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Lambert Cronk
Touch the Earth
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Touch The Earth
2. Every Step Of The Way
3. Reluctant Hero
4. Night
5. Theatre's Falling Down
6. Sleepwalking
7. Smash The Glass
8. Round And Round
9. Only Child
10. Stay With Me
11. One And Only
12. Splash Of Blue

CD Details

All Artists: Lambert Cronk
Title: Touch the Earth
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Witchwood Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 4/23/2007
Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 5065000199395, 506500019939

Synopsis

Album Description

Touch The Earth is a collection of unreleased tracks from former Strawbs members, recorded in the early '80s but unreleased until now! Dave Lambert (guitar) and Chas Cronk (bass) played with Strawbs throughout most of the '70s when the band was touring to promote their hit albums Grave New World, Bursting At The Seams, Hero And Heroine and Ghosts. When Strawbs ceased touring in 1980, the two musicians decided to form Lambert Cronk, alongside latter-day Strawbs members Andy Richards and Tony Fernandez. However, as fate would have it, Trevor Horn invited Andy Richards to become the keyboard sound of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Chas Cronk was invited to join the Steve Hackett Band where he met Nick Magnus, and Tony Fernandez went on a world tour with Rick Wakeman. In the end, an album's worth of Lambert Cronk material was recorded but, as Punk had become the raging flavor of the day, it remained on the shelf. Witchwood. 2007.

CD Reviews

Power-pop that stands the test of time

D. Jennings | upstate NY | 10/08/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Chas Cronk and Dave Lambert are remarkable musicians with impressive pedigrees, and it really shows on this recording. Most of these tracks were recorded in the 1980s, but the newer material blends so seamlessly with the old that you won't be able to tell which is which.

If you were to take all your fave 1980s pop/rock CDs and play them now, many of them would sound a little dated, a bit too AM radio maybe...relying on very simple hooks and obvious lyrics (how many times can you rhyme "dancin'" and "romancin'"?) Lambert Cronk never falls into that trap, never takes the simplest route. The music is complex and layered and the lyrics actually have something to say, well beyond the "ooh baby you're my everything" of your average 80s pop music.

There are no sample tracks on Amazon, but if you go to Lambert Cronk's MySpace page, you can listen to a few. Standouts are "The Reluctant Hero", "A Splash Of Blue", and "The Theatre's Falling Down.""

Disappointingly 80s

Kurt Harding | Boerne TX | 03/31/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"It serves me right. I knew this was recorded in the 1980s before I ordered it so I shouldn't have been surprised to hear on first listen it had eighties written all over it. Though Touch The Earth was originally recorded but not released in the 1980s by former members of the Strawbs, Strawbs fans whose fondest memories of the band are from its heyday would be advised to steer clear of this.

Really the coolest thing about this album is the CD cover. It surprises me, per Dave Lambert's liner notes, that they couldn't get this released back when it was recorded. I think this would have fit right in, stateside anyhow, with the type of schlock that was then inundating the corporate-controlled airwaves. Think Mister Mister, Men at Work and other such rubbish.

Anyway, the title cut and Smash The Glass are prime examples of the kind of pop-laden arena rock I am talking about. The Night and Stay With Me are pure Top-40 style pop. Round and Round is NOT the one Strawbs fans know, its awful. And Only Child is so jivey I find it nearly unlistenable. There are portions of some songs that keep this from being a complete disaster, but overall Touch The Earth is very much a disappointment. I expected better from these guys."