CAPABILITY BROWN
''FROM SCRATCH''
1972
48:06
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1 Beautiful Scarlet 04:55 (Rare Bird)
2 Do You Believe 04:25 (Dave Nevin)
3 The Band 03:41 (Tony Ferguson)
4 Garden 03:20 (Tony Ferguson)
5 Liar 07:15 (Russ Ballard)
6 No Range 04:07 (Dave Nevin)
7 I Will Be There 03:20 (Tony Ferguson)
8 Redman 03:23 (Andy Curtis, Steve Gould, Dave Kaffinetti, Fred Kelly)
9 Day In Day Out 03:48 (Dave Nevin)
10 Sole Survivor: A) Scape; B) Sole Survivor; C) Cosmic Ride; D) Time Machine 09:46 (Tony Ferguson)
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Tony Ferguson/Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Dave Nevin/Keyboards, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vocals
Grahame White/Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Kenny Rowe/Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Roger Willis/Vocals, Drums, Keyboards
Joe Williams/Vocals, Percussion
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BIOGRAPHY/
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Capability Brown had and still have a cult following in UK music history as a "progressive" band, ultimately based on an outstanding piece from their second album, Voice. But largely their range covered mainstream pop music, treated in an "arty", alternative fashion. The band was a six-piece in which everyone sang and played instruments. The line-up consisted of Tony Ferguson (guitar, bass), Dave Nevin (keyboards, guitar, bass), Kenny Rowe (bass, percussion), Grahame White (guitar, lute, balalaika, keyboards), Joe Williams (percussion) and Roger Willis (drums, keyboards).
Ferguson and Nevin wrote the majority of the band's material, and the band also excelled in covers of obscure material (Rare Bird's Beautiful Scarlet and Redman, Argent's Liar, Affinity's I Am And So Are You and Steely Dan's Midnight Cruiser).
Capability Brown's forte was vocalizing. Together they sounded not unlike The Association: a massed choir of voices, ranging from baritone to high clean falsettos. Their first album, From Scratch, which included Liar, was average and unexceptional. The second album Voice, released in 1973, was their claim to fame, incorporating an over-20-minute richly melodic piece called Circumstances (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) - a stunning piece of music incorporating keyboards, a cappela voices, synthesizers and mellotrons, solo vocals, delicate harpsichord-like acoustic guitar sections, powerful electric guitar chords and massed vocal choirs.
The band did not manage to record again after this, and in 1974 Tony, Roger and Graham were recruited by friend and Christie member Roger Flavell to join his group, Christie for a tour of South America. Thus Capability Brown was no more.
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''FROM SCRATCH''
1972
48:06
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1 Beautiful Scarlet 04:55 (Rare Bird)
2 Do You Believe 04:25 (Dave Nevin)
3 The Band 03:41 (Tony Ferguson)
4 Garden 03:20 (Tony Ferguson)
5 Liar 07:15 (Russ Ballard)
6 No Range 04:07 (Dave Nevin)
7 I Will Be There 03:20 (Tony Ferguson)
8 Redman 03:23 (Andy Curtis, Steve Gould, Dave Kaffinetti, Fred Kelly)
9 Day In Day Out 03:48 (Dave Nevin)
10 Sole Survivor: A) Scape; B) Sole Survivor; C) Cosmic Ride; D) Time Machine 09:46 (Tony Ferguson)
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Tony Ferguson/Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Dave Nevin/Keyboards, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Vocals
Grahame White/Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Kenny Rowe/Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Roger Willis/Vocals, Drums, Keyboards
Joe Williams/Vocals, Percussion
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BIOGRAPHY/
www.progarchives.com
Capability Brown had and still have a cult following in UK music history as a "progressive" band, ultimately based on an outstanding piece from their second album, Voice. But largely their range covered mainstream pop music, treated in an "arty", alternative fashion. The band was a six-piece in which everyone sang and played instruments. The line-up consisted of Tony Ferguson (guitar, bass), Dave Nevin (keyboards, guitar, bass), Kenny Rowe (bass, percussion), Grahame White (guitar, lute, balalaika, keyboards), Joe Williams (percussion) and Roger Willis (drums, keyboards).
Ferguson and Nevin wrote the majority of the band's material, and the band also excelled in covers of obscure material (Rare Bird's Beautiful Scarlet and Redman, Argent's Liar, Affinity's I Am And So Are You and Steely Dan's Midnight Cruiser).
Capability Brown's forte was vocalizing. Together they sounded not unlike The Association: a massed choir of voices, ranging from baritone to high clean falsettos. Their first album, From Scratch, which included Liar, was average and unexceptional. The second album Voice, released in 1973, was their claim to fame, incorporating an over-20-minute richly melodic piece called Circumstances (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) - a stunning piece of music incorporating keyboards, a cappela voices, synthesizers and mellotrons, solo vocals, delicate harpsichord-like acoustic guitar sections, powerful electric guitar chords and massed vocal choirs.
The band did not manage to record again after this, and in 1974 Tony, Roger and Graham were recruited by friend and Christie member Roger Flavell to join his group, Christie for a tour of South America. Thus Capability Brown was no more.
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