Painted Sky

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Painted Sky
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Live album by
Acoustic Strawbs
Released2005 (2005)
Recorded2004 (2004) and 2005 (2005)
Genre folk rock
Producer Steve Crimmel
Acoustic Strawbs chronology
Live at Nearfest
(2005)		Painted Sky
(2005)		 Recollection
(2006)
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Painted Sky is a live album by Acoustic Strawbs.

Track listing

  1. "Oh How She Changed" (Dave Cousins, Tony Hooper)
  2. "Autumn"
    "Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken)
    "Deep Summer Sleep" (Cousins)
    "The Winter Long" (Cousins)
  3. "Cold Steel" (Dave Lambert)
  4. "New World" (Cousins)
  5. "The Antique Suite" (Cousins)
    "The Reaper"
    "We Must Cross the River"
    "Antiques and Curios"
    "Hey It's Been a Long Time"
  6. "Hard Hard Winter" (Cousins, Robert Kirby)
  7. "Midnight Sun" (Chas Cronk, Cousins)
  8. "Grace Darling" (Cousins)
  9. "If" (Cousins)
  10. "Hero and Heroine" (Cousins)

Personnel

Recording

Recorded live at Painted Sky Studios, Cambria, California.

Contents

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Worldwide2005 CD

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