Blue Angel (Strawbs album)

Blue Angel is the 15th studio album by English band Strawbs. It was the first Strawbs album in 12 years to contain new material and featured several different line-ups of musicians from past Strawbs eras. Welsh folk-singer Mary Hopkin featured on many tracks, continuing a working partnership established by Dave Cousins and Brian Willoughby on their album The Bridge, from which several of the tracks on this album are drawn.

Blue Angel
Studio album by
Strawbs
Released2003
RecordedOctober 2002 (2002-10)
GenreProgressive rock
Length55:58
LabelWitchwood
ProducerDave Cousins, Brian Willoughby, Chas Cronk
Strawbs chronology
Tears and Pavan
(2002)		 Blue Angel
(2003)		 Déjà Fou
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The track "Blue Angel" is a rearrangement of the track which appears on Dave Cousins' first solo album Two Weeks Last Summer. "Lay Down" is a re-recorded version of the hit single from Bursting at the Seams. "Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss" is a rearrangement of a track which appears on 1978 studio album Deadlines. The bonus track is the original 1979 version - also released as a single - of a track which later appeared on the 1991 studio album Ringing Down the Years.

Track listing
  1. "Blue Angel" (Dave Cousins) – 11:13
    "Divided"
    "Half Worlds Apart"
    "At Rest"
  2. "Oh So Sleepy" (Cousins) – 3:44
  3. "Further Down the Road" (Cousins) – 3:25
  4. "There Will Come the Day" (Cousins, Don Airey) – 6:05
  5. "Strange Day Over the Hill" (Cousins) – 3:56
  6. "Cry No More" (Cousins, Brian Willoughby) – 3:18
  7. "The Plain" (Cousins) – 5:48
  8. "Do You Remember" (Cousins, Willoughby) – 3:12
  9. "Rhythm of the Night" (Cousins) – 3:19
  10. "Morning Glory" (Cousins) – 4:52
  11. "Sealed With a Traitor's Kiss" (Cousins) – 2:57
  12. "Lay Down" (Cousins) – 4:09

Bonus track
  1. "The King" (Cousins) – 2:38

Personnel
Additional personnel
  • Mary Hopkin – vocals (1,3,4,6,8,10,12)
  • Cathryn Craig – vocals (4)
  • Terry Cassidy – vocals (4)
  • Jana Heller – vocals (9)
  • Roy Hill – vocals (9)
  • Tommy Lundy – vocals (9)
  • Maddy Prior – vocals ("The King")
  • Rick Kemp – vocals ("The King")

Recording
  • Dave Cousins, Brian Willoughby, Chas Cronk – producers
  • Mixed by Dave Cousins and Kenny Denton at KD's Studio, Chiswick, London, October 2002

Release history
Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 2003 (2003) Witchwood CD WMCD2008

References

Notes
  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r639816
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