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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)

Mountain Moonshine

It’s hard to make a living
Here in Mountain Moonshine Store
If not for them drunken sailors
Down in Baltimore

Revenuer’s a-coming
He’s hunting the moonshine down
Still-house is a-burning to the ground

There is spring and summer
There’ll be still another crop
There is corn and water
There will never be no stop

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