Michael Nesmith With Red Rhodes - Cosmic Partners - The McCabe's Tapes
A1 Welcome To McCabe's
A2 Tomorrow And Me
A3 The Upside Of Goodbye
A4 The Sock Cymbal Scared Me
A5 Grand Ennui
A6 Some Of Shelly's Blues
A7 Cosmic Partners
A8 Rose City Chimes
B1 A Dog Wrote It
B2 Poinciana
B3 The Crippled Lion
B4 Alice Nesmith
B5 The One Rose
B6 Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)
B7 Joanne
B8 Silver Moon
Producer – Ed Heffelfinger
"Electric Blue" vinyl variant of unknown quantity.
Released 6th March 2020 in the UK and 13th March 2020 in the US.
From Videoranch:
Recorded at McCabe's in Santa Monica, CA, on August 18th, 1973, Cosmic Partners - The McCabe's Tapes is a rare and previously unreleased concert recording featuring Michael Nesmith and a small coterie of fellow musicians, including long time recording partner and pedal steel player Red Rhodes.
This recording is from a mini concert tour that was in support of what was to be Nesmith's final record on the RCA label, Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash. The dates would reunite him with the remnant players from Nesmith's Countryside label, under Elektra. Consisting of a rhythm section featuring Danny Lane on drums and Colin Cameron on bass, and the legendary O.J. "Red" Rhodes on pedal steel, this would be the last performance of its kind and the beginning of an almost Homeric journey for Nesmith.
On the heels of an inordinately successful Monkees TV show, the hangover from overnight celebrity, and the disappointments that so often follow such ascents, this forgotten and almost lost board mix in all its unvarnished glory (remastered here by Christian Nesmith, Michael's oldest son) stands as a ready witness to the spirit of a man full of heartache, a performer bruised by the claws of the star-maker machine, and an artist whose songs have become touchstones for our lives. What you hear is exactly as it happened with no overdubs or audio mumbo jumbo. The perfection you hear is totally for real. |
