The Strawbs were an electric folk, prog band whose heyday was in the early 70s. Here’s a great track from Dave Cousins solo album “Two Weeks last Summer:”
I saw the Strawbs in a folk club in Chester UK back when they were still a bluegrass outfit.
Then Hudson & Ford came in and turned them into a sort of pop group with hits like ‘Part of the Union’ for a couple of years. Apparently Cousins didn’t like that direction at all and broke them up.
He reformed a later version but I sort of lost track of them at that point: seems they were mostly active in the US after that.
RIP indeed; always sad to lose a songwriter…