''Waterloo Lily'' is the fourth album by Caravan, released in 1972 on the Deram label.

Background

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. The track "The Love in Your Eye" has been featured as a Caravan live track for many years.

Recording

''Waterloo Lily'' is the only album by Caravan with Steve Miller (brother of

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) as the keyboard player. Miller brought a jazz-focused sound to the album than had been heard on the previous album through his stylings on the Wurlitzer piano rather than the Hammond organ favored by previous keyboardist

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. Guests Phil Miller and Lol Coxhill from Steve Miller's previous band Delivery play on "Nothing at all", an instrumental modeled after Miles Davis's "Right Off". Soon after Waterloo Lily, Richard Sinclair and Steve Miller left Caravan to play with Phil Miller and Coxhill in a re-formed Delivery, which led to the formation the band

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Track listing

All compositions by Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair except "It's Coming Soon" and "Songs and Signs" by Miller. ;Side one ;Side two ''The following bonus tracks were included on the 2001 remastered edition of the CD''.

Personnel

;Caravan *

Pye Hastings Julian Frederick Gordon 'Pye' Hastings (born 21 January 1947 in Tomnavoulin, Banffshire, Scotland) is a British musician. Born in Scotland and raised in Canterbury, Kent, he is the guitarist and vocalist of the Canterbury scene band Caravan and b ...

– guitars & vocals * Steve Miller –

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, grand piano, Hammond organ, electric harpsichord *

Richard Sinclair Richard Stephen Sinclair (born 6 June 1948) is an English progressive rock bassist, guitarist, and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene. Biography Born in Canterbury, England, both his father (Dick Sinclair) ...

– bass & vocals *

Richard Coughlan Richard Coughlan (2 September 1947 – 1 December 2013) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Caravan. He was one of the founding members of Caravan in 1968 and remai ...

– drums ;Additional personnel *

Lol Coxhill George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano and sopranino saxophone. Biography Coxhill was born to George Compton Coxhill ...

– soprano saxophone (1, 2) *

– 2nd lead guitar (2) *

Jimmy Hastings James Brian Gordon Hastings (born 12 May 1938) is a British musician associated with the Canterbury scene who plays saxophones, flute and clarinet. Hastings was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He has played with his brother Pye Hastings in Caravan, ...

– flute (5) * Mike Cotton – trumpet (5) * Barry Robinson – oboe (5)

References

External links

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Caravan - ''Waterloo Lily'' (1972) album review by Lindsay Planer, credits, releases and ''Billboard'' charts
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