- Category: Music » Rock & Pop » Country Rock
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- Release Date: February 7, 1996
- Label: Beat Goes On (BGO)
- UPC: 5017261202840
- WAPI (Tower ID): 106137356
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #111048 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #31533 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
- #179 in Country Rock (See Top 100 Country Rock Bestsellers)
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More Albums by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Artist...Run a Quick Search on "Ricochet" by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Ricochet"Browse more products related to "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band"Product noteIncludes liner notes by John Tobler. Title NoteIncludes liner notes by John Tobler. Album DescriptionThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's second album is a masterpiece. From the opening bars of Jackson Browne's "Shadow Dream Song," the high spirits overflow the grooves (or ones and zeros, on the CD) of the record. The singing and playing are more confident, and some of the songs -- including the bluesy "Ooh Po Pe Do Girl" and the hook-laden "I'll Search The Sky" by Jeff Hanna, and Copeland and Noonan's (the "Buy for Me the Rain" team) "Tide of Love" -- are as solid as anything coming out of California. Even the kazoo-dominated "Coney Island Washboard" and "Happy Fat Annie" and the nostalgic '20s-styled Jackson Browne-written "It's Raining Here in Long Beach" fit well into the mix, reflecting the full range of the band's influences. As to why this record never caught on, it could be the timing -- released late in 1967, in the wake of Sergeant Pepper (which had its own musichall influences, albeit of the English variety, and covered with lots of psychedelic overdubbing) and the Summer of Love, it just wasn't what college kids starting their search for the Lost Chord were looking for. Maybe a kazoo or two less would've helped, and a real drug song or two wouldn't have hurt, but these guys would play a jug band number ahead of a drug anthem anytime. Their cover of Brewer and Shipley's "Truly Right" is pretty spacy in its production, though, but "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" -- an adaptation of an old children's song -- was probably beyond the pale of most listeners. Beyond NGDB completists, anyone looking for a companion to Notorious Byrd Bros. or the Monkees' Aquarius, Capricorn Pisces & Jones Ltd., or a precursor to Crazy Horse's At Crooked Lake, need look no further. (British import) ~ Bruce Eder If You Enjoy "Ricochet (Import) (CD)", May We Also Recommend:
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