# RIP Dave Cousins (founding member, lead singer etc. of Strawbs)

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**Created:** [July 16, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-cousins-founding-member-lead-singer-etc-of-strawbs/1020912 "2025-07-16T11:28:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-cousins-founding-member-lead-singer-etc-of-strawbs/1020912/1 "2025-07-16T11:28:59Z")

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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:”

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t-s3rzSmqDw/maxresdefault.jpg "Blue Angel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-s3rzSmqDw)

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**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dave-cousins-founding-member-lead-singer-etc-of-strawbs/1020912/2 "2025-07-16T15:14:43Z")

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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…