{"id":973848,"date":"2019-12-03T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=918521"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:05:05","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-michael-nesmith-tomorrow-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-michael-nesmith-tomorrow-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Michael Nesmith, \u2018Tomorrow and Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Nesmith<\/a>\u2019s catalogue has always been a vast treasure trove for Monkees<\/a> fans. Take the dreamy \u201cRio,\u201d a 1977 track that was accompanied by one of the first-ever music videos.<\/a> Or 1970\u2019s \u201cJoanne,\u201d Nesmith\u2019s first and only hit with his First National Band. The song remains a cult favorite \u2014 even Brian Williams requested it during a performance at the Beacon Theater earlier this year.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Nesmith released Cosmic Partners: The McCabe\u2019s Tapes<\/em>, a live album from 1973 recorded inside a guitar shop in Santa Monica. Backed by Red Rhodes\u2019 sparse pedal steel, the intimate performance captures Nesmith at his most vulnerable. \u201cI was lost musically, lost financially, lost professionally,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cI really didn\u2019t know what to do. And my only friends were the musicians I was playing with. I was playing old-time folk songs, basically the songs I came out to L.A. with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow and Me\u201d echoes this melancholy. The acoustic ditty clocks in over 5 minutes, with Nesmith coming to terms with his despair: \u201cI\u2019ve forgotten how long I\u2019ve been sitting here\/Watching my reflection in a disappearing beer,\u201d he laments over Rhodes\u2019 melting pedal steel. \u201cThe loneliness is so thick you can slice it\/The emptiness is too much for me to fight it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song originally appeared as the opening track to 1972\u2019s And the Hits Just Keep on Comin,\u2019<\/em> the same album that contained \u201cDifferent Drum,\u201d which Linda Ronstadt turned into a hit in 1967 with the Stone Poneys. \u201cI think he liked it,\u201d Ronstadt recently told us<\/a> about the song. \u201cIt made him lots of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nesmith will tour with Micky Dolenz as the Monkees<\/a> in 2020<\/a>, and he\u2019s in no hurry to book shows with his First National Band. \u201cIf I was in the shape I was in back in McCabe\u2019s, I\u2019ll book it myself,\u201d he says. \u201cGive me a call! Send me a check! But I\u2019m very, very dialed-down now. I\u2019m no longer having any notions of superstardom. The notions I have are of eternal peace and happiness, so I\u2019m going to keep working through that. And the only place I\u2019ve ever found that is in my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michael Nesmith\u2019s catalogue has always been a vast treasure trove for Monkees fans. Take the dreamy \u201cRio,\u201d a 1977 track that was accompanied by one of the first-ever music videos. Or 1970\u2019s \u201cJoanne,\u201d Nesmith\u2019s first and only hit with his First National Band. The song remains a cult favorite \u2014 even Brian Williams requested it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:08:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}