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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.

        Tracks
Samples
Lyrics
1) 
Humphrey Bogart
2) 
The Dark Lord
3) 
Barricade
4) 
A Poet´s Conversation
5) 
Catch A Singing Bird On The Road
6) 
Sunday Morning After Church
7) 
Breed
8) 
Mountain Moonshine
9) 
Rio Bravo 59
10) 
Hot Biscuit Slim
11) 
The Dark Lord - Recited By H.C. Artmann (Bonus Track)

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

 

© 2004 IMPROVED SOUND LIMITED