Cunning Stunts (Caravan album)

Cunning Stunts
Cunning Stunts
Studio album by Caravan
Released	25 July 1975
Recorded	September 1974 - May 1975
Studio	Tollington Park Studios, London
Genre	Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length	41:47
Label	Decca
Producer	David Hitchcock
Caravan chronology

Cunning Stunts is the sixth studio album by the progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. It was their first album with the bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Mike Wedgwood. The title of the album is a spoonerism for "Stunning Cunts", which is typical of their cheeky use of language. Three previous Caravan albums with titles that are also sexual plays on words^{[citation needed]} are If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970), In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971) and For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

AllMusic described it as "a solid, varied, and interesting album with plenty of character."^[1]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Show of Our Lives"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	5:47
2.	"Stuck in a Hole"	Pye Hastings	3:09
3.	"Lover"	Mike Wedgwood	5:06
4.	"No Backstage Pass"	Pye Hastings	4:34
5.	"Welcome the Day"	Mike Wedgwood	4:01

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Dabsong Conshirtoe" a. "The Mad Dabsong" b. "Ben Karratt Rides Again" c. "Pro's and Con's" d. "Wraiks and Ladders" e. "Sneaking out the Bare Quare" f. "All Sorts of Unmentionable Things"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	18:00 2:15 2:42 2:29 0:58 4:25 5:11
2.	"Fear and Loathing in Tollington Park Rag"	Geoffrey Richardson	1:10

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
8.	"Stuck in a Hole" (single version)	Pye Hastings	3:10
9.	"Keeping Back My Love"	Pye Hastings	5:14
10.	"For Richard" (Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974)	Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Richard Sinclair	18:34

Pye Hastings – electric guitar and acoustic guitars, vocals
Dave Sinclair – piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards, string co-arrangement on "No Backstage Pass", brass co-arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare Quare"
Geoffrey Richardson – viola, electric guitar, Western concert flute, flute, night-shift whistle
Mike Wedgwood – bass guitar, congas, vocals, Moog brass on "Stuck in a Hole", string arrangement on "Lover" and "No Backstage Pass"
Richard Coughlan – drums

Jimmy Hastings – brass arrangement on "Ben Karratt Rides Again" and "Sneaking out the Bare Quare"
David Hitchcock – producer

In the USA, the album peaked #124 in the Billboard 200 album charts in 1975.^[1]

v t e Caravan
Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Jan Schelhaas Jim Leverton Mark Walker Richard Coughlan Richard Sinclair Dave Sinclair Steve Miller Derek Austin Stuart Evans John G. Perry Mike Wedgwood Dek Messecar Doug Boyle Simon Bentall Jimmy Hastings
Studio albums	Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You In the Land of Grey and Pink Waterloo Lily For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. Dunstans Better by Far The Album Back to Front Cool Water The Battle of Hastings The Unauthorized Breakfast Item Paradise Filter It's None of Your Business
Live albums	Caravan and the New Symphonia Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert Live: Canterbury Comes to London Songs for Oblivion Fishermen Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77 Surprise Supplies Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions
Compilation albums	The Show of Our Lives The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales Travelling Man All Over You...Too The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975 The World Is Yours – The Anthology 1968-1976
Related bands	Bruford Camel Delivery Earthworks Egg Gong Hatfield and the North In Cahoots Khan Matching Mole National Health Soft Heap Soft Machine Uriel The Wilde Flowers