Announcement: New Michael Nesmith 7a Records Release

Announcement from 7a Records:

Mondays suck right?

WRONG!

Here’s a secret little project that ain’t so secret no more. A brand new Nesmith album….

7a Records are delighted to announce the release of their third Michael Nesmith album. 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 Nesmith and a small coterie of fellow musicians, including long time recording partner and pedal steel player Red Rhodes. Released as a lavishly packaged CD set with a 24 page booklet with previously unseen pictures and liner notes by Michael Nesmith. 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. 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.

US Customers:
CD

https://www.deepdiscount.com/cosmic-partners-…/5060209950259

Picture Disc Vinyl:

https://www.deepdiscount.com/cosmic-partners-…/5060209950266

UK customers
CD

https://www.keymailrecords.com/cosmic-partners-the-mccabes-…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Y4KVKSG…

Picture Disc Vinyl:

https://www.keymailrecords.com/cosmic-partners-the-mccabes-…

1. Welcome To McCabe’s
2. Tomorrow And Me
3. The Upside Of Goodbye
4. The Sock Cymbal Scared Me
5. Grand Ennui
6. Some Of Shelly’s Blues
7. Cosmic Partners
8. Rose City Chimes
9. A Dog Wrote It
10. Poinciana  
11. The Crippled Lion
12. Alice Nesmith
13. The One Rose
14. Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun To Care)
15. The Great Escape*
16. Joanne
17. Silver Moon

Recorded at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, August 18th, 1973

Personnel:

Michael Nesmith – Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
O.J. ‘Red’ Rhodes – Pedal Steel Guitar
Colin Cameron – Bass
Danny Lane – Drums

Executive Producers: Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund

Produced by Ed Heffelfinger
Co-Produced and Mastered by Christian Nesmith
Recorded by: Ron Marks

All songs written by Michael Nesmith and published by Screen Gems-EMI Music Ltd, except for: 
‘Rose City Chimes’ by John Robert Garrett (Carlin Music Corp.)
‘Poinciana’ by Nat Simon & Buddy Bernier (Francis Day & Hunter Ltd)
‘The One Rose’ by Del Lyon and Lani McIntire (Shapiro Bernstein & Co Ltd) 

Photography: Norman Seeff and Bob Warford
Artwork by Scott Balcony – www.balconyshirts.co.uk,
with thanks to Tim Johnson at Silver Parrot 

Special Thanks to: Wayne Griffith, Kora ‘Koko’ Peterson, Lisa Jenio, Nichole Jaymes, Circe Link, Melodie Akers, Gary Strobl, Sophia Heffelfinger, Robin Campbell,
Joseph Jones, Jason Chesney, Kinon, Alexander, Katherine and the Zilch Podcast Team

McCabe’s Master of Ceremonies: Bobby Kimmel
Mr. Rhodes’ Performance Courtesy of Jif Peanut Butter 

*does NOT feature on the vinyl