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.

A Poet´s Conversation

O. Wilde:
I admit, dear Mr. Cooper, they’re no savages at all
These tales are simple true and honest
Though poetic to the core
Though poetic to the core of a song

J. F. Cooper:
Nothing lives long, Mr. Wilde, only the mountains and the earth
Take this little Cheyenne tune
Did we ever write such a line
Did we ever write such a perfect little line

O. Wilde:
Let us talk about this later on
I should like a go-between
Catskill Mountain House is famous
Famous for its haute cuisine

Many thanks to P. T. Barnum he’s a connoisseur by birth
Please imagine Mr. Cooper
Jenny Lind sings here tonight
Jenny Lind sings here for an American Puritan

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