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I Always Catch The Third Second Of A Yellow Light

by Tom Nehls

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    This is the 13th release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double album packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Tom Nehls' incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

    Includes unlimited streaming of I Always Catch The Third Second Of A Yellow Light via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    2 Disc CD, with all the Now Again Reserve Edition bonus material, packaged in a 6-panel eco-wallet. Includes booklet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of I Always Catch The Third Second Of A Yellow Light via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

A rock concept album, as progressive as it is psychedelic, recorded by a 17 year old Tom Nehls and his high school friends in Minneapolis over a three month period in late 1972. Nehls original notes describe his influences: The Beatles, Zappa, Tolkien. But that amalgamation cannot prepare you for the depths that this wunderkind explored with first-time engineer Paul Stark, who would later found Twin/Tone Records and sign and develop punk legends The Replacements and dozens of other bands.

Stark custom pressed a run of Paul 1000 copies of the album but 900 of them were destroyed when Nehls basement flooded. He hand assembled the remaining copies, spray painting the first few covers and then pasting black and white sheets of paper on the rest. He sold a few copies to friends in his high school. And that, for nearly 20 years, was that.

Legendary psychedelic record collector Rich Haupt, one of the first to discover Nehls’ album over three decades ago, writes “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and true genius never comes in a slick package. If these words are true, I Always Catch the Third Second of a Yellow Light is the proof." This album is a welcome addition to the genre Paul Major called “Real People Music” – a wonderful and sincere exploration of the human predicament that reveals more of itself with each listen.

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released May 23, 2019

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