Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?

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Michael Nesmith – Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash

7A Records are proud to announce the 50th Anniversary Edition of Michael Nesmith’s “Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash” album. Released on CD & Vinyl on April 7, the album includes a bonus track, extensive liner notes and session details by Andrew Sandoval, as well as lyrics to all of the songs.

The Album

Nesmith’s time with the Monkees was well and truly in the rear-view mirror and he needed a new place to live and work. He caught the ear of Jac Holzman, head of Elektra Records, and a path forward miraculously appeared. Realising that most of the record companies at the time didn’t understand Country Rock, Nesmith convinced Holzman to start a new label, Countryside. Nesmith would run the label, put together a ‘house band’ and produce albums by various up and coming country artists. Unfortunately, most of the new label’s releases didn’t make much of an impression and Nesmith soon started to contemplate his own music again. Aided by the power of his Countryside house band, he quickly crafted Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash, a full and final RCA album. Despite its commercial sheen, Ranch Stash wasn’t a success sales-wise and it became the closing remark to a heavy chapter in Nesmith’s life, a final “adios” to Monkee Mike, to the cosmic cowboy, and to his family, as he moved further on up the trail.

Included on our 50th Anniversary Edition is the 1973 alternate version of “Marie’s Theme”. The Vinyl version is in a gatefold sleeve and printed on 180g grey vinyl and includes extensive liner notes and session info by Andrew Sandoval.

50th Anniversary Edition
• Includes Bonus Track
• Extensive Liner Notes
• Lyrics To All Songs

I finally listened to New Riders' xpost Lyceum '72 all the way through last night---72 minutes, I think---after a couple of interrupted but already mostly pleasurable attempts, and Marmaduke nowhere on here sounds like xpost defective Garcia clone, although he can sound Garcia-like, not quite pulling off some of the extended ballads of pathos like JG could, and there are a few too many of these in this set---but then he pushes against the bounds of the song, the bounds of discretion, as a cowtown survivor had better not do, in "Dirty Business," which goes on and builds for eight minutes, led by him and Buddy Cage, whose steel guitar is always a treat---whole band is ready for all the uptempo stuff too, "I Don't Need No Doctor," "Willie and the Hand Jive," "Hello Mary Lou"---though I wish that lead guitarist David Nelson had sung a few leads, considering his crisp vocals in the post-Marmaduke etc, line-up I heard*.

Anyroad, today Omnivore announced a flash sale on all three of their live NR sets:

Tuesday, June 20 through Thursday, June 22, Field Trip (CD / 2-LP), Thanksgiving In New York (2-CD / 3-LP), and Lyceum ’72 (CD) will be available for 50% off.
...Titles are limited to stock on hand, so there are no rain checks, but you can order as many copies as fit in your cart. Speaking of carts, please don’t add any preorders of new titles in there, as that will delay your order and you’ll miss out on the sale pricing.

So, Ride on and add some classic New Riders Of The Purple Sage to your collection.

Please note, the prices you'll see in the webstore will have the discount already applied to them.

*My preview when they played Columbus oh in '09:

New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jerry Garcia and singer/picker David Nelson’s pre-Dead country adventures morphed into New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Nelson, with Garcia’s steel guitar successor, Buddy Cage (survivor of Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks) reformed New Riders in 2005, recruiting Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano, plus two from self-stamped “swamp groove“ unit Stir Fry, bassist Ronnie Penque and drummer Johnny Markowski. NRPS roll deft jams and tight tunes, many recently written with Garcia collaborator Robert Hunter, who keeps Riders swirling around a “Barracuda Moon,” and curtly invokes the difference between a bad loan/And a debt.” Nelson’s subtly Dylanesque delivery underscores such lines with dry wit. Expect their aromatic hit, “Panama Red.”
07/27 @ Woodlands Tavern, 1200 W Third Ave. ,8 p.m

Here's a playlist I made that's a replica of a 2006 Ace / Big Beat CD comp:

Country & West Coast: The Birth of Country Rock

some of the tracks weren't available, so i had to improvise, but it's 95% the same.

Thanks!! Outlaws and Armadillos is another that could do with playlist tweak, not nec. re availability issues, but as xgau said, some of it is right artists, wrong tracks.

i haven't listened to this one in a long time. there is good stuff on it. sounds way better on vinyl. i mean, it would sound better than rando youtube upload. but if you see a cheap copy maybe pick it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-W142qnsk