Michael Nesmith - Magnetic South / Loose Salute
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Artist: Michael NesmithEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Music Label: Camden International
Soundtracks:
- Calico Girlfriend
- Nine Times Blue
- Little Red Rider
- The Crippled Liuon
- Joanne
- First National Rag
- Mama Nantucket
- The Keys To The Car
- Hollywood
- The One Rose(That's Left My Heart)
- Beyond The Blue Horizon
- Silver Moon
- I Fall To Pieces
- Thanx For The Ride
- Dedicated To Friends
- Conversations
- Tengo Amore
- Listen To The Band
- Bye, Bye, Bye
- Lady Of The Valley
- Hello Lady
- 1st National Dance(Instrumental)
Music reviews of Magnetic South / Loose Salute
Music Review: Mike Nesmith Begins His Post-Monkees Career
Rating: 4 Stars
With his late 1969 departure from The Monkees (other than some promotional work completed around June 1970), Michael Nesmith now embarked on a resumption of the solo career he had had before he was hired for the TV series and group that ultimately made him famous. Teamed with longtime cohort John London, drummer John Ware (who'd played for a group, The Corvettes, produced by Nesmith), and pedal steel ace Orville "Red" Rhodes, Mike and his new group, The First National Band, started out with the recording of the two albums featured on this CD.
The CD captures the underappreciated and pioneering quality that makes Nesmith's work a gem in the annals of country-rock and more than holds its own compared to modern pop-country - imagine Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, or The Dixie Chicks trying to do justice to numbers like Little Red Rider, Hello Lady, or Hollywood; they could not do it, though SheDaisy has made a miniature career out of lifting Nesmith melodies and chords for their music, on such songs as "Little Goodbyes" (Little Red Rider sideways) and "I Wish I Were The Rain" (Dance Between The Raindrops inverted).
Magnetic South opens with a three-song continuity, Calico Girlfriend-Nine Times Blue-Little Red Rider. Perhaps recognizing that many of his listeners still associated him with The Monkees, Mike double-tracked his vocals on Calico Girlfriend and Nine Times Blue to give the impression of dueting with Micky Dolenz, a trait he continued on Lady Of The Valley and to a lesser extent on Hollywood, and on songs of his subsequent LPs. The styles of all three numbers here are completely different, yet they blend into each other with a graceful effortlessness.
The tender Joanne garnered considerable airplay and helped with the LP's sales. Mike then closed out Side One of Magnetic South with the funny, openly Monkee-esque tag First National Rag, before launching into the whimsically major Mama Nantucket, who tried to kick the habit cut couldn't and she got stung.
South's best number is Hollywood. Opening with a slowish fade in of guitar, bass, and cymbal tapping, Mike then launches into a barely audible, tinny opening lyric sung as Micky Dolenz would have done it, then segues into the potent chorus as he narrates his tale of encountering Hollywood and then leaving to a place where things don't start just to end - a subtle hint about his Monkees-era feud with Don Kirshner.
Loose Salute then starts with the very strong Silver Moon and Mike's stellar cover of Pasty Cline's I Fall To Pieces. A few tracks later he forsees the Latin invasion of Glora Estefan and Ricky Martin with Tengo Amore and manages to outdo his younger successors quite nicely.
Listen To The Band was first done for The Monkees (first on the 1969 special 33.3 Revolutions Per Monkee, then on The Monkees Present LP) and here Mike recuts it in less overblown form.
The track that caused Mike and company the most trouble was the thrilling Jo Dee Messina-esque number Bye Bye Bye. Taking a whopping ten recording and mixing sessions between April and October 1970 to finish, the extravagent work proves worth it, particularly with Johnny Ware's drumming and Mike's own twin-stab organ figure (which Mike first used to excellent effect on The Monkees' Peter Tork anthem For Pete's Sake).
But perhaps the best number is Hello Lady; here Mike multitracked his vocals and gave the impression of not only dueting with Micky, but Peter and Davy as well. The song does suffer, though, from an overblown brass outro and fade partly inspired by the brass portions of "Goin' Down." Cut the overblown outro out and the song stands very well.
On the CD the closing track is the previously unreleased First National Dance, a mostly-instrumental jam credited to London, Rhodes, and Ware, in which Mike enters vocals at the very end. Intended to be the opening track of Loose Salute, it was dropped in favor of Silver Moon. It is disappointing that this rollicking instrumental jam didn't see release at the time, as it stands out with Red Rhodes' pedal steel riffing and Johny Ware's pulsating drumming. It nonetheless serves as a great way to close out his impressive "debut" as a solo artist.
Description of Magnetic South / Loose Salute
The former Monkees guitarist/ vocalist's first two solo LPs for RCA (second & third overall) together on one CD, complete with the previously unreleased bonus track '1st National Dance' (Instrumental) added. A combined total of 22 country rock tunes. Both LPs were first released in 1970. Comes packaged in a standard jewel case within a full color slipcase cover. 1999 release.Country CDs
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