Michael Nesmith - And The Hits Just Keep On Comin' / Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash (MOCCD14227) CD

These two albums, his fifth and sixth, by the genius that is Michael Nesmith show why he remains a pioneer in the country rock genre. Michael Nesmith was the guitarist of the legendary Monkees and as a solo artist he grew and became a brilliant songwriter and musician. This stripped-down album was a musical dialogue between Nesmith (on vocals and 12-string acoustic guitar) and Red Rhodes (on his pedal steel), journeying from his pre-Monkees songbook through the present day. On ‘Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash’ Michael brought in a seven-piece country band. It includes a new version of the Monkees-era track “Some Of Shelly’s Blues,” and Cindy Walker‘s “Born To Love You.” Rolling Stone magazine called his material “the best music you’ve never heard.”

1. Tomorrow & Me
2. The Upside Of Good-Bye
3. Lady Love
4. Listening
5. Two Different Roads
6. The Candidate
7. Different Drum
8. Harmony Constant
9. Keep On
10. Roll With The Flow
11. Continuing
12. Some of Shelly’s Blues
13. Release
14. Winonah
15. Born to Love You
16 .Back Porch and a Fruit Jar Full of Iced Tea/ The F.F.V. / Uncle Pen
17. Prairie Lullaby