This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Another 10,000 Maniacs album without Natalie Merchant? Yeah, well, The Doors made albums without Jim Morrison too.
And they were about as memorable inspired as this one — a bunch of milquetoast folk-pop, dripping with bulletin-board platitudes like, “the smallest step … starts a journey.” Well, the smallest step backward pretty much ends a journey, doesn’t it?
