Red Rhodes appeared at a time when the poetry that had smouldered through country music shape shifted. The one thing you can count on in music is unlikeliness. It’s hard to track from whence things come from and how they will end up. Otherworldliness with the Ventures and carving a new waft of emotional possibilities with Mike Nesmith’s First National Band through 3 pivotal records. Then there is the matter of the VELVET HAMMER IN A COWBOY BAND: 1973 Countryside Records. The completely uncharted territory of a singular pedal steel lp that flies up into classical, jazz-rock and who knows what, leaving us experiencing how resoundingly wonderfull music can be.