Leader & virtually all active ballad maker is guitar player & singer Dave Cousins.

Besides Cousins, yearn standing players were Tony Hooper, Ron Chesterman, Rick Wakeman (known from Yes), Blue Weaver, who besides played by owning Amen Corner, Mott the Hoople and the Bee Gees, Richard Hudson (Hud) & John Ford, world health organization experienced a select few hits when duo Hudson-Ford, Dave Lambert, Brian Willoughby, Chas Cronk and John Hawken (besides The Nashville Teens, Renaissance, Spooky Tooth, Vinegar Joe). A Strawbs typically played sustaining Sandy Denny (lead singer of Fairport Convention and Fotheringay).

A class action experienced its large commercial profits inside 1973 lining up Cousins, Lambert, Hudson, Ford & Weaver.

When punk wiped out numerous of the progressive acts of the early & mid 70s, Hudsin, Ford & Terry Cassidy combined together by owning Clive Pearce on drums (Hud was so swimming bass, allowing John loose to play guitar) to develop 1979 album Bad Habits as The Monks. the album spawned a surprise there are no Nineteen hit using lone "Nice Legs, Shame About The Face" (perfect). It dabbled by owning Thirties style music withwithin 1980 when Society prior to giving to the psuedo-punk format of the Monks for the watch higher album freed in Canada lone, "Suspended Animation" using a additiin of Brian Willoughby in guitar & Chris Parren on keyboards.

When a album failed to develop farther UK chart profits, a b& were vast withinside Canada particularly, swimming arena gigs when large when a Strawbs ever achieved, and Suspended Animation went pt in Canada as well.

the Video re-release of Suspended Animatiin includes Half a dozen bonus tracks, recorded for a third album, however never prior to freed, by Hudsin, Ford & Cassidy - Huw Gower guests on of these track on lead guitar.

At a beginning of 2005 the Strawbs are however on the road inside England as Acoustic Strawbs meanwhile in the 24th line-higher (based on data from their web site): Cousins, Lambert, Hudson, Ford, Weaver, Willoughby.

Hits

Lay Down (UK #12 1972) A portion of the Union (UK #2 1973) Shine In Silver Sun (UK #34 1973)

Albums

Strawbs (1969) Snake feeder (1970) Merely The Collection Of Antiques & Curious (1970) From either A Witchwood (1971) Grave Up to date Globe (1972) Bursting at a Seams (1973) Hero & Heroine (1974) Ghosts (1974) Nomadness (1975) Deep Cuts (1976) Burning for Smart shoppers (1977) Deadlines (1978) Don't Say Good-by (1987) Ringing Down the Years (1991) Heartbreak Hill (1995) Halcyon Times (1997) Amytal (2002) Deja Fou (2004)

DVDs
Complete Strawbs: A Chiswick Home Concert (2002) Strawbs Sleep in Tokyo DVD, + Grave Just released Globe, a picture (2003) Acoustical Strawbs Sleep in Toronto (2004) Strawbs Survive at Nearfest 2004 (2005)