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.

Catch A Singing Bird On The Road

Mom died young I’ve never sung but for Laureen
Jobs been mean gin been clean Heaven knows
And the women I’ve known been fast
And the women I’ve known been fast oh Lord
Catch a singing bird on the road

I’m still strong sing this song just for Laureen
Gonna work hard gonna work hard Heaven knows
A cotton gin-fitter I’ll be
A cotton gin-fitter I’ll be oh Lord
Catch a singing bird on the road

Man had said he’d turned red my sweet Laureen
Need no fitter need a picker oh Lord
And the women I’ve known been fast
And the women I’ve known been fast oh Lord
Catch a singing bird on the road

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