[2022-06-03] Michael Nesmith And The Second National Band "Tantamount To Treason, Volume One (50th Anniv. Ed.)" (7a UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:58 pm

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X49ZTQP/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X49ZTQP/?tag=imwan-21

Description
• 50th Anniversary Edition
• Includes five bonus tracks
• Extensive liner notes
• Brand new cover painting by Wilson McLean
• 32 page CD booklet with lyrics to all of the songs

7A Records announces the 50th Anniversary expanded reissue release of Michael Nesmith and the Second National Band’s 1972 album ‘Tantamount To Treason, Volume One’. 7A Records have remastered the album and included five bonus tracks. The album is released on CD with a 32 page colour booklet featuring extensive liner notes, lyrics to all of the songs and it features a brand new cover painting by Wilson McLean, who also painted the original 1972 album cover.

By late 1971, Michael Nesmith found himself confronted with dissenting opinions of his First National Band releases on RCA Records. Though critics generally lauded the music, radio audiences and the record buying public became less interested in the material with each subsequent release. Contemplating his next move under his RCA contract, Nesmith made some significant changes to his approach in recording new material, which would ultimately yield ‘Tantamount To Treason, Volume One’. Gone would be a supporting “band” in the sense of a collective partnership of musicians. Rather, an eclectic group of session musicians would be gathered to lay down what were arguably Nesmith’s most free-form, jazz-influenced and psychedelic country tracks of his career.

Tracklist
1. Mama Rocker
2. Lazy Lady
3. You Are My One
4. In The Afternoon
5. Highway 99 With Melange
6. Wax Minute
7. Bonaparte's Retreat
8. Talking To The Wall
9. She Thinks I Still Care
Bonus Tracks:
10. Six Days On The Road
11. Circle Sky
12. Listen To The Band (Alt. Ver.)
13. Tan My Hide (Instrumental)
14. You Are My One (Instrumental)

Packshots (click for full size):

Linda · **Posted:** Mon May 23, 2022 3:40 am

Packshots have been added to the first post.

[2022-06-03] Michael Nesmith And The Second National Band "Tantamount To Treason, Volume One (50th Anniv. Ed.)" (7a UK)

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