Name: Yeti Boombox [Digipak] *
Brand: Tapete Records
SKU: 1320811
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Yeti Boombox [Digipak] *

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Album: Yeti Boombox [Digipak] *
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Moonboot Canyon
2)	Easy
3)	Embraceable
4)	Over Hills and Down the Hollows
5)	What It Is to Fly
6)	North Shore Baby
7)	Dust
8)	Long White Ride
9)	Desert Fathers
10)	Last Yeti, The
11)	Daughters of the Empire
12)	This Town Too Long

Performer Notes

Personnel: Mark Rozzo (vocals, guitar, harmonica, Mellotron); Steve Koester, Steve Koester (vocals, guitar, piano); Craig Schoen, Craig Schoen (vocals, guitar); Done Piper (vocals, lap steel guitar, percussion); Ira Elliot (vocals, drums, percussion); Dave Knowles (trumpet); Gerry Beckley (organ, Mellotron).
Audio Mixers: Craig Schoen; Craig Schoen.
Recording information: Between the Bridges, Brooklyn, NY (11/2008-12/2008); Beyond Notes, Brooklyn, NY (11/2008-12/2008); Rusty's Sound Shack, Brooklyn, NY (11/2008-12/2008); Whiney Cat Audio, Seattle, WA (11/2008-12/2008).
One might assume that yetis would either be into Tibetan religious chants or random German art rock, but on the basis of the Brooklyn-based Maplewood's second album, they prefer to crank sweetly sung, steel guitar-tinged, and ultimately fairly conventional country-rock ditties when stomping around the Himalayas. Which is no crime, but a little more bass would probably keep the boombox going some. All of which is to say that Maplewood are out to pay homage to their harmony singing and sweetly twanging inspirations so well that there's honestly little to say about it in the end -- tender sentiments, gentle strums, the feeling of the kind of stuff that went down well after coming home from the bar back in 1978 but perhaps with a little less of a backbeat. It's no surprise at all that Gerry Beckley from the band America takes a guest turn on the album, and even less of a surprise that whatever one thinks of Yeti Boombox will likely be conditioned by that fact. ~ Ned Raggett