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Ten Years Of The Strawbs – Part Two 1970-1975

Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, October 1975

THE STRAWBS were the first band to really find commercial success from within a folk environment. Dave Cousins was always clever in his adaptations of traditional themes but by the middle of 1970 it was Rick Wakeman who was causing most of the attention.

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