Dragonfly

The Strawbs  Main Performer

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1 The Weary Song Cousins 3:50
2 Dragonfly Cousins 5:33
3 I Turned My Face into the Wind Cousins 2:38
4 Josephine (For Better or Worse) Cousins 3:17
5 Another Day Cousins 3:03
6 'Til the Sun Comes Shining Through Cousins 3:31
7 Young Again Hooper 2:52
8 The Vision of the Lady in the Lake Cousins 10:47
9 Close Your Eyes Cousins/Hooper :50
10 We'll Meet Again Sometime [*] Cousins 3:15
11 Forever [*] Hooper/Cousins 3:34
12 Another Day [John Peel's "Top Gear" BBC Radio One Show][Live][*][Versio Cousins 3:05
13 We'll Meet Again Sometime [John Peel's "Top Gear" BBC Radio One Show][L Cousins 3:09
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Dragonfly

Audio Compact Disc [Bonus Tracks]

Label: UME Imports

Category: Folk

Dragonfly

UPC: 600753026809

Release Date: 10/07/2008

Original Release Date: 10/07/2008

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [The Weary Song, Dragonfly, I Turned My Face into the Wind, Josephine (For Better or Worse), Another Day, 'Til the Sun Comes Shining Through, Young Again, The Vision of the Lady in the Lake, Close Your Eyes, We'll Meet Again Sometime [*], Forever [*], Another Day [John Peel's "Top Gear" BBC Radio One Show][Live][*][Versio, We'll Meet Again Sometime [John Peel's "Top Gear" BBC Radio One Show][L]
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Richie Unterberger

Dragonfly was the second album to be released by the Strawbs, though much other material unissued in the late '60s that preceded it has since been made available. (In fact, earlier versions of two of the songs, "I Turned My Face Into the Wind," and "Josephine, for Better or for Worse," appear on the archival releases Strawberry Music Sampler, No. 1 and Preserves Uncanned, respectively.) Dragonfly was also the only LP the band recorded with cellist Claire Deniz in the lineup. Though an attractive and competent record, it's not as impressive as their debut. The songs aren't as striking, and the arrangements -- even with the addition of a fourth full-time member in Deniz -- aren't as effective as the mating of folk-rock, medieval, and classical music that characterized the best songs on the first album. It's a more subdued effort, and not as grave in its mood, Deniz's cello doing much to mellow the sound. Dave Cousins retained his appetite for epics, though, in the ten-minute "The Vision of the Lady of the Lake," which had piano by soon to be Strawb Rick Wakeman. When the fuzz guitar unexpectedly piles into the mix a few minutes into the track, joined by strange hissing background noises, it reaches a tense height that the rest of the record doesn't match, though it's accomplished and pleasingly introspective dawn of the '70s British folk-rock. [Mercury UK's 2008 reissue included four bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi