Album Notes

"... with The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday, Messick plants his flag firmly in an acre of [Americana music]'s finest soil ... the album showcases Messick's diversity as a seasoned songwriter at home in various genres, from rockers like "Leave The Rest Behind" to the roadhouse honky tonker "So Little Left To Lose" to love songs of longing such as "Whiskey Colored Eyes"" - Gleason Booth, Texas Music Magazine

The CD, Messick's sophomore effort after 2007's promising debut Bootlegger's Turn, features 14 new originals and a backing band that includes Reckless Kelly's Cody Braun & David Abeyta, steel guitar legend Lloyd Maines, hot folk quartet The Trishas, singer/songwriter buddy Mark Jungers, Eleven Bones rockers Adam Odor, John Ross Silva, Meagan Jones, & Matt Skinner, Groobees alum Scott Melott, and Hayes Carll bandmate Scott Davis. Produced at Austin's legendary Cedar Creek Studios and turned loose on the world by the critically touted singer/songwriter/entertainer/journalist Mike Ethan Messick, The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday is prime country-rock for a new decade.