Track Listing

1. Autumn: Heroine's Theme/Deep Summer's Sleep/The Winter Long - The Strawbs, Hawken, John
2. Sad Young Man
3. Just Love
4. Shine On Silver Sun
5. Hero and Heroine
6. Midnight Sun - The Strawbs, Cronk, Charles
7. Out in the Cold
8. Round and Round
9. Lay a Little Light on Me
10. Hero's Theme - The Strawbs, Lambert, Dave
11. Still Small Voice
12. Lay a Little Light on Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66525 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Digitally remastered reissue of the group's 1974 A&M album with two tracks from the album's sessions added as bonuses: the previously unreleased 'Still Smart Voice' & an early version of 'Lay A Little Light'. 12 tracks total. 'Hero And Heroine' was their first album to break the U.S. top 100 & features the line-up of Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert, John Hawken, Chas. Cronk and Rod Coombes. 1998 A&M release.

Customer Reviews

HERO & HEROINE - STRAWBS
Very good album.Bought it for "Autumn".I enjoy every track.
The powerful way the organ sounds on the title track
and on "Round and Round",jumps right out and wants to be noticed.
Shows what you can do with just a few notes if you know what you
are doing.
One warning - If you don't like the singer,you won't like them
as he sings with a British accent.
Nice Album.

The Best Strawbs recording
Short and sweet I have all of the strawbs recordings and this is by far the masterpiece from the group!!!!

Solid Prog, Blast from the Past
The product description says 1974 A&M release. I am certain I first heard this in 1973. It might have been a promotional copy or a different UK release date. I was living in Trinidad managing a ganja plantation (kinda) at the time. Fresh music was far and few in between then. It came via a British friends UK visit. It was an authentic hippie pseudo-spiritual existence. So when spinning this LP, besides the nice prog music, we found all sorts of deeper meanings and messages. I hope you are laughing. Maybe you had have been there. I've listened to and purchased other Strawbs releases but none reach the accomplishments of this one IMO. Cousins vocals may be an acquired taste for some but will never be mistaken for anyone else by all.