Now and Again (The Grapes of Wrath album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Now and Again

| type = Album

| artist = The Grapes of Wrath

| cover = GrapesOfWrath NowandAgain.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 20, 1989

| recorded = 1988–1989

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Alternative rock

| length = 42:19

| label = Nettwerk

| producer = Anton Fier

| prev_title = Treehouse

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = These Days

| next_year = 1991

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r8521|pure_url=yes}} link]

| noprose = yes

}}

Now and Again is an album by Canadian band The Grapes of Wrath, released in 1989. It was the band's first album to feature new member Vince Jones on keyboards. The album was produced by Anton Fier and was recorded in an old (and supposedly haunted) church in Woodstock, New York.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} Guest musicians included Chuck Leavell, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Jane Scarpantoni.

Now and Again was certified Platinum in Canada and is the band's most commercially successful album to date. The album contained one of the band's biggest hit singles, "All the Things I Wasn't". Now and Again was the 13th best-selling Cancon album in Canada of 1989.{{Cite magazine|title=Top 50 Cancon Albums of '89|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6646&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6646.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6646|access-date=May 15, 2021|publisher=RPM}}

In Chart magazine's 2000 reader poll of the Best Canadian Albums of All Time, Now and Again ranked in 27th place.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2000/06/3003.cfm |title=Top 50 Canadian Albums Of All-Time (30 To 21) |magazine=Chart |access-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001018194108/http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2000/06/3003.cfm |archive-date=18 October 2000 |url-status=usurped}}

For the singles "What Was Going Through My Head" and "Do You Want To Tell Me", the b-sides were songs recorded on CBC Radio program Brave New Waves. One was an acoustic version of the song "Backward Town", and the other was a cover of Paul McCartney's "Let Me Roll It".