Clover: Forty Niner (Liberty)
Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 1 May 1971
IF CLOVER'S first album on Liberty was good, then this follow up is fantastic. The material is a rich variety of country music which brings out the best elements of everything the current country vogue has thrown up.
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