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New West – Ninja Tune
Drive By Truckers – Decoration Day “This one probably makes the biggest difference on vinyl of any of the reissues. I’m thrilled with how well this album has aged and how good it sounds on vinyl. Glen Schick in Atlanta remastered it and did an excellent job. Please note, it was too long for one disc, but too short for four sides, so it is three sided. Sequenced that way, it flows like the suspension on a 76 Eldorado, burns a little too much gas, but tops out at around 120. I couldn’t be happier to see this album finally getting it’s needle-dropping due.” – Patterson Hood, Drive By Truckers LP = AWST 5006 $24.98 (two Limited Edition LPs)
Drive By Truckers – The Dirty South
Drive By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark “Our most controversial and polarizing album. I’m frequently told it’s someone’s favorite one of our albums. Then 10 minutes later someone tells me how much they hate it. I’ve been through periods of both emotions at different times myself. Upon listening to it two-plus years later I still have decidedly mixed feelings…’Space City’ is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and ‘A World of Hurt’ is probably my second favorite song I’ve written. ‘Wednesday’ sounds like Adam’s House Cat and I always liked that band.” – Patterson Hood, Drive By Truckers LP = AWST 5009 $24.98 (two LPs)
“This is our best selling album and I think it’s aging really well. This one sounds quite different on vinyl and in the best of ways. It almost sounds like different mixes on some songs. It came out on vinyl in the UK a few years back. Their packaging was better than the new reissue, but I think this generation (with mastering by Sterling) sounds a little better.” – Patterson Hood, Drive By Truckers LP = AWST 5007 $24.98 (two Limited Edition LPs)
Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe
Drive By Truckers – A Blessing and a Curse
John Hiatt – Same Old Man
“Our most controversial and polarizing album. I’m frequently told it’s someone’s favorite one of our albums. Then 10 minutes later someone tells me how much they hate it. I’ve been through periods of both emotions at different times myself. Upon listening to it two-plus years later I still have decidedly mixed feelings…’Space City’ is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard and ‘A World of Hurt’ is probably my second favorite song I’ve written. ‘Wednesday’ sounds like Adam’s House Cat and I always liked that band.” – Patterson Hood, Drive By Truckers LP = AWST 5008 $19.98 (Limited Edition LP)
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Working Man’s Café, a new studio album by legendary musician and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame member Ray Davies (founder, singer, songwriter of The Kinks), features 12 new songs written by Davies and co-produced with Grammy-Award winning producer/engineer Ray Kennedy. The album focuses on the plight of the worker, the every day man around the world. It is Davies’ “American record” (many of the songs were written in the U.S.) describing the changes he’s seen in this country since he first started visiting in the ‘60s. LP = AWST 5010 $24.98 (two LPs) Same Old Man was recorded at Highway 61 Recordings and produced by John Hiatt. Appearing on the album are Kenneth Blevins on drums, Patrick O’Hearn on bass and Luther Dickinson on guitar, mandolin and national resonator. John’s daughter, Lilly Hiatt, sings harmony on the songs “Love You Again” and “What Love Can Do.” John Hiatt’s career has spanned more than 30 years and his songs have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, and BB King to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night and The Neville Brothers. John Hiatt began his solo career with the 1974 album Hangin’ Around the Observatory. Hiatt’s landmark 1987 release Bring The Family received critical praise and was his first album to chart in the U.S. In 1993, Rhino Records released Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt, which collected many of the cover versions of his songs that were recorded during the 80s and 90s. 2000’s Crossing Muddy Waters was released on the independent imprint Vanguard Records to critical acclaim and called “The most natural and relaxed John Hiatt album. LP = AWST 5011 $18.98
Old 97’s – Blame It On Gravity
Shout Factory Gold CD & LPs (Cisco)
Some bands blast out of the gate and never recapture their early energy. Other bands establish themselves as models of consistency. Still other bands take a while to find themselves. And then there are bands like the Old 97’s, who blast out of the gate, establish themselves as models of consistency, take a while to find themselves and then, 15 years in, deliver a glorious record that sums up everything about them that fans have always loved. With Blame It On Gravity, the seventh Old 97’s record and the second for New West, the band has made its definitive statement. It is a 13-song powerhouse of an album that finds the band turning up the amps and returning to the
Famous Blue Raincoat: 20th Anniversary Edition/Jennifer Warnes Mastered by Bernie Grundman. Cut at 45 RPM! Pressed on HQ 180-gram virgin vinyl! Approved by Jennifer Warnes herself, who announced upon first listening, “That’s it!!!” Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary Edition 45 RPM LP set features two LPs of quiet virgin vinyl, a 24-page 12” square booklet with complete lyrics, five bonus tracks (four from the Shout! Factory CD plus a Cisco exclusive analog demo recording of “A Singer Must Die,” with one missing verse added and a breathtakingly upfront vocal by Jennifer), production notes and exclusive photographs, all packed in a beautiful box for excellent presentation and preservation of your investment. The 45-RPM version of this great title is a much more refined and satisfying listening experience. Bass is deeper, highs glisten but aren’t excessive and Jennifer’s non-EQ’d voice becomes a “living presence” in your listening room. An important and much-loved record like Famous Blue Raincoat deserves to be heard exactly as the artist intended. On Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warnes rearranged and reinterpreted some of Leonard Cohen’s greatest songs for a unique album that remains the ultimate tribute to Cohen’s music. It was greeted with rave reviews, and made numerous year-end best-of lists. Gold CD = CCISG 8011 $29.99 LP = ACIS 7060 $79.99 (two 45-RPM LPs)
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satisfying crunch of its early records. LP = AWST 5012 $18.98
Ninja Tune LP Fink – Distance and Time If Biscuits for Breakfast, Fink’s debut album for Ninja Tune, signified a partial seismic musical shift for both artist and label, then Distance and Time realigns both sides of the tectonic plate. This glorious follow-up showcases Fink’s sharpened knack for thoughtful songwriting that details fragmented moments full of heartache and hopeful promise, steeped in sonic palettes rich with dub, blues, folk and acoustic soul. LP = ANJA 136 $22.98