Dave Cousins (Strawbs). Don't forget to subscribe to my channel.

This is my conversation with Dave Cousins. It took place on 7/9/23 from his home near London. Dave Cousins is an English musician who is the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. Cousins is a founding member of Strawbs, which started out as the Strawberry Hill Boys, playing bluegrass music, then moved on to folk, folk rock, and progressive rock. He has also performed as an acoustic duo with Strawbs guitarist Brian Willoughby, and as Acoustic Strawbs with Willoughby (until August 2004), Dave Lambert and Chas Cronk (since September 2004). Cousins grew up in Chiswick, and in the 1970s returned to live there, rehearsing in Chiswick's Mawson Arms pub. He holds a degree in statistics and pure mathematics from the University of Leicester and has also followed a career in radio. He was a producer for Denmark's Radio 1969–1979, was programme controller for Radio Tees (1980–1982), and the managing director of Devon Air in Devon (1982–1990). Since 1991, Cousins has been in charge of St. David's Research, and has been instrumental in many successful franchise applications business ventures involving local radio stations in the UK; stations such as Thames Radio (Kingston-upon-Thames), Radio Victory (Portsmouth) and XFM in London. He ran Witchwood Media Limied, an independent record and publishing company, until the company's catalogue was sold to Cherry Red Limited. Cousins once toured North America and Europe with Acoustic Strawbs, several months every year. In February 2012, a new venture with producer Chris Tsangarides was announced, the Dark Lord Records label; the first release was by band Spit Like This on 21 May. In 2014 Cousins' autobiography Exorcising Ghosts: Strawbs and Other Lives was published by Witchwood Media Limited. In December 2021, Cousins announced his withdrawal from live performance due to health reasons. Discography ============= Strawbs (1969) Dragonfly (1970) Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios (recorded live) (1970) From the Witchwood (1971) Grave New World (1972) Bursting at the Seams (1973) All Our Own Work (1973; recorded 1967) Hero and Heroine (1974) Ghosts (1975) Nomadness (1975) Deep Cuts (1976) Burning for You (1977) Deadlines (1978) Don't Say Goodbye (1987) Ringing Down the Years (1991) Heartbreak Hill (1995) Baroque & Roll (2001) Strawberry Sampler Number 1 (2001; recorded 1969) 30 Years in Rock (2001; Issued with "Wondrous Stories" magazine) Blue Angel (2003) Déjà Fou (2004) Live at Nearfest (2006) The Broken Hearted Bride (2008) Dancing to the Devil's Beat (2009) Hero & Heroine in Ascencia (2011) Prognostic (2014) The Ferryman's Curse (2017) Live in Concert CD / DVD (2020) Best of The Strawbs - Live in Concert Vinyl (2020) Settlement (2021) The Magic Of It All (2023)