Clear Water was the second album by Baby You Know the German Indie country band from Regensburg, this album was produced by Robert Forster in 1992, he liked the band so much he married the bands Violinist Karin Baummler who was joined in Baby You Know by these days prominent Green politician Erhard Grundl alongside Hari Beugler, Doc Schott and Robert Poschl.
The album opens with the jangling guitars of Lily Of The Valley the kind of compliment that if paid to my other half would get me a mouthful of abuse, but I get why he might want to claim his girl really is his Lily Of The Valley this has a sweet indie rock feel.
El Paso is fiddle led western rock in a Silo's style with carefully placed percussion and shakers, asking for Mercy for everything that happened that day in ole El Paso.
House On The Hill is not the place where they give you pills, but a place for pleasure with views of a green valley rather than views of Streatham and Norwood that Kevin Coyne had. This jangly tale of action unfolding on the streets below the House On The Hill. They hope that they will have far more pleasure in that house than pain.
Blind Man's Bluff is sing along Black Forest country pop seduction, they hope to watch her undress while in the wrong part of town, a place so bad they have a recorder soloist leading them out of the neighbourhood.
The Last Of the Buffaloes is an almost spoken word story folk song, burnished with the pain of having to leave your love behind, trying to drown the sorrows as the violin soothes your pain as you watch The Last Of The Buffaloes depart.
Gone, Gone, Gone that relationship is gone in one shove too many, this has a Silos meets the more plangent end of the Pogues feel to the jangling guitars and careful drumming, that fiddle just lifts everything.
Lost has heavily strummed acoustics driving on this tale of love and loss, will they ever find there way back to safety, they seek salvation in rock & roll.
They take us out on to the back porch for a bluegrass cover of Chet Atkins Midnight Train, I was almost waiting for the cicadas to start chirping.
I Love You, Still has Karin singing vocals on a song that has that Opal sound almost perfect, the shaken tambourines and louche guitar lines work wonderfully, such a gloriously evocative song.
Outlaw is full of memories of the old days; this is downhearted violin led country rock for the good old Outlaw times.
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