Ten Years of the Strawbs: From Donegan to Dali in Five Easy Stages
Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1975
THROUGH A ten-year period that has seen them frequently under-rated, and a time when they probably least deserved it the subject of mass adulation, the Strawbs have forever remained innovators in the face of change.
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