Ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith revisits cult 1972 album with latest tour

As his tenure in the Monkees was drawing to a close in the late '60s, singer, songwriter and guitarist Michael Nesmith had no clue just how much his music, and his life, would change when he walked in one night to the fabled Palomino country music club in North Hollywood.

That's where he was first exposed to Orville J. "Red" Rhodes, who soon became a partner in a musical exploration that became central to Nesmith's post-Monkees solo career.

Rhodes, Nesmith wrote in his 2017 "autobiographical riff" "Infinite Tuesday," was an "undisputed master" of the pedal steel.

"Red was a string section and a brass section