Where But for Caravan Would I?

by Caravan

Where But for Caravan Would I? cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 31 July 2000
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:24:13
  • Community rating: 4.16/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Mike Wedgwood, Richard Sinclair, Terry King, Tony Coe, Peter King, Richard Coughlan, Harry Klein, Steve Miller, Paschal Byrne, David Sinclair, John G. Perry, Mark Powell, Phil Smee, Tony Cox, Mike Cotton, David Hitchcock, Tommy Whittle, John Murphy, Geoffrey Richardson, Pye Hastings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A career compilation named from a line in 'Nine Feet Underground', 'Where But for Caravan Would I?' surveys the Canterbury band's gentle progressive rock, from the debut through the Sinclair cousins' various lineups. Its program favours the melodic, pastoral side of the Canterbury scene.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, folk, progressive, gentle, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Place of My Own (4:07)
  2. Love Song With Flute (4:11)
  3. Magic Man (4:02)
  4. Where But For Caravan Would I (9:02)
  5. A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett (5:08)
  6. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I鈥檇 Do It All Over You (3:09)
  7. And I Wish I Were Stoned (8:22)
  8. Asforteri 25 (1:23)
  9. Golf Girl (6:11)
  10. Nine Feet Underground (22:44)
  11. Winter Wine (7:39)
  12. Love to Love You (3:35)
  13. The Love in Your Eye / To Catch Me a Brother / Subsultus / Debouchment / Tilbury Keeks (12:34)
  14. Memory Lain Hugh (4:53)
  15. Headless (4:23)
  16. L鈥橝uberge du Sanglier / A Hunting We Shall Go / Pengola / Backwards / A Hunting We Shall Go (10:05)
  17. Mirror for the Day (4:45)
  18. The Show of Our Lives (5:46)
  19. Stuck in a Hole (3:10)
  20. No Backstage Pass (4:33)
  21. For Richard (14:24)

Credits

  • Richard Sinclair - bass, guitar, vocals, written-by, bass, written-by, bass, vocals, written-by, bass, vocals, acoustic guitar, written-by, bass, backing vocals, written-by
  • Richard Coughlan - drums, percussion, written-by, drums, percussion, timpani
  • Pye Hastings - guitar, bass, vocals, written-by, guitar, vocals, written-by
  • David Sinclair - organ, vocals, written-by, organ, written-by, organ, piano, vocals, written-by, organ, piano, mellotron, backing vocals, written-by, organ, piano, backing vocals, written-by, organ, piano, electric piano, synthesizer [arp], synthesizer [davoli], keyboards, keyboards, arranged by [strings], written-by
  • Jimmy Hastings - flute [guest], piccolo flute, trombone [guest], flute, tenor saxophone [guest], arranged by [woodwind], arranged by [brass], conductor, flute [solo]
  • Colin Frechter - arranged by [strings]
  • Barry Robinson - oboe [guest], flute, piccolo flute [guest]
  • Steve Miller - piano, electric piano, organ
  • Phil Smee - design
  • Julian Gordon-Hastings - engineer [re-mix]
  • David Hitchcock - producer
  • Terry King - producer
  • Tony Cox - producer
  • John Bell - arranged by [orchestra]
  • Simon Jeffes - arranged by
  • John Murphy - written-by

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