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Dave Cousins |
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Dave Cousins (b.
1945) is the leader, singer, guitarist and songwriter of The Strawbs.
Originally influenced by the late 50s skiffle boom Dave was on banjo in
a jug-band called Gin Bottle Four, then turned to folk in the early 60s
with The Strawberry Hill Boys, shortened 1967 to The Strawbs.
In the
summer of that year Sandy Denny joined the group for a while and a tape
of their songs was by DJ Tom Browne brought to the attention of Karl
Emil Knudsen. He offered the studio in Vanløse Bio, Copenhagen, to The
Strawbs and off they went recording during daytime and performing at the
ViseVerseHus in Tivoli at night.
The result was sent by Karl Emil
Knudsen to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss of A&M Records in Los Angeles, who
signed The Strawbs (now minus Sandy Denny) as their first British band.
The Danish recording was released on CD in 1991 as ‘Sandy Denny and the
Strawbs – The Original 1967 Sessions including previously unreleased
tracks’. At the end of the 60s The Strawbs returned to Copenhagen for
more recordings at the Rosenberg Studio, which became part of the
1970-album ‘Dragonfly’ and again for the 1974-album ‘Hero and Heroine’.
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Even today after half a century Dave Cousins carries on with a
successful career, touring on and off with both electric and acoustic Strawbs, his Blue Angel Orchestra and solo.
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