It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing

Would you agree that it’s time for a reappraisal of Mike Nesmith’s 1968 masterpiece, The Wichita

Train Whistle Sings? I first heard this terrific concept album after my father brought a copy back from the States in that year and it’s fascinated and delighted me ever since. It never really troubled the Billboard scorers at the time (not even reaching the Top 100) where, perhaps, the listening public weren’t quite ready yet for ‘serious’ music from a Monkee! We’re now 50-plus years on from that and, I would politely suggest, high time for a re-evaluation of Nesmith’s (ably assisted by ‘The Wrecking Crew’) meisterwerk. Peter Bowler, Loughton