Capability Brown biography 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 bands material, and the band also excelled in covers of obscure material (Rare Birds Beautiful Scarlet and Redman, Argents Liar, Affinitys I Am And So Are You and Steely Dans Midnight Cruiser). Capability Browns 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. Studio Album, released in 1973 Songs / Tracks Listing 1.I Am And So Are You 2.Sad Am I 3.Midnight Cruiser 4.Keep Death Off The Road (Drive On The Pavement) 5.Circumstances: (In Love, Past, Present, Future Meet) Line-up / Musicians -Tony Ferguson / vocals, guitar, bass -Dave Nevin / keyboards, guitar, vocals, bass -Kenny Rowe / bass, vocals, percussion -Grahame White / vocals, guitar, bass -Joe Williams / vocals, percussion -Roger Willis / vocals, drums, keyboards
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