What are /mu/'s thoughts on Strawbs?

Grave New World [A&M, 1972]
An acoustic-gone-electric work about cosmic verities, many of them glum. It even comes with its own woodcuts . . . they're not really woodcuts, but that only goes to prove how plastic everything is these days. I should bless those who cause me pain, it says here, but that surely doesn't apply to a record that gives me the blahs. D

>>127078751 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhy5suv3uzE

Part Of The Union is a banger. Also, pic related

Great band, my 4th most played artist on lastfm. I love the mixture of folk, prog and hippy religious mysticism even though I’m not religious myself. Cousins is an exceptional lyricist too. I met him several times at gigs some tears back, and got him to sign my copy of Old School Songs (acoustic album with Brian Willoughby), which I was obsessed with at the time.
The run from the s/t to Grave New World is their golden period, Witchwood is their most accomplished album imo and in my top 10 goats. After GNW the albums get patchy, but theres still very good stuff on Ghosts, Hero and Heroine and even Nomadness.
After that, meh. You can still hear the competence but as with most rock and folk rock acts who kept going into the late 70s, they lost what made them special by trying to follow trends that didn’t suit them instead of sticking to what they do well and accepting that their some of their audience had moved on. Or maybe they just got older idk.
>>127081686
also that. Sandy and Fairport are some of my other favourites. the best version of Who Knows Where the Time Goes is the one she recorded with the Strawbs. And she sings Tell Me What You See in Me so well, idk if I prefer her version of the one on the s/t

>>127082151
>I met him several times at gigs some tears back
You doing ok now mate?

I adore solo Sandy and Fairport. I need to finally get around to this band.

>>127082304
fine thanks

I only recently discovered them and they have some phenomenal bangers. A perfct mix of folk and prog.

>>127082385
you don't care that he's dead?

>>127082437
fuck I hadnt heard
yeah nah I do care, Im absolutely gutted and close to tears. his musics been a big part of my life