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Waterloo Lily

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Waterloo Lily
Studio album by
Released19 May 1972
RecordedNovember 1971
StudioTollington Park Studios, London, England
GenreCanterbury scene, progressive rock, jazz fusion
Length40:06
LabelDeram
ProducerDavid Hitchcock
Caravan chronology
In the Land of Grey and Pink
(1971)
Waterloo Lily
(1972)
For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

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

Background

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The album cover is detail from "The Tavern Scene" from A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth. The track "The Love in Your Eye" has been featured as a Caravan live track for many years.

Recording

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Waterloo Lily is the only album by Caravan with Steve Miller (brother of Phil Miller) as the keyboard player. Miller brought a more jazz-focused sound to the album than had been heard on the previous album[1] through his stylings on the Wurlitzer piano rather than the Hammond organ favored by previous keyboardist Dave Sinclair. 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 Hatfield and the North.

Track listing

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All compositions by Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair except "It's Coming Soon" and "Songs and Signs" by Miller.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Waterloo Lily"6:47
2."Nothing at All"
"It's Coming Soon"
"Nothing at All (Reprise)"
10:25
3."Songs and Signs"3:39
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Aristocracy"3:03
2."The Love in Your Eye"
"To Catch Me a Brother"
"Subsultus"
"Debouchement"
"Tilbury Kecks"
12:31
3."The World Is Yours"3:40

The following bonus tracks were included on the 2001 remastered edition of the CD.

No.TitleLength
1."Pye's June Thing"2:58
2."Ferdinand"2:57
3."Looking Left, Looking Right"5:37
4."Pye's Loop"1:21

Personnel

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Caravan
Additional personnel

References

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  1. ^ a b "AllMusic ((( Waterloo Lily > Overview )))". www.AllMusic.com. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
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