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He said The Planets turned out so well that he thought that it should be the last Green album, “because I didn’t think that we could top it and I wanted the last album to be as good as the best of our recorded output.”įriends of the Shepherd Help support Milwaukee's locally owned free weekly newspaper. “When I think of all the times we came so close to a really great record deal that miraculously fell through or we got calls from this bigwig or that titan who never called back,” Lescher waxes philosophically, “the sheer nearness of success that never materialized in full, it makes me think that either the songs and recordings were not what I think they are (I’m nuts-probably, the most likely explanation) or else there is a confederacy of dunces opposing me and us.” It was another star-crossed chapter in the band’s history. Lescher had barley released a solo album All Is Grace with Green he played Circle A shortly before the pandemic hit. Lescher wore his influences on his sleeve (in pre-Americana 1992 he recorded an album with Janet Beveridge Bean in tribute to the music of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris) and never lacked wit-the band’s 1988 EP REM was the music nerd’s answer to REM’s album Green. with Elephonic and Cabin Essence.Įver the underdog, Green was always the odd-band-out in times of fleeting grunge or industrial dance fads. While the general public yawned, those in the know, knew. Leader Jeff Lescher effortlessly added to the canon of great American and British pop music. Green performs "Gotta Getta Record Out" at Phyllis' Musical Inn June 1987Ĭhicago band Green released a debut EP in 1984 and followed with a string of seven well-received and critically-acclaimed albums through 2009’s The Planets.
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