Manassas - Down The Road Apiece (1973)

Manassas released a debut album in 1972 that more than lived up to the promise of the coming together of Stephen Stills, Chris Hillman, Dallas Taylor and Al Perkins among others, and so expectations were high for the follow-up. When it arrived, it was a solid, but generally unexceptional album - some have even classed it as poor. There are certainly some fine songs on there, but it just didn't live up to the potential of that debut, and so suffered in comparison. With the release of the 'Pieces' mopping up operation in 2009, we found that there were more songs recorded for those two albums which didn't make the cut at the time, but were actually better than some of the songs on the released versions. Fans have been proposing revised tracks lists for quite a few years, and so I've taken the general consensus of what would be the best songs to include, tracked them down on 'Pieces' and an out-takes bootleg that's doing the rounds, and put together this reconstruction, which hopefully is now the definitive version of Manassas' second album. I've titled it 'Down The Road Apiece' as it's a combination of songs from 'Down The Road' and 'Pieces'. 

Track listing

01 Witching Hour
02 Isn't It About Time
03 Lies
04 Pensamiento
05 So Many Times
06 Like A Fox
07 Down The Road
08 Do You Remember The Americans
09 Guaguanco De Vero
10 Love And Satisfy
11 Rollin' My Stone
12 Thoroughfare Gap
13 High And Dry
14 I Am My Brother