Mystery Box

June 11, 1996
Mickey Hart
Rykodisc
Producer: Mickey Hart
Number of discs: 1
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Track List

  1. Where Love Goes (Sito)
  2. Full Steam Ahead
  3. Down The Road
  4. The Sandman
  5. Next Step
  6. Look Away
  7. Only The Strange Remain
  8. Sangre De Cristo
  9. John Cage Is Dead
  10. Last Song

Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box is an album by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. It was released on CD and cassette by Rykodisc Records on June 11, 1996. The album combines Hart’s percussion-based world music with the vocal harmonies of the British singing sextet the Mint Juleps. Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics for all the songs.The song “Only the Strange Remain” was later performed live by the Other Ones, and appears on their album The Strange Remain.

  • The bombastic "John Cage Is Dead" is a masterful amalgam of percussive-heavy world beats in an undulating modern context.

    Lindsay Planer
    AllMusic

  • Mystery Box'' pulses with life and zings with harmonious energy. Should it get any airplay, it will blow away TLC or any of the commercially disposable female vocal groups of the day.

    Roger Catlin
    Hartford Courant

  • What ensues is an album with more of a rhythm and blues feel than many Hart fans may be accustomed, but much like Robbie Robertson's excellent, self-titled release from 1987, persistence will pay off with tremendous rewards.

    John Metzger
    The Music Box
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