And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'
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And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'
- Artist: Michael Nesmith
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- Release Date: 1972
- Total Time: 32:26
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
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In 1972, Michael Nesmith had released four albums for RCA Records that didn't sell especially well, and he had parted ways with his band, with only pedal steel guitarist Red Rhodes interested in working on Nesmith's next project. RCA gave Nesmith a limited window of time to make his next album for them, so it was necessity rather than design that led Nesmith to cut And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' with just himself on acoustic guitar and Rhodes on pedal steel. But the results were truly inspired; Nesmith and Rhodes use the album's spare instrumentation to their advantage, with the performances both empathetic and intimate, and Rhodes' masterful steel gives these songs a graceful resonance few full bands could muster. And while the ten songs find Nesmith in one of his more introspective phases, here he manages to keep one foot planted firmly in the real world while the other traipses the cosmos (even the trippiest song here, "The Candidate," manages a certain tongue-in-cheek wit that keeps it on terra firma, and "Keep On" offers neo-hippie philosophy rooted in good ol' Texas horse sense). He also offers up a superb folk-styled remake of "Different Drum" that has a bluesy lope missing from Linda Ronstadt's better-known version. And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' is modest in approach but very satisfying in execution, practically defining the phrase "happy accident." ~ Mark Deming, Rovi| And the Hell With It (2003 Album by Sick) | |
| And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'/Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash (2000 Album by Michael Nesmith) |
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And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'
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| Studio album by Michael Nesmith | ||||
| Released | August 1972 | |||
| Recorded | March 1972 | |||
| Genre | Country rock | |||
| Length | 30:26 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Michael Nesmith | |||
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And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' is Michael Nesmith's fifth solo album during his post-Monkees career and the last recording under RCA Records. Recorded and released in 1972, all ten tracks had been composed by Nesmith prior to and during his time as a member of The Monkees.
The album features Nesmith on vocals and acoustic guitar and long-time accompanist Red Rhodes on pedal steel guitar. Nesmith has stated that the title of the album is a reaction to the record label repeatedly asking him to write more hit songs and features Nesmith's own version of his tune "Different Drum", a hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys in 1967.[2]
The version of "Different Drum" found here features four verses as opposed to the three in Linda Ronstadt's version; the verses in the Ronstadt version are the song's first, the second, the bridge, and then the fourth. "Different Drum" made an unofficial debut on The Monkees episode Too Many Girls when Mike, posing as a mic-frightened folk singer, butchers its lyrics while playing the guitar.
Mike and Red recorded an instrumental, "Cantata & Fugue In C&W," for the album but it was left off.
Several songs (notably "Keep On") reflect a theme common to Nesmith's country-flavored tracks — the theme of never letting fear get the best of you. The liner notes to the album are signed "Papa Nes".
The album was re-released on the Pacific Arts label and also reissued with Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash by BMG International in 2000.[3]
Track listing
All songs by Michael Nesmith.
- "Tomorrow & Me" – 3:45
- "The Upside of Good-Bye" – 2:50
- "Lady Love" – 2:50
- "Listening" – 2:23
- "Two Different Roads" – 2:39
- "The Candidate" – 2:35
- "Different Drum" – 2:58
- "Harmony Constant" – 3:48
- "Keep On" – 3:30
- "Roll With the Flow" – 5:08
Personnel
- Michael Nesmith – vocals, guitar
- O.J. "Red" Rhodes – pedal steel guitar
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