Deep Cuts (Strawbs album)

Deep Cuts
Studio album by Strawbs
Released	October 1976[1]
Recorded	Spring and Summer 1976
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	33:43
Label	Oyster Records, (UK)
Producer	Rupert Holmes
Strawbs chronology
Nomadness (1975) Deep Cuts (1976) Burning for You (1977)
Singles from Deep Cuts
"I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" "Charmer"
Alternative Album Cover
2 CD set cover

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic[2]

Deep Cuts is a studio album by English band Strawbs.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I Only Want My Love to Grow in You" (Dave Cousins, Chas Cronk) – 3:00
2. "Turn Me Round" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:42
3. "Hard Hard Winter" (Cousins, Robert Kirby) – 2:54
4. "My Friend Peter" (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:15
5. "The Soldier's Tale" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:15

Side two

1. "Simple Visions" (Cousins, Cronk) – 4:40
2. "Charmer" (Cousins, Cronk) – 3:13
3. "Wasting My Time" (Thinking of You) (Cousins, Cronk) – 2:27
4. "Beside the Rio Grande" (Cousins) – 4:18
5. "So Close and yet so Far Away" (Cousins) – 2:59

Bonus track

The Japanese re-issue CD offered the following as a bonus track:

1. You Won't See the Light (Dave Lambert)

Personnel

• Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
• Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
• Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion

with

• Robert Kirby – backing vocals, mellotron, electric piano, French horn
• John Mealing – piano, organ, electric piano, harpsichord, synthesizer
• Rupert Holmes – piano, harpsichord, clavinet, clarinet

Recording

• Rupert Holmes, Jeffrey Lesser – Producers
• Jeffrey Lesser – Engineer

Recorded and mixed at The Manor, Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog	Comment
United Kingdom	1976 (1976)	Oyster	stereo LP	2391 234
United States	1976 (1976)	Oyster	stereo LP	OY-1-1603
United Kingdom	1976 (1976)	Oyster	cassette	3177 234
	1996 (1996)	Road Goes on Forever	CD	RGF/WCDCD 027	Packaged with Burning for You
Japan	2003 (2003)	Muskrat	CD	RATCD 4219	includes bonus track
United Kingdom	2006 (2006)	Witchwood Media	CD	WMCD 2031

References

• Deep Cuts on Strawbsweb
• Sleeve notes AMLH 68331 Deep Cuts
• Deep Cuts in-depth feature on Strawbsweb

Notes

1. ^ "The Strawbs". Super Seventies. http://www.superseventies.com/spstrawbs.html. Retrieved May 8, 2011. 
2. ^ Deep Cuts (Strawbs album) at Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-06-20.