Artist: Clover
Album: Clover / Fourty Niner
Country: US
Genre: Country Rock, Blues Rock
Publisher: Real Gone Music [RGM-0074]
Year: 2012
Format: FLAC | lossless (tracks+.m3u+.cue+covers)

Tracklist:

1970: Clover
1. Shotgun
2. Southbound Train
3. Going To The Country
4. Monopoly
5. Stealin'
6. Wade In The Water
7. No Vacancy
8. Lizard Rock And Roll Band
9. Come
10.Could You Call It Love

1971: Fourty Niner
11.Harvest
12.Keep On Tryin'
13.Old Man Blues
14.Fourty-Niner
15.Sound Of Thunder
16.Chicken Butt
17.Mr. Moon
18.Love Is Gone
19.Mitch's Tune
20.Sunny Mexico
21.If I Had My Way

https://youtu.be/aHIDcQyLRes
https://youtu.be/qOFgHN79AUc

Clover is one of the most famous bands you have never heard of. They were the backing band on Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True and a later incarnation of the group morphed into Huey Lewis & the News. Among the founding members, John McFee became a Doobie Brother, Alex Call wrote hits for Lewis and many other artists (including Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny") and bassist John Ciambotti played on sessions for everybody from John Prine to Lucinda Williams. Given that pedigree, it's rather astonishing that their first two records, cut for Fantasy in 1970 and 1971, respectively, have NEVER seen a CD reissue. It's no accident they were on Fantasy, either; not only did Clover hail from the Bay Area (Mill Valley), but they had a rootsy, country-rock sound not unlike their more famous label-mate, Creedence Clearwater Revival. Alex Call himself supplies the liner notes to this overdue reissue, with added photos