Live at the Britt Festival is a live album by Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name...

, released in 1999. It was recorded live at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, OR, in 1991. To prepare for the concert, Nesmith conducted a limited U.S. tour which featured a similar set list as the Britt Festival.

The performance was Nesmith's last with longtime collaborator and pedal steel guitarist Red Rhodes

Red Rhodes

Rhodes played pedal steel on many country rock, pop and rock albums with The Monkees, James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, The Byrds, The Carpenters and many other groups. He is most often remembered for his work with former Monkee Michael Nesmith on Nesmith's first solo albums in the early 1970s...

, who died shortly after the concert.

The album features a rare occasion of Nesmith (as a solo artist) singing a Monkees song, Papa Gene's Blues (originally from the album The Monkees

The Monkees (album)

The Monkees is the first album by the band The Monkees. It was released in October 1966 by Colgems Records in the United States and RCA Records in the rest of the world. It was the first of four consecutive U.S. number one albums for the group, taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks....

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Track listing

All songs written by Michael Nesmith except as otherwise noted.

1. "Two Different Roads" – 3:49
2. "Papa Gene's Blues" – 4:50
3. "Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care)" – 5:53
4. "Some of Shelly's Blues" – 3:17
5. "Joanne
   Joanne (song)
   Joanne was the only Top 40 single for Michael Nesmith as a solo artist. Nesmith released the single in 1970 from the album Magnetic South, the first album released by Nesmith and The First National Band after he left the Monkees. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Top...
   
   " – 6:52
6. "Tomorrow and Me" – 4:24
7. "The Upside of Goodbye" – 3:32
8. "Harmony Constant" – 4:22
9. "Silver Moon
   Silver Moon
   Silver Moon was the third single Michael Nesmith recorded as a solo artist and the second to reach the Billboard Hot 100. Silver Moon was released in 1970 from Nesmith's second solo album, Loose Salute. Nesmith recorded the song with The First National Band and the song reached 42 on the Top 100...
   
   " – 5:05
10. "5 Second Concerts" (Hobbs, Nesmith) – 1:53
11. "Yellow Butterfly" – 5:52
12. "Moon over the Rio Grande" – 5:43
13. "Juliana" – 6:07
14. "Laugh Kills Lonesome" – 4:00
15. "I Am Not That" – 2:31
16. "Rising in Love" – 4:34
17. "Rio" – 5:50
18. "Different Drum" – 2:40
19. "I Am Not That (Reprise)" – 2:43

Personnel

• Michael Nesmith – vocals, guitar, liner notes
• Red Rhodes
  Red Rhodes
  Rhodes played pedal steel on many country rock, pop and rock albums with The Monkees, James Taylor, Seals and Crofts, The Byrds, The Carpenters and many other groups. He is most often remembered for his work with former Monkee Michael Nesmith on Nesmith's first solo albums in the early 1970s...
  
   – pedal steel guitar
• Joe Chemay – bass
• Luis Conte
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
  – percussion
• John Hobbs – keyboards
• Jakob Jorgensen – guitar

Production notes

• Mike McDonald – mixing
• Lee Collett – audio supervisor