Evergreen, Volume 2

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Evergreen, Vol. 2 is the second and most commercially successful of the Stone Poneys’albums, and includes their hit song, “Different Drum”.

Evergreen, Vol. 2

Studio Album by Stone Poneys

Released:	June 12, 1967
Recorded:	Spring 1967
Genre:	Folk rock
Length:	32:51
Label:	Capitol
Producer:	Nick Venet

Stone Poneys Chronology

The Stone Poneys
(1967)

Evergreen, Vol. 2
(1967)

Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III
(1968)

Singles from Evergreen, Volume 2

1.	“One for One” b/w “Evergreen”	Released: May 15, 1967
2.	“Different Drum” b/w “I’ve Got to Know”	Released: September 25, 1967

Evergreen, Vol. 2 is the second album from Stone Poneys, released five months after The Stone Poneys. It was the most commercially successful of the Stone Poneys’ three studio albums.

CONTENTS

Release Data

Original Album

CD Reissues

Notes on the Tracks

Reception

Track Listing

Side 1

Side 2

Personnel

Bandmembers

Other Musicians

Other Credits

References

Release Data

Original Album

The album was released in the LP format on Capitol in June 1967 in both monaural and stereophonic editions (catalogue numbers T 2763 and ST 2763, respectively), and subsequently, on 8-track tape (catalogue number 8XT 2763) and cassette (catalogue number C4-80129).

CD Reissues

In 1995, Capitol reissued the album on CD (catalogue number CDP-80129).

The Australian label Raven issued a 27-track “two-fer” CD in 2008, featuring all tracks from this album and the band’s first album (under its 1975 reissue name, The Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt), plus four tracks from their third album, Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III.

Notes on the Tracks

In a departure from the first album, Linda Ronstadt was the lead vocalist on almost all songs, with only occasional harmony vocals. The exception is the title song. Kenny Edwards sang lead on “Evergreen, Part One” (also released as the B-side of the album’s first single, “One for One”), while “Part Two” is an instrumental. Both parts have a psychedelic rock feel and feature sitar playing (also by Edwards).

The album contains the band’s biggest hit, “Different Drum“, written by Mike Nesmith prior to his joining the Monkees. As Edwards recalled, the band based their original recording of the song on a version by the Greenbriar Boys from their 1966 album Better Late than Never!: “We cut a version very much like that, with mandolin, kind of a jug bandy, bluegrass-lite version.”^[2]

Record producer Nick Venet, sensing that the song could be a hit, had Linda Ronstadt re-record it with other musicians. The Stone Poneys‘ version went to No. 12 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart (with ‘featuring Linda Ronstadt’ on the single label). However, “Different Drum” did not chart until November 1967, after the band’s four-month tour to support the album; Edwards had already left the Stone Poneys by then.

The first single from the album, “One for One”, did not chart. It was co-written by Austin de Lone, later a member of seminal country rock band Eggs Over Easy, a group credited with launching the pub rock movement in Great Britain.^[3]

Five of the songs were co-written by band members Bobby Kimmel and Edwards. Kimmel also co-wrote “New Hard Times” – with the unusual theme of examining the downside of ’60s affluence – with Mayne Smith, a member of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first bluegrass band, the Redwood Canyon Ramblers.^[4]

Many of the other songwriters featured on the album, like the Stone Poneys themselves, were struggling singer-songwriters on the Los Angeles folk scene. Steve Gillette contributed “Song about the Rain” and “Back on the Street Again”, and he sang harmony vocals with Ronstadt on the latter song. The Sunshine Company had their biggest hit with “Back on the Street Again” (reaching No. 36 in Billboard), and Gillette included it on his eponymous debut album;^[5] both versions were released in 1967. More than 30 years later, West Coast bluegrass band Laurel Canyon Ramblers (led by Herb Pederson) released the song as the title track of their third CD, in 1998.^[6]

“December Dream,” the album’s opening track, was written by John Braheny, who had a brief career as a singer-songwriter before moving on to other areas of the music business. Fred Neil recorded the song in the same general time period, although it remained unreleased until the 1998 double-CD compilation album The Many Sides of Fred Neil.^[7] Braheny also included the song on his eccentric 1970 LP, Some Kind of Change.^[8]

Reception

Professional ratings / Review scores

Source	Rating
Allmusic	***^[1]

Track Listing

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	“December Dream”	John Braheny	3:30
2.	“Song About the Rain”	Steve Gillette	2:40
3.	“Autumn Afternoon”	Ken Edwards/Bobby Kimmel	2:35
4.	“I’ve Got to Know”	Pamela Polland	2:38
5.	“Evergreen (Part One)”	Edwards/Kimmel	3:10
6.	“Evergreen (Part Two)”, instrumental	Edwards/Kimmel	3:33

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	“Different Drum“	Mike Nesmith	2:45
2.	“Driftin’ “	Edwards/Kimmel	2:30
3.	“One for One”	Al Silverman/Austin de Lone	2:50
4.	“Back on the Street Again”	Steve Gillette	1:50
5.	“Toys in Time”	Edwards/Kimmel	1:50
6.	“New Hard Times”	Mayne Smith/Kimmel	3:00

Personnel

Bandmembers

Bobby Kimmel: Guitar, Vocals
Kenny Edwards: Guitar, Sitar, Lead Vocals on “Evergreen Part One”
Linda Ronstadt: Lead Vocals, Finger Cymbals

Other Musicians

Jimmy Bond: Bass
Dennis Budimir: Guitar
Pete Childs: Guitar
Cyrus Faryar: Acoustic Guitar, Bouzouki
John T. Forsha: Guitar
Steve Gillette: Guitar, Harmony Vocals (on “Back on the Street Again”)
Jim Gordon: Drums
Bernie Leadon: Guitar on “Different Drum”^[9]
Billy Mundi: Drums
Joe Osborn: Electric Bass
Don Randi: Harpsichord
Sidney Sharp: Violin, Concertmaster
Norman Botnick: Strings
William Durasch: Strings
Jesse Ehrlich: Strings, Violin, Cello, Viola
Harry Hyams: Strings, Violin, Cello, Viola
William Kurasch: Violin, Cello, Viola
Leonard Malarsky: Strings
Stanley Plummer: Strings, Violin, Cello, Viola
Robert Sushel: Strings, Violin, Cello, Viola

Other Credits

Warren Barnett: Mastering
Richie Unterberger: Liner Notes
Peter Shillito: Compilation, Concept, Release Preparation
Ian McFarlane: Release Preparation
Kevin Mueller: Release Preparation

References

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review of Evergreen, Vol. 2 (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r50275/review) at AllMusic. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
Online excerpt (http://www.richieunterberger.com/venet.html), Richie Unterberger, Eight Miles
High: Folk-Rock’s Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, 2003: Backbeat Books, ISBN 978-0-87930-743-1. Retrieved April 5, 2009.
Thompson, Dave. Biography of Eggs Over Easy (https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p12860/biography) at AllMusic. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
Redwood Canyon Ramblers (http://www.maynesmith.com/redwood.htm). Retrieved June 6,
2009.
Roach, Pemberton. Review of Steve Gillette by Steve Gillette (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r130042/review) at AllMusic. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
Pendragon, Jana. Review of Back on the Street Again by Laurel Canyon Ramblers (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r366136/review) at AllMusic. Retrieved June 6, 2009.
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review of The Many Sides of Fred Neil by Fred Neil (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r399855/review) at AllMusic. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
Unterberger, Richie. Review of Some Kind of Change by John Braheny (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r558133/review) at AllMusic. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
https://bringmethenews.com/life/linda-ronstadt-praises-minneapolis-music-legend

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