Michael Nesmith - Tropical Campfires
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Artist: Michael NesmithEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-10-27
Music Label: Statrax Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Yellow Butterfly
- Laugh Kills Lonesome
- Moon Over the Rio Grande
- One...
- Juliana
- Brazil - Michael Nesmith, Barroso, Ary
- In the Still of the Night - Michael Nesmith, Porter, cole
- Rising in Love
- Begin the Beguine - Michael Nesmith, Porter, Cole
- I Am Not That
- ...for the Island
- Twilight on the Trail
Free Music Notes for Tropical Campfires
Free Music Review: The best since Infinite Rider...though distinctly different.
Hit: 5 Stars
Michael Nesmith is the most inventive genius of 4 Monkees. Yes, I'm always going to be a "Davy girl", but I appreciate the supreme genius that is Michael. First off, "Tropical Campfires" is NOT country. It is a marriage of calypso and Western cowboy music, much like a Jimmy Buffett album.
All you need to do is look at that title, and that's the entire sound of the album. The big plus to this album is that Michael remade "Brazil", "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter, not the '50s version), and "Begin the Beguine" (also Cole Porter); they are the best versions I've ever heard. Another favorite on here is "Yellow Butterfly", which Michael described as transcendental (I THINK that was the word, though I may be missing the exact word.)--a belief that somewhere in the world a certain thing is happening that causes something to happen where we are, in this case it is raining, so "somewhere sails a yellow butterfly." Everytime I see a yellow butterfly, I smile and think it is raining somewhere.
"Juliana", my favorite all-time love song, other than Michael's "Propinquity" from the Complete albums, is also on here. Men have no patience for the slow-going, peacefully tender exclamation of intense love (such as my husband, who likes the phrases I quote him from it, but has yet been able to listen to the whole thing.), but women listening everywhere melt, wishing that there was a man who wrote them a song with the words: "How your name brings me awake like the first light of dawn....You're my sweet heart's desire, you're the face of a dream I have drawn." This song is so beautifully rendered that I even plan to name our daughter, should we ever have one, Julianna. As a writer myself, I know that love has never been expressed this way ("the face of a dream I have drawn"...wow!) which makes it all the more brilliant that Papa Nez continually finds ways to freshen up old ideas and make them his own.
Do I urge you to buy this? YES! Give Nez a chance. And now that I've reviewed this, I'm going off to listen to "Begin the Beguine".
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2008 reissue of this album from the former Monkee and groundbreaking music/video pioneer. Tropical Campfires is an entirely acoustic album with some of this country's best session players (including John Jorgensen of The Desert Rose Band, percussionist Luis Conte, and pedal steel player Red Rhodes). Nez sings some original tunes as well as covers of 'In the Still of the Night', 'Brazil', and 'Begin the Beguine'. After this recording many of the songs were performed with the same band for Live at the Britt, a festival which was videotaped in Oregon. Nezheads usually list this album in their Top Three. 11 tracks. Edsel. UK.Country Music CDs
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