The Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose

Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose
	The Love Records release
Studio album by Wigwam
Released	April 1976
Recorded	January 1976
Studio	The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire
Genre	Progressive rock Pop-Rock
Length	36:11
Label	Love Records
Producer	Ronnie Leahy
Wigwam chronology
Alternative cover
	International Virgin Records release

Lucky Golden Stripes and Starpose is the sixth studio album released by Wigwam in April 1976. The album was recorded at Virgin records’ The Manor in Oxfordshire in January 1976 with Scottish musician Ronnie Leahy in the producers’ chair. The album had a double release by Love Records in Finland and Virgin internationally. The track listings were identical but the releases had different art work.

Lucky Golden Stripes And Starpose continued the theme of the previous album Nuclear Nightclub in having a pop-rock style. There were however still prog-rock elements to the album and the track Colossus is a stand-out piece of classic 70s prog-rock. The album did strangely not include the single Tramdriver/Wardance' which had been released the previous year. Hopes that it would be added came to pass in 2010 when the whole album including these tracks was re-mastered and re-released on Esoteric Recordings. The album was recorded at the Virgin Manor (UK), January 1976, except "Tramdriver" recorded at Manor Mobile and Kingsway Studio August 1975 and "Wardance" recorded at Marcus Music Studio, Stockholm November 1975.

Artwork

As noted above, there were two versions of art work. The Finnish release had art work by former Wigwam bassist Mats Huldén. This depicted a group of US 19th century Cavalry soldiers on horses and with weapons depicting the middle ages. Wigwam were hoping to break into the US market and this hope is more clearly sign-posted on the international release. The cover design by Clive Arrowsmith shows headshots of the band within the US Flag.

Reception

The album has received mixed reviews. This reflects the bands continued move away from their prog-rock routes. The album was not seen as good as its predecessor Nuclear Nightclub and to be of varied quality, with some songs poorly arranged. Some tracks such as the title track and Colossus are highly regarded. Progarchives.com found the album to be Good, but not essential[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Sane Again"	Pembroke	Pembroke	3:37
2.	"International Disaster"	Pembroke	Pembroke	2:41
3.	"Timedance"		Pembroke, Groundstroem, Hietanen, Rechardt, Österberg	1:07
4.	"Colossus"	Pembroke	Rechardt	6:30
5.	"Eddie And The Boys"	Pembroke	Rechardt	4:03
6.	"Lucky Golden Stripes And Starpose"	Pembroke	Rechardt	6:36
7.	"June Maybe Too Late"	Pembroke	Pembroke	3:35
8.	"Never Turn You In"	Pembroke	Pembroke, Rechardt	5:03
9.	"In A Nutshell"	Pembroke, Rechardt	Rechardt	3:47

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
10.	"Tramdriver"	Pembroke	Pembroke	3:48
11.	"Wardance"	Pembroke	Rechardt	3:43

Personnel

The line-up was identical to the previous album apart from the replacement of Esa Kotilainen with Hessu Hietanen on keyboards.

Mosse Groundstroem – bass
Hessu Hietanen – keyboards
Ronnie Österberg – drums, percussion
Jim Pembroke – vocals, piano
Pekka Rechardt – guitar
Paavo Maijanen – backing vocals

Production

Engineer – John Eden
Mastered By – Ben Wiseman
Producer – Paavo Maijanen (tracks: 10), Ronnie Leahy (tracks: 1 to 9, 11)
Recorded By – Paavo Maijanen
Remastered By – Pauli Saastamoinen

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References

"THE LUCKY GOLDEN STRIPES AND STARPOSE". www.progarchives.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.

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[1] "THE LUCKY GOLDEN STRIPES AND STARPOSE". www.progarchives.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.