{"id":21208,"date":"2021-06-29T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:59:01","slug":"album-review-various-artists-yesterdays-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/29\/album-review-various-artists-yesterdays-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Various Artists \u2013 Yesterday\u2019s Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21209\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/yesterdays_tomorrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/yesterdays_tomorrow.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/yesterdays_tomorrow-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/yesterdays_tomorrow-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If you\u2019re at all familiar with the alternate and\/or college rock scenes of the 1970s and \u201880s, you\u2019ll know the names Mitch Easter (Let\u2019s Active, producer of R.E.M.), Peter Holsapple (The dB\u2019s, Continental Drifters), Chirs Stamey (The dB\u2019s, work with Alex Chilton) and Don Dixon. This busman\u2019s holiday of a sort is a document of a live performance from 2018 in which those artists (plus others of comparable reputation and quality) get together and dig into their collective musical pasts.<\/p>\n<p>The set list is the kind of thing that a music fanatic and\/or critic might have put together. But these guys aren\u2019t doing it to be arch pop archivists; they\u2019re re-living (for a moment) the music of their youth, the songs they played as teenagers and young men.<\/p>\n<p>And quite often, the tunes are demanding stuff. No \u201cLouie, Louie\u201d here; no, instead we get Bubble Puppy\u2019s \u201cHot Smoke and Sassafras,\u201d a tune that veers perilously close to prog while rocking hard-as-hell. The Music Machine\u2019s \u201cTalk Talk\u201d is no easy tune to execute, either. These musicians \u2013 in various configurations that reunite their old bands or create bizarrely-named new aggregations \u2013 are having the time of their lives as they reunite with old friends and dig into these songs.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the super covers are songs by the artists themselves. Let\u2019s Active\u2019s \u201cRoom With a View\u201d gets a lovely lead vocal from Lynn Blakey (with Mitch Easter). Sneakers get back together to play a few of their classics (\u201cRuby,\u201d \u201cCondition Red,\u201d \u201cS\u2019il Vous Plait\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>If you have even the slightest passing interest in either (a) any of these fine artists or (b) these semi-obscure covers or (c) both, <i>Yesterday\u2019s Tomorrow<\/i> is a must-have. And the liner notes are a delightful must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re at all familiar with the alternate and\/or college rock scenes of the 1970s and \u201880s, you\u2019ll know the names Mitch Easter (Let\u2019s Active, producer of R.E.M.), Peter Holsapple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,49,62,65],"tags":[529,4575,4574,1492,1692,2153],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garage","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-chris-stamey","tag-don-dixon","tag-lets-active","tag-mitch-easter","tag-peter-holsapple","tag-the-dbs","cat-33-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21210,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions\/21210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}