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Omnivore Revives "Rosebud" From Henske, Yester, Doerge On New Expanded Edition

June 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Last year, the Omnivore label began its retelling of the story of Judy Henske and Jerry Yester with the hotly-anticipated, first authorized reissue of the then-married duo's 1969 cult favorite album Farewell Aldebaran.  Now, the Henske/Yester tale continues with another lavishly expanded CD reissue: this time, of 1971's Rosebud.  The album was so named for the band itself, featuring Henske on vocals, Yester on vocals, bass, and banjo, her future husband Craig Doerge on vocals, keyboards, and vibes, John Seiter on vocals, drum and percussion, and briefly, David Vaught on bass.  Like Aldebaran, Rosebud served up a delicious array of songs for which the term "pop" was just too loose.  A hint came from the label originally releasing Rosebud: Frank Zappa's Warner Bros.-affiliated Straight imprint.  Rosebud was more rooted in tuneful songcraft than its predecessor (every song was penned by the band members in one configuration or another), with just enough experimentation around the edges.  Thanks to Omnivore's new edition, there's now twice as much to savor.

That the fiercely eclectic streak on Aldebaran wasn't tempered for Rosebud is evident just listening to the first two songs, as the raucously percussive "Panama" segues into the French choral number, "Le Soleil."  Henske's big, bluesy, Broadway-by-way-of-L.A. voice drives much of Rosebud, but she blends beautifully throughout the album with Yester, Doerge, and Seiter in sparkling four-part harmony.    Impressionistic takes on various locales pepper the album, from the soft, slinky "Reno" (featuring The Wrecking Crew's Mike Deasy on lead guitar) to Henske's tenderly autobiographical "Western Wisconsin" as subtly sung by Doerge.  Western imagery fills "Roll Home Cheyenne," a melodic travelogue sing-along with jazz's Ray Brown and Barry Zweig on acoustic bass and guitar, respectively.

"Lorelei" offers hypnotic balladry and dark beauty; similarly spellbinding is "Flying to Morning." It has a cinematic feel (with Doerge's shifting melody enhanced by Yester's supple string chart) that makes it one of the album's most ambitious tracks.  The band's more out-there inclinations are aired on "The Yum Yum Man," an offbeat country-rock tune featuring Yester on banjo and pedal steel great Buddy Emmons doing what he did best.  Gospel gets an airing on the rousing ode "Salvation," sung by Seiter, while on the other end of the spectrum, a gentle "Lullaby II (Summer Carol)" is a harmony-laden gem arranged with strings and horns.  It's a more peaceful bookend to the harrowing "Lullaby" written by Yester and Henske for Farewell Aldebaran.

The original album was likely too eclectic to register commercially, but it's no less worthy for that and no less accessible to interested ears.  It has been generously expanded with ten additional tracks here by reissue producer Cheryl Pawelski.  Two of these have been derived from singles: the promotional mono 45 mix of "Reno," and the rollicking B-side "Lazy," with Henske languidly crooning over saloon-style piano and her bandmates lightheartedly adding harmonies.  A full seven tracks are previously unreleased including demos and finished versions of "Mercury of Fools" and "Hey, Old Friend."  The latter, a low-key piano-driven ballad, has Yester singing on the demo but Henske on the final version.  Other work-in-progress tracks include the demo of "Le Soleil" and "What's the Matter with Sam," an embryonic song that eventually became "Panama" and the album's opening track.  The twangy, appealingly ragged outtake "Easy on Me, Easy" was later re-recorded by Craig Doerge at Columbia.  Just as good is the dramatic, churchy "Father of Souls," sung by both Henske and Seiter.

Michael Graves has remastered all of the tracks here in splendid fashion.  Barry Alfonso's liner notes reflect on Rosebud's brief existence in incisive fashion, drawing on new quotes from Henske, Yester, and Doerge.  Indeed, Rosebud had withered by the end of 1971, leaving behind just this one lone LP.  Happily, the diverse music the band recorded in a short period of time can now find full flower.

You can order Omnivore's expanded reissue of Rosebud at Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada!

Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jerry Yester, Judy Henske, Rosebud

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. Trevor Bartram says

    June 23, 2017 at 4:12 am

    I have the CCM Rosebud CD and it's a pleasant listen, I prefer it to Aldebaran (admittedly only heard on YouTube) but I was never convinced enough of its greatness to by the Omnivore CD. I look forward to the expanded edition of Rosebud.

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