the strawbs / albums

23,675 plays
16 SHARES
3 FAVS
2 fans

- Hero and Heroine
- - 2,475 plays
  - 0 favs
  - 0 shares
The Strawbs
Released 1974

Hero and Heroine
03:21
804 plays

Just Love
03:40
322 plays

Autumn: Heroine's Theme/Deep Summer's Sleep/The Winter Long
08:25
270 plays

- Add to cart
- buy
- share

songs

- 1
- Autumn: Heroine's Theme/Deep Summer's Sleep/The Winter Long
- 08:25
- 270 plays

- 2
- Sad Young Man
- 04:08
- 139 plays

- 3
- Just Love
- 03:40
- 322 plays

- 4
- Shine on Silver Sun
- 02:47
- 123 plays

- 5
- Hero and Heroine
- 03:21
- 804 plays

- 6
- Midnight Sun
- 03:12
- 230 plays

- 7
- Out in the Cold
- 03:18
- 125 plays

- 8
- Round and Round
- 04:43
- 215 plays

- 9
- Lay a Little Light on Me
- 03:27
- 125 plays

- 10
- Hero's Theme
- 02:27
- 122 plays

album review

The group's ballsiest album to date, a surging, hard-rocking follow-up to Bursting at the Seams, which debuted a new lineup, Richard Hudson, John Ford, and Blue Weaver having left to form their own group. In their places, ex-Nashville Teens keyboardman John Hawken and the more muscular rhythm section of Rod Coombes and Chas Cronk make their debut, on what is the Strawbs' first fully electric album. Dave Cousins' songwriting (augmented by Dave Lambert, who also contributes some slashing electric lead guitar) is still as romantic as ever in various spots ("Shine On Silver Sun," "Deep Summer's Sleep"), but also boasts dark visions ("Round and Round") which, coupled with new band's muscular playing, made the Strawbs one of the hardest-rocking progressive bands in the world. They should have been able to blow acts like the Moody Blues off the stage, so what went wrong with this album and the tour? One suspects it was a little too serious and complex for kids who were just looking for a soundtrack to their drug experiences, and it rocked too hard for the "sensitive" English-major types who got off on Cousins' lyrics -- in a sense, the Strawbs were squeezed out of the middle in a very small-scale, subtle 1970s version of the old folk-versus-rock battles of the '60s. Hero and Heroine deserved better, being one of the best guitar-driven progressive rock albums of its period. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide