Cooder, Ry - Jazz - Super Hot Stamper

Cooder, Ry - Jazz - Super Hot StamperWe're big fans of Ry Cooder here at Better Records, and it's always fun to hear the eccentric instruments and arrangements he and his partners in crime cook up. Of course, it's even more fun when you have a great sounding pressing like this one that lets you hear what the musicians were up to. This vintage Warner Brothers pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. Folks, that sound is gone and it

What The Best Sides Of Pussy Cats Have To Offer Is Not Hard To Hear

There’s no smear to the sound

It’s steeply

It's only when you have something better that its faults come into focus

In recent interviews

This is the Stones at their most experimental

not in my experience anyway

yet somehow copies emerged from our shootouts that made it easy to appreciate the sonic merits of Blue and ignore its shortcomings

Wish I could take a picture of the microscopy to actually show you the difference

wall-to-wall

but repeated listenings has shown me the error of my ways

My Favorite Big Band Vocal Album Ever