CATCH A SINGING BIRD ON THE ROAD

The Private Album [Liner Notes]

"While my pedal steel gently weeps...": probably the first country rock album from Germany, also self-produced, this time for CBS. The title song "Catch A Singing Bird On The Road" is both a motto and a metaphor for melancholy. A change of direction aspiring towards the specific, the homogenous, the right and proper, with a laid back feeling and an almost idiosyncratic intimacy.

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Dude crooned My Rifle, My Pony And Me
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They had a smooth show with Rick joining in
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I had a real good time

Two.44’s greasy black hair
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You know them loners they get what they want
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I had a real good time

Stick to them rules man stick to them rules
Or Sheriff Chance gets you to run
Stick to them rules Rick stick to them rules
Or Garden Parties are no fun

Don’t you shoot no m an in the back
Don’t you shoot no woman at all
Don’t you swallow no booze before church
Don’t you carry no gun in your bed

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