Track Listing

1. Calico Girlfriend
2. Nine Times Blue
3. Little Red Rider
4. Crippled Lion
5. Joanne
6. First National Rag
7. Mama Nantucket
8. Keys To The Car
9. Hollywood
10. One Rose That's Left In My Heart
11. Beyond The Blue Horizon
12. Silver Moon
13. I Fall To Pieces
14. Thanx For The Ride
15. Dedicated Friend
16. Conversations
17. Tengo Amore
18. Listen To The Band
19. Bye Bye Bye
20. Lady Of The Valley
21. Hello Lady
22. 1st National Dance

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42393 in Music
• Released on: 1999-04-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

not sure how to review Magnetic South/Loose Salute
I have never heard the of the C/D or the artise, I would like hear some of the music so I truely can give you a good review, when did Amazon stop letting us hear a clip of each song first, so we can give you an honest answer, thank you very much Dad

Don't let that crazy jacket put you off, this is a must-have CD!!
For most people, being instantly identified with one of the most popular and enduring US Television Series and pop bands of the 1960s, inventing MTV and being the heir to the White-Out fortune would be more than enough success for one lifetime and would let us die happy people.

For Michael Nesmith, however, this almost seems a bit of a tragedy. While he is widely identified as The One With The Hat out of The Monkees, as hard as he worked in getting the idea for MTV off the ground and as hard as he worked with his mother to get White-Out patented... his solo material is largely and rather cruelly overlooked in his legend.

This CD is a collection of his first two post-Monkees albums, recorded with The First National Band. Keen-eared listeners will note that the majority of tracks on Magnetic South are re-vamped and re-recorded, extremely obscure Monkees-era tracks (Calico Girlfriend, Nine Times Blue, Little Red Rider, The Crippled Lion) - and the style is quite heavily entrenched in a genre that he helped to create more than anyone has ever given him credit for, Country Rock.

By the time Loose Salute comes along, he has changed style almost completely into a genre all of his own - I like to call it "Michael Nesmith". Songs like Hello Lady, Dedicated Friend and the ungodly sexy Tengo Amore all sound as though they could have worked on three separate albums but somehow they all seem to fit in quite nicely together on this one. His cover of I Fall To Pieces is emotive and tender - while the Monkees-era tracks Conversations (formerly titled "Carlisle Wheeling Effervescent Popsicle" - no, seriously!!) and Listen To The Band may as well have been completely new tracks as they are such a departure from their original recordings.

If you don't have any Michael Nesmith solo material in your collection, it's really time to start. No matter what your feelings towards country, rock, blues or bluesy country rock, or rockin' country blues, or country bluesey rock... you will absolutely adore this CD and will likely need another copy for when you've worn your original copy out!!! I promise!

Neglected masterpieces
These two albums, handsomely collected together on this single CD are a complete delight. Mike Nesmith's songwriting is witty, playful, elegaic and wonderful. Some of the songs here are instant classics: Mama Nuntucket is a fabulous yodelling honkytonk gem, Dedicated Friend is a weirdly superb piece of classic country rock, while Hollywood, The Keys to the Car, Beyond the Blue Horizon, need I go on, are all fabulous. The deMonkeefied Listen to the Band seriously rocks. Neglected in comparison with his contemporary, Gram Parsons, Nesmith's stuff is truly vital and if you haven't heard it yet there's a Nesmith-shaped hole in your life; this is the place to start plugging that hole.