CATCH A SINGING BIRD ON THE ROAD

The Private Album [Editorial]

„While my pedal steel gently weeps...“ – Das erste Country Rock Album aus Deutschland, übrigens ebenfalls selbstproduziert, diesmal im Auftrag der CBS. Der Titelsong „Catch A Singing Bird On The Road als Devise und Metapher der Melancholie. Richtungswechsel: Hinwendung zum Ideal des Spezifischen, der Homogenität und Stimmigkeit, zum Laid-Back-Feeling und zu fast privater Intimität...

The Dark Lord

I’d like to film the tale
Of The Lord Of The Rings
And nothing is to help me
Except Gandalf’s wizardry

I liked to smoke a pipe
Of Longbottom Leaf
While Frodo’s in Torech Ungol
And I safely in my bed

Mr. Tolkien keeps riding
On his flying chair
To the distant corners of his realm
He buys a fresh strong chair
To get him everywhere
But then the journey is too short

Wish that someone put the tale
Into a comic strip
And nothing would be better
Than Harold Foster’s pen

Barad-dûr the vast fortress
Could be a feast to him
Or Strider and Minas Tirith
Frodo is a hard nut to crack

Produced by
Improved Sound Limited

All songs written by Axel Linstädt (music) and Bernd Linstädt (lyrics)
Licensed by Sony Music Entertainment (Ger) GmbH & Co.KG, P 1973, © 2001

Johnny Fickert: voc., percussion, alto sax

Axel Linstädt: voc., guitars, keyboards, mellotron

Uli Ruppert: bass;  Rolf Gröschner: drums

Guests: Frank Baum, pedal steel guitar; Ralph Nowy, tenor sax

Recorded at Trixi Studios Munich
Engineers: H. Gaertig, G. Zippelius
Digital remastering:
Jörg Scheuermann
Cover: H. C. Traue