BLIND WILLIE McTELL King Of The Georgia Blues LP 1969 ROOTS UK MONO 1st Press

	£		80
	$		106

HELLO AND WELCOME TO MY 'ONE OFF' WEDNESDAY NIGHT AUCTIONS (ENDING LATE WEDNESDAY 18TH MAY / EARLY THURSDAY 19TH!)!!!!

As many people may already know, I usually end all my items on Sunday nights (and these will still continue!)!!!!  However as I had quite a few extra items of UTMOST RARITY come in to me this week (they really are TOP QUALITY, and NOT cheap overstock!) and completely ran out of time to list them last Sunday - I decided to do a 'one off' set of listings of Wednesday auctions ending on Wednesday 18th May!!!!  So PLEASE NOTE that this auction will end late on Wednesday 18th May (and NOT Sunday!) - though of course, I will be putting more auctions on during the week for next Sundays auctions!!!!  And please don’t forget take a look at my other auctions, as there really are some INCREDIBLE items listed!!!!  Thanks for reading and please take a look at this AMAZING item below:-

On offer here is a VERY rare LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Blind Willie McTell called "King Of The Georgia Blues Singers" and is an ORIGINAL 1969 UK MONO 1st Pressing on the 1st Press Roots label!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!!!  THIS IS ONE OF THE RAREST LPs ON THE UK ROOTS LABEL - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE!!!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!!!  BACK IN 1969 WHEN THIS LP WAS FIRST RELEASED IN THE UK - ONLY 500 COPIES WERE EVER MADE, BEFORE IT WAS DELETED FOREVER!!!!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!!!!  BUT WHAT MAKES THIS LP REALLY SPECIAL IS THAT IT IS A 100% GENIUNE UK 1ST PRESSING - AND STRICTLY LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY!!!!  AND THIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ON THIS LP!!!!  SO OFTEN THE 'ROOTS' LABEL GETS OVERLOOKED IN THE BLUES DEPARTMENT - BECAUSE THEY ARE MANY MANY RE-ISSUES AND DODGY PRESSINGS (SOMETIMES DATING MANY YEARS AFTER ORIGINAL RELEASE!)!!!!  THEREFORE MANY PEOPLE GET CONFUSED, DON'T KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR, AND OFTEN MISS THE UK 1ST PRESSINGS - WHICH ARE UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE ALL TIME RAREST UK BLUES LPs EVER MADE!!!!  MOST COPIES YOU SEE ARE COMMON RE-ISSUES, COMMON AUSTRIAN PRESSINGS, OR U.S. PRESSINGS - MOST OF WHICH DATE FROM MANY YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL RELEASE.  HOWEVER THIS ONE IS A 100% GENIUNE UK 1ST PRESSING, WAS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY - AND HAS MAJOR DIFFERENCES COMPARED TO ALL OTHER PRESSINGS!!!!  FIRSTLY THE UK 'ROOTS' LABEL WAS MADE AND SOLD BY THE 'SAYDISC' BLUES LABEL - AND SO ALL 100% GENIUNE UK 1ST PRESSINGS HAVE A UK 'SAYDISC' STICKER ON THE COVER FRONT (OTHER PRESSINGS DON'T!)!!!!  SECONDLY THE COVER MUST HAVE THE UK ADDRESS ON THE COVER BACK - SHOWING IT WAS MADE IN THE UK (OTHER PRESSINGS HAVE DIFFERENT TEXT OR COUNTRY PRINTED HERE!)!!!!  THIRDLY THE LABELS & COVER BACK HAVE PRINTED 'LIMITED EDITION'!!!!  AND LASTLY THE VINYL IS UK PRESSED, AND ALWAYS HAS LIGHT BLUE/GREY LABEL USING UK PRINTING AND TEXT (OTHER PRESSINGS DONT!)!!!!  SO THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT AT ALL - THAT THIS IS A 100% GENIUNE UK 1ST PRESSING, STRICTLY LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY - AND IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME RAREST UK BLUES LPs EVER MADE!!!!

NOT ONLY BUT THIS LP IS IN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CONDITION - AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!!!!  THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1969 UK MONO 1ST PRESSING ON THE 1ST PRESS ROOTS LABEL, 1ST PRESS A/B MATRIX ENDINGS, 1ST PRESS INNER SLEEVE, AND 1ST PRESS 'STICKERED' FULLY LAMINATED MONO COVER!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL Roots UK 1st Pressing from 1969 and is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  The record is pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is RL 324 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press Roots label (see picture) and is a UK MONO 1st Pressing!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing, and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THIS RECORD HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!!!  The vinyl is in absolutely BRILLIANT condition!!!!  Most of these 60s LPs had been to a lot of wild parties and are usually found totally worn out, and almost unplayable. This one is NOT and has NO scratches, NO hairlines, NO scufflines, only 2 or 3 TINY surface marks, and only a VERY few of the lightest paper scuffs only visible under light!!!!  ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!  THE RECORD STILL RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND LOOKS SUPERB!!!!  It is also great to find that the playing of the record is almost as STUNNING as the visual!!!!  It plays with NO skips, barely ANY clicks AT ALL, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some slight background sound in places (which is common to ALL copies of this pressing from new!)!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO groovewear and NO distortion either!!!!  The record must grade Very Good++++ if not better!!!!  BRILLIANT RECORD!!!!  Believe me this record is NOT overgraded in ANY way!!!!  I use STRICT RC grading standards - it is not in my interest not to!!!! Brillant!!!!  The record also comes in its ORIGINAL 1st Press inner sleeve which is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The ORIGINAL 1st Press 'Stickered' FULLY Laminated MONO Cover is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only slight corner wear (NOT through the colour!), NO splits, only a VERY few light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), NO rips, NO tears, only some very VERY minor evidence of 'tipping in' to the corners, shiny laminate, only a MEGA thin line of laminate lifting along the spinal edge, NO annotations, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edge is beautifully straight with barely ANY feathering AT ALL!!!!  Even the laminated back of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade Very Good++ if not better!!!!  THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!

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