''Tropical Campfires'', originally known as ''Tropical Campfire's'', is an album by

Michael Nesmith Robert Michael Nesmith or Mike Nesmith, (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series ''The Monkees'' (1966� ...

released in 1992 after Nesmith's 13-year hiatus from making studio albums. It is the 9th and final Nesmith album to feature guitarist

Red Rhodes Orville J. Rhodes, better known as Red Rhodes or O. J. Rhodes (December 30, 1930 – August 20, 1995), was an American pedal steel guitarist. His mother taught him to play the Dobro at the age of five, but at the age of fifteen he switched to ...

, who died in 1995.

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writes that "Along with

Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician and record producer, best known as the lead guitarist and male lead vocalist of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fl ...

's '' Out of the Cradle'', this album may be one of the finest and most underrated albums of the 1990s." The seemingly incorrect original spelling of the album's title comes from an excerpt printed inside the CD booklet: "Now she must navigate by the southwestern tropical campfire's mambo raga songs, their sounds rising from the desert floor ..." The original 1992 CD on Pacific Arts reads "campfire's" but the 2001 and 2008 reissues have the apostrophe missing from the cover artwork. All versions of this album were released encoded in the

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format.

Track listing

All songs written by Michael Nesmith except where otherwise noted. # "Yellow Butterfly" – 5:22 # "Laugh Kills Lonesome" – 4:12 # "Moon Over the Rio Grande" – 5:58 # "One... " – 5:19 # "Juliana" – 6:09 # "

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" ( Bob Russell, Ary Barroso, Russell Sidney) – 5:35 # " In the Still of the Night" (

Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to ...

) – 3:09 # "Rising in Love" – 4:42 # "

Begin the Beguine "Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song between Kalabahi, Indonesia, and Fiji during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard Cunard's ocean liner ''Franconia''. In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knig ...

" (Cole Porter) – 5:18 # "I Am Not That" – 2:45 # "...for the Island" – 5:18 # "Twilight on the Trail" – 4:28

Personnel

*Michael Nesmith – guitar, vocals, liner notes *

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– bass, background vocals *

John Jorgenson John Richard Jorgenson (born July 6, 1956) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, he is also proficient on the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel gu ...

– guitar, mandolin, background vocals *John Hobbs – keyboards, background vocals *

– guitar, pedal steel guitar *

Luis Conte Luis Conte (born 16 November 1954) is a Cuban percussionist best-known for his performances in the bands of artists including James Taylor, Madonna, Pat Metheny Group, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart and Shakira. He began ...

– percussion * Nelson Stump - cowbell *Robbie Sneddon - percussion, harp Production notes *Michael Nesmith – producer *Mike McDonald – engineer *Peter Rynston – mastering *Jeff Adamoff – art direction *

Henry Diltz Henry Stanford Diltz (born September 6, 1938, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American folk musician and photographer who has been active since the 1960s. Career Among the bands Diltz played with was the Modern Folk Quartet. While a member of ...

– photography *Val Jennings – project coordinator *Jeff Lancaster – design *Stan Watts – illustrations

References

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