THIS IS THE GERMAN ORIGINAL PRESSING on INSTANT Records. LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL.  The single cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration, BUT light discolouration/wear on spines/corners, surface sticker mark on rear (top right corner), top & left spines are fully readable, for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The vinyl is in EX condition and plays wonderfully.

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EDDIE HINTON

with ROGER HAWKINS, DAVID HOOD, CLAYTON IVEY, RONNIE EADES,

JIMMY JOHNSON, JEFFREY SIMPSON, OWEN BROWN, JOHN D. WYKER, OLD JOE WALK

Guitarist, songwriter, and singer Eddie Hinton may be one of the great, unheralded white blues musicians of all time. Fortunately, fans can latch onto a few recordings on compact disc. Hinton died far too young at the age of 51 on July 28, 1995, yet his guitar playing can be heard all over famous recordings by famous people -- hit records by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge, the Staple Singers, the Dells, Johnny Taylor, Elvis Presley, Boz Scaggs, Hour Glass, Otis Redding, and even reggae star Toots Hibbert of Toots & the Maytals.Hinton was a session guitarist non-pareil. After working with Southern bands like the Spooks and the Five Minutes, he played lead guitar for Muscle Shoals Sound rhythm section from 1967 to 1971. What most people didn't know at the time was that Hinton was also a talented singer, songwriter, arranger and producer in his own right.

"LETTERS FROM MISSISSIPPI"

1986     LP     INSTANT RECORDS     INLP 4.00172 J

MADE IN GERMANY    ORIGINAL PRESSING

LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL

SINGLE SLEEVE

Barcode and Other Identifiers

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LABEL: INSTANT /LINE-  WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Label Code: LC 9416

Catalog on cover: INLP 4.00172 J       

Catalog on labels: INLP 4.00172

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 4. 00172 A Hi

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 4. 00172 B Hi

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights......Prohibited"

GEMA    LC 9416    ℗ 1986    © 1986

Produced by Jimmy Johnson, John D. Wyker & Eddie Hinton

Licensed by Amaltheo Records & Music, Malmö, Sweden

Rights Society: GEMA

On back cover: Tracklist + Credits

Notes by Kalle Oldby

All songs written by Edward Craig Hinton

Instant Records, a division of Line Music GmbH

Pressed and printed in Western Germany

P.1986 Amalthea Records C.1986 Line Music GmbH

tracklisting

Side A: MY SEARCHING IS OVER - SAD AND LONESOME

EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE - LETTERS FROM MISSISSIPPI

EVERYBODY MEETS MR. BLUE - UNCLOUDY DAY

Side B: I WANT A WOMAN - TING A LING LING - I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

IT'S ALL RIGHT - I'LL COME RUNNING (BACK TO YOU)

grading

RECORD EX (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Sadly, Hinton's 1978 critically hailed Capricorn Records debut, Very Extremely Dangerous, was released shortly before the Macon, Georgia-based label folded. In 1982, Jimmy Johnson of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section took Hinton into the studio to record a half-dozen songs for a new album, but that project was never released, and the blow to his ego, coupled with a divorce, sent Hinton into a personal tailspin. Changing musical trends brought popular tastes further away from blues and soul for a time in the '80s (until the rise of Stevie Ray Vaughan brought blues back into vogue) and Hinton was living on the streets in Decatur, Alabama when he ran into an old friend, John D. Wyker. Wyker and Hinton were friends in the University of Alabama's drum and bugle corps. Wyker saw to it that Hinton again had housing and a plan to record again. With the help of some friends, Owen Brown and Jeff Simpson, Wyker began recording Hinton at Birdland Recording Studio and the new songs were combined with the tunes recorded by Jimmy Johnson in 1982. The result was Letters from Mississippi, an album that sparked a career renaissance for Hinton...(AllMusic)