Original Master Recording Ry Cooder – Boomer's Story Ltd Ed MFSL 1-405 MOFI

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Original Master Recording Ry Cooder – Boomer's Story Ltd Ed MFSL 1-405 MOFI

Strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies

Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – MFSL 1-405

Series: Original Master Recording – , Gain 2™ Ultra Analog LP 180g Series 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Special Edition, Gatefold 180g 

Country: US

Released: 31 May 2017

Genre: Rock, Blues

This recording Sounds Sublime: Mastered from Original Master Tapes, Features Audiophile Dynamics

Guitarist Pays Tribute to the Past and Updates Music for Future on Rustic Record Steeped in Folk, Blues, and Soul

Ry Cooder's development as a peerless musician capable of grasping virtually any style began with his time spent with Taj Mahal and Captain Beefheart, but for all intents and purposes reaches epic proportions on Boomer's Story. With two ambitious albeit uneven studio albums behind him, the California native plunged into roles that still define him today – that of sonic archeologist and cultural historian, shaping his 1972 Reprise effort with enlightened selections carved into the bedrock of America's folk, blues, and soul landscapes. Inspired, virtuosic, and poignant, Boomer's Story endures as a ravishing portrait of inspired translation and inventive craftsmanship that after years of neglect finally boasts sonics deserving of the performances.

Mastered from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, and strictly limited to 3000 numbered copies, our 180g LP of Cooder's breakout teems with natural tones, front-to-back imaging, and vintage tube warmth. Boomer's Story benefits from vibrant textures and organic openness, two prized traits that come to fore with breathtaking realism on this analog reissue. Details ranging from the audible resonance of the drum skins, drifting reverb on the guitar, and inner cavity of the piano take up residence on deep-black soundstages. Individual notes appear and recede with lifelike decay. Cooder and company sound as if they're in the room, playing in real time with one another. This record has never been more dynamic or involving.

Having initiated his self-taught learning of customs established by the likes of Josh White, Woody Guthrie, Charlie Johnson, and Robert Johnson as early as age four, and grown up a son of parents obsessed with Folkways Records, Cooder never suffers from the retro rehash fakery plaguing countless contemporary revivalists. A true original, the guitarist simultaneously pays tribute to the past and updates it for the future. Boomer's Story, brims with traditional tunes (the title track, "Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man"), classic blues ("Ax Sweet Mama," "Cherry Ball Blues"), and World War II standards ("Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer").

A spellbinding blend of personality, respect, and innovation grace every song. Evoking the timeless rusticism and "weird, old America" vibe of Bob Dylan and the Band's Basement Tapes, Boomer's Story unfolds with a relaxed ease and back-porch chemistry underlined by the musicians' unpretentious demeanors and potent abilities. Drummer Jim Keltner, percussionist Milt Holland, and bassist Jim Dickinson (also a producer) are among the cast fleshing out Cooder's visions. The headliner also welcomes country-blues legend Sleepy John Estes to sing on his own "President Kennedy" and leans on pianist Randy Newman to help him transform the normally bellicose "Rally ‘Round the Flag" into a patient, mournful protest.

Cooder attains equally meaningful, emotional results on a definitive wordless interpretation of the staple soul ballad "The Dark End of the Street," expressing unfathomable depths of regret and longing via slide-guitar work that draws a line back to Blind Willie McTell's immortal spiritual "Dark Was the Night" – a song Cooder called "the most transcendent piece in all American music." Indeed, the degree of interplay attained by twinkling keys, rambling beats, brass accents, and dazzling guitar lines – also finger-picked and strummed – on Boomer's Story breathes with a rare air increasingly endangered in an era of on-demand immediacy and auto-tuned imitation. This, as it's said, is the real deal.

Grading:  

Vinyl - Mint - New & Sealed

Sleeve - Mint - New & Sealed

MOFI MFSL Numbered Special Edition.

Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab® • Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl • Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve • Heavy Duty Protective Packaging • Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Tracklist

A1

Boomer's Story

4:13

A2

Cherry Ball Blues

4:10

A3

Crow Black Chicken

2:14

A4

Ax Sweet Mama

4:23

A5

Maria Elena

4:30

B1

Dark End Of The Street

3:25

B2

Rally 'Round The Flag

3:34

B3

Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer

3:00

B4

President Kennedy

4:39

B5

Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man

4:30

VINYL GRADING-VISUAL UNLESS STATED

MINT - SEALED

NEAR MINT (N/M)  LP LOOKS LIKE IT HAS HARDLY BEEN PLAYED IF AT ALL. VINYL HAS A NICE SHEEN. MAY CONTAIN BARELY NOTICEABLE LIGHT NON SOUNDING MARK

EXCELLENT+ (EX+) LP ALMOST IN N/M CONDITION WITH THE ODD LIGHT NON SOUNDING MARK AND THE ODD SPINDLE TRAIL.

EXCELLENT (EX)  LP ALMOST IN EX+ CONDITION WITH THE ODD LIGHT HAIRLINE AND SOME NON SOUNDING MARKS.

VERY GOOD+ (VG+)  LP ALMOST IN EX CONDITION WITH A FEW HAIRLINES/SCUFFS/MARKS 

VERY GOOD (VG)  LP HAS SEVERAL SOUNDING AND NON SOUNDING MARKS WHICH WILL REDUCE THE QUALITY OF SOUND BUT WILL PLAY THROUGH WITHOUT ANY SKIPS/JUMPS

POOR (P) - LP IS IN POOR SHAPE. LOTS OF SOUNDING MARKS/SCRATCHES. WILL NOT PLAY THROUGH WITHOUT SKIPS/JUMPS. 

SLEEVE GRADING

NEAR MINT (N/M)  SLEEVE "AS NEW" WITH THE ODD LIGHT CREASE/MARK WHICH IS HARDLY NOTICEABLE.

EXCELLENT+ (EX+)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN N/M CONDITION WITH THE ADDITION OF A FEW VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR/CREASES, VERY CLEAN 

EXCELLENT (EX)  SLEEVE ALMOST EX+ BUT WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME LIGHT AGE WEAR/BLEMISHES TO THE COVER AND/OR EDGES. MAY HAVE SOME WRITING ON (ALWAYS DISCLOSED ON ITEM DESCRIPTION) 

VERY GOOD+ (VG+)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN EX CONDITION. MORE PROMINENT EDGE WEAR/BLEMISHES AND WEAR TO THE EDGES/CORNERS. STILL NO RIPS OR TEARS

VERY GOOD (VG)  SLEEVE ALMOST IN VG+ BUT WILL SUFFER FROM STAINING/HEAVY AGE WEAR AND MAY CONTAIN SMALL RIPS/TEARS

POOR (P)  SLEEVE IN POOR SHAPE. WILL BE TORN/STAINED AND HEAVY AGE WEAR. 

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