Old School Songs is a studio album

Album

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 by singer-songwriter Dave Cousins

Dave Cousins

Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...

 of the band Strawbs and guitarist

Guitarist

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 Brian Willoughby

Brian Willoughby

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Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Cousins.

1. "Grace Darling
   Grace Darling (song)
   "Grace Darling" is a song by English band Strawbs, featured on their album Ghosts . The track was recorded at in the chapel of the Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, which the members of the band Genesis had attended in the 1960s, and which Strawbs' producer at the time, Tom Allom, had also...
   
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2. "I've Been My Own Worst Friend"
3. "Ways and Means"
4. "You Keep Going Your Way"
5. "The Battle"
6. "The Hangman and the Papist"
7. "Hanging in the Gallery"
8. "Beside the Rio Grande"
9. "Josephine, For Better or for Worse"
10. "Lay Down
    Lay Down
    "Lay Down" is a song by English band Strawbs featured on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams. It peaked at number 12 in the UK Singles Chart....
    
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11. "A Song for Me"

On the original vinyl recording, side 1 comprised tracks 1–5, side 2 tracks 6–11

Bonus tracks

The Japanese re-issue contained two bonus tracks:

1. "You Never Needed Water" (Cousins)
2. "Song for Alex" (Cousins, Tony Hooper
   Tony Hooper
   Tony Hooper is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known as a founder-member of Strawbs together with Dave Cousins. He left Strawbs in 1972 after their album Grave New World, when it became obvious that the band was moving further away from its folk roots towards rock and...
   
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Personnel

• Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Brian Willoughby – guitar

Recording

Studio tracks recorded at Music Works
Live tracks recorded at the Exmouth

Exmouth

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 Summer Festival on by Bob Pridden

• Al Williams – engineer

Versions

• vinyl
  Gramophone record
  A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
  
  album SLURP1 (Old School Records , UK, 1979)
• vinyl album PB2013 (Passprt Records, US, 1980)
• vinyl album PVC8901 (PVC Records, US, 1980)
• CD RGF CD 004 (Road Goes On Forever, 1991)
• CD RATCD 4218 (Muskrat, Japan, 2003)