THE Strawbs Acoustic will be appearing at the Plough Arts Centre, Torrington on Thursday, September 2.
The Classic Rock Society recently presented Dave Cousins, leader of The Strawbs, with the Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating thirty years in rock music.
Thirty years on from their huge album chart successes, Grave New World and Bursting at the Seams, The Strawbs now tour three times a year with an acoustic line-up: Dave Cousins on guitar, dulcimer and vocals, Dave Lambert on guitar and vocals, plus relatively new boy, guitarist Brian Willoughby, who took over on lead guitar in 1978 when Dave Lambert went solo.
The Strawbs have enjoyed major success on both sides of the Atlantic. In the early 1970s their hit singles Part of the Union and Lay Down topped the charts.
From the mid-1970s they spent more time in the United States and Canada where their albums reached the charts five years running as they toured with, among others, Santana, The Eagles, Peter Frampton, Blue Oyster Cult, Joe Walsh, King Crimson and Frank Zappa.
Acoustic Strawbs have recently toured Italy to critical acclaim and played three nights at the Edinburgh Festival.
The trio have also finished recording their first studio album in ten years, including several new songs such as There Will Come The Day, written by Dave Cousins for a film on human rights for the Council of Europe and Not All The Flowers Grow, which reflects on the Aberfan tragedy, together with new acoustic versions of classic Strawb tracks.
Acoustic Strawbs play classic Strawbs songs with the integrity and musicianship for which the band has always been recognised.
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