Stewart, Al - Year of the Cat - White Hot Stamper

Stewart, Al - Year of the Cat - White Hot Stamper*NOTE: There is a bubble in the vinyl that plays as 5 light thuds at the start of track 3 on side 1, "Midas Shadow." Tubey Magical acoustic guitar reproduction is superb on the better copies of this recording. Simply phenomenal amounts of Tubey Magic can be heard on every strum, along with richness, body and harmonic coherency that have all but disappeared from modern recordings (and especially from modern remasterings). If you exclusively play modern

The instruments here are recorded with remarkable fidelity

Since they are some of the most talented jazz musicians to have come up in the last 40+ years

Lee Herschberg is one of our favorite producers and recording/mixing engineers

Damn the Torpedoes being the best of the bunch for sonics

Every sound captured on these albums is so carefully crafted and considered that it practically brings one to tears to contemplate what the defective DBX noise reduction system did to the work of genius that is Katy Lied

They look fine

This is the kind of record that you'll want to keep turning up

A Classic Rock Masterpiece

Now it's a piece of music as opposed to a piece of plastic

What We're Listening For On Striking It Rich

What We're Listening For On Memorial Album

Good old Bernie Grundman handled the mastering and managed to do a really nice job