Sea
- Hero And Heroine
- Round And Round (reprise)
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
The tracks marked * are separate tracks from the songs they refer to, though not identified as such on the tray back track listing.
Sleeve Notes
To follow.
