Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash

Infobox Album
Name = Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash
Type = Album
Artist = Michael Nesmith


Released = 1973
Recorded = Mar 12 - 16, 1973
Genre = Rock, country
Length = 31:26
Label = RCA
Producer = Michael Nesmith
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfyxq9gld6e link]
Last album = "And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'"
(1972)
This album = "Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash"
(1973)
Next album = "The Prison - A Book With A Soundtrack
(1974)

"Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash" is American singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith's seventh album, released in 1973. It did not chart.

"Some of Shelly's Blues" was written by Nesmith as a potential Monkees’ release during his ’68 Nashville sessions. That version remained unissued until the ‘90s. "Some of Shelly's Blues" was also recorded previously by both the Stone Poneys and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s 1967 self-titled debut.

The song "Winonah" marks the first time Nesmith co-wrote a song with collaborating songwriters since the Monkees song, "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" (featured on the album "More of the Monkees").

"Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash" was Nesmith's final album for RCA Records. The album, however, was, re-released on the Pacific Arts label and subsequently on CD by multiple labels. It was reissued with "And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'" by BMG International in 2000. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difqxqy0ldse And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' and Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash reissue review on Allmusic.] ]

Track listing

# "Continuing" (Michael Nesmith) – 3:55
# "Some of Shelly's Blues" (Michael Nesmith) – 3:21
# "Release" (Michael Nesmith) – 3:49
# "Winonah" (Michael Nesmith, Linda Hargrove, James Miner) – 3:56
# "Born to Love You" (Cindy Walker) – 3:55
# "The Back Porch and a Fruit Jar Full of Iced Tea" – 8:19
## a. "The F.F.V" (Trad. Arrangement by Michael Nesmith)
## b. "Uncle Pen" (Bill Monroe)
# "Prairie Lullaby (Billy Hill)" – 4:12

Personnel

* Michael Nesmith – vocals, guitar
* Jay Lacy – electric guitar
* Dr. Robert K. Warford – electric guitar, banjo
* David Barry – piano
* O.J. "Red" Rhodes – pedal steel
* Billy Graham – bass, fiddle
* Danny Lana – drums and percussion

References