Strawbs

Label: Esoteric AntennaDate: February 26, 2021Produced by: Blue WeaverAlbum length: 39.01 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Settlement« is the twenty-first studio album from the English prog rock patriarchs Strawbs, who will…

Strawbs went on to release quite a few much better albums than the still fairly naive, almost entirely acoustic, beginner-level "Dragonfly", but it's still an important record when it comes to its influence on the development of the British…

The Strawbs' debut was a thoroughly solid start to the long and successful career of these eternal prog folk rock innovators, but it was still relatively far from the depth and polish of their best work, once they finally discovered the…

Inspired from start to finish, "Dancing To The Devil's Beat" proves that after more than four decades Strawbs are nowhere near ready for the scrapheap. They age like wine: the older they get, the better they get.

After the tough test of Wakeman's departure, Strawbs came out even stronger and marched into their most fruitful creative stretch with this classic.