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Yeah that one at 2 LP 45 RPM is gonna sound amazing. I'm set with my 1A original and my VMP copy though.

I've been to Noble records, great little shop. Kinda tucked away off a busy business district road next to a mega-church parking lot, go figure. Very well curated selection of used records. Been following their owner on Youtube and Instagram. They have a Holy Moly wall of rare and hard-to-find...

Yes. It's very funk/soul leaning besides the Jesus People album which is straight up big gospel choir....and Blue Aquarius which isn't gospel at all — it's more like hippie rock and the spiritual topics are more about Eastern/Maharaji stuff a la George Harrison and not Christian/Gospel. The...

Sames. If I ever pick up another copy of American Beauty it'll be an original olive label.

That Hot Buttered Soul one-step is really nice. I still think this one sounds best though: https://www.discogs.com/release/14080549-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul Tighter punchier bass guitar, drums are punchy af and the snare really snaps. The high end is more lively. I got it for like $10 a...

That Billie Joe Shaver is one of the best sounding country ROTMs they've ever done. Outstanding. Great songs to boot.

So pumped for Everybody Digs Bill Evans. Gonna have cheaper/tip-on jacket/33 RPM Craft reissues of everything in the AP Bill Evans Riverside box set before you know it. Jackpot is killin' it with their RSD slate. They have really stepped up their game. I wish they would use better jackets but...

Lol. I was playing one of his YouTube interviews the other day at 2x speed and it seemed like he was still talking normal/slow and the guys interviewing him were talking super fast, just nuts

The Rhino Master of Reality from 2010ish was Ron McMaster not Chris Bellman. Bellman cut Volume 4 for Rhino, Kevin Gray cut Paranoid, and McMaster cut S/T and Master of Reality. All pressed at Rainbo I think, but I never got a noisy one of any of those.

I haven't picked that one up yet but that was explicitly advertised as "all analog" and Blue Note gave them the tapes. Really would be more interested if they got a top guy like Kevin Gray/Bernie Grundman/Ryan Smith/Chris Bellman/etc to master it

People only complain about D2C if their customer service and/or shipping boxes stink. Impex/Elusive Disc and AP/Acoustic Sounds are D2C. Rhino and Craft are just much better at label stuff than they are at retail. Elusive Disc and Music Direct and Acoustic Sounds are full blown retail arms of...

Yeah only the Small Batch from Craft are D2C. Unless you count the small portion they allot to Acoustic Sounds to sell.

This was what the email announcement said: Announcing the launch of Bluesville Records — Craft’s revitalized reissue series and editorial platform which honors America’s bedrock music genre. In addition to releasing foundational blues titles from such legendary labels as Prestige, Vee-Jay...

It basically is southern soul, but it was a hit on the country charts, won a bunch of CMA awards, and she was big in the country scene so it's pretty well accepted as a country record

Patrick Stewart as the sick neo-nazi leader villain in that movie is so perfect.

I think Waits/Brennan oversee the digital remastering. And those remasters have been fine. The actual vinyl mastering/cutting is where we get the lack of quality compared to originals. But then against if you're not cutting your LPs with a premier engineer like Bellman/Grundman and are just...

I don't have that one, but I have the Bernie ORG 45 and I like that one much more than the mono mix VMP. Both are good, kinda apples to oranges comp too

1972 Lee Hulko for sure

Interesting, I thought that Waylon was incredible, perhaps my favorite Country ROTM of 2023. And The Bobbie Gentry mono and the Jack Elliott were both fantastic as well. I didn't get the Chalino, not my cup of tea

Yeah, I consider it the curse of the audiophile — always wanting to find a better pressing. Personally I've been tempted by newer pressings that are lauded as the "best yet" at times (depends on how much I love the album) but like you normally I stop once I have a version I'm satisfied with. I...