"they're killin' chicken in the backyard/me,
I'm just killing time..." the opening lines, praise of adolescent
idleness, set the stage for the only "no-depression" record
to ever come out of Germany. PRINZ Magazine called it "a charming,
sensitive and powerful debut album from countryside based band that features
Robert Forster (Go-Betweens) on guitar"
"A few weeks after the release of our first record
we played the Metropol during Berlin Independent Days. I had left the
stage and was backstage while the rest of Baby You Know were backing Robert
Forster for two or three songs. The door to the dressing room opened and
in comes this tall and fragile man, sayin´ "Hi, I`m Townes
Van Zandt. A friend played me your album and I really like it a lot. Do
you know that I have a song of the same title?"
I was flatened. It was such a big surprise, almost a shock.
I mean, Townes to me was one of the best. Still is. A musical hero, not
somebody to come around and just say "Hi". Well, we talked a
little bit, about music obviously, and he played "Dead Flowers"
and "To live is to fly" right there, backstage at the Metropol,
just for me. I almost forgot I had to go back on again." (Erhard
Grundl, 1999)
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