TOWNES VAN ZANDT, Live & Obscure ‎USA 1st pressing Excellent- LP

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Townes Van Zandt – Live & Obscure Label: Sugar Hill Records (2) – SH-1026 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1989 Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country Blues, Country, Folk Tracklist A1 Dollar Bill Blues 2:42 A2 Many A Fine Lady 3:50 A3 Nothin' 2:39 A4 Pueblo Waltz 2:15 A5 Talking Thunderbird Blues 2:05 A6 Rex's Blues 2:16 A7 White Freightliner Blues 3:11 B1 Loretta 3:24 B2 Snake Mountain Blues 2:49 B3 Waitin' 'Round To Die 2:45 B4 Tecumseh Valley 4:24 B5 Pancho And Lefty 4:17 B6 You Are Not Needed Now 4:28 Companies, etc. Licensed From – Eggers Group Inc. Manufactured By – Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sugar Hill Records, Inc. Mastered At – Masterfonics Credits Art Direction, Design – G. Brook Sefton Executive-Producer – Harold F. Eggers Jr.* Flute, Saxophone – Donny Silverman Lead Guitar – Mickey White Liner Notes – Robert K. Oermann Photography By – Alan L. Mayor, Mary Gottwald, Niles J. Fuller* Producer – Stephen J. Mendell Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Written-By, Producer – Townes Van Zandt Notes Recorded live on April 19, 1985 at 12 & Porter, Nashville, Tennessee.  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS, LOOKS ALMOST NEW.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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