Old Enough to Forget

I found a sealed copy of Pretty Green and was intrigued. It was on Nettwerk, the one-time indie darling label out of Vancouver that helped bring Grapes of Wrath, Sarah McLachlan, and Barenaked Ladies to the rest of the world. Okay, two out of three, but those early Grapes of Wrath records were pretty awesome. So here was an album that was essentially new, but likely poorly stored who knows where, as the jacket is nicely wobbled even if in immaculate shape (it's a conundrum), but the record itself was in pristine shape. I had no idea what to expect, and I was kind of surprised at the lack of information out there on this one. Which was pretty much nothing. Even Nettwerk doesn't list this anywhere on their site. It's like it never happened. But it did. I'm on my second pass now, and this is really something. Especially as this was 1987, and here was a band doing alternative folk rock where the banjo and dobro were front and centre. Ed Blocki, the band's vocalist and m...