Mike Nesmith - Magnetic South (1970)

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Wanna hear melodic yodeling? Wanna hear pedal steel guitar played well? Wanna hear Monkees songs countrified? Get Magnetic South.

Mike Nesmith's first real solo album, this album features Red Rhodes - the master pedal steel guitar player.

As a result you've got one of the more melodic mergings of Country and Rock - long before The Eagles ruined the genre.

"Mama Nantucket" and "Keys to the Car" really work the yodeling, which works REALLY well on this album - in fact it makes you ask 'Where has yodeling gone???' It seems these days its only in Ricola commercials.