Sold Date: August 1, 2016
Start Date: July 7, 2016
Final Price: £49.99 (GBP)
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ROOSEVELT HOLTS - " PRESENTING THE COUNTRY BLUES ", Blue Horizon (7-63201) Mono, 1968.

Extremely rare, UK very first pressing LP of the classic LP on Blue Horizon featuring 1966, Louisiana made recordings of the cult country bluesman.

The front laminated sleeve, matte finish light blue label and matrix numbers ending in A1 and B1 mark this out as the very first pressing.


Matrix numbers

SIDE A = 7-63201 A1
SIDE B = 7-63201 B1


Professionally cleaned on my Moth record cleaning machine and put in a new poly-lined inner sleeve (the original inner has been retained for originality- see photo)


CONDITION:

VINYL  =  EX- (No deep scratches, excessive surface noise, distortion, etc. Pretty clean labels with barely a spindle trail. Under a strong direct light, this LP is in pretty good shape with just a few paper scuffs and a couple of other very faint surface marks - unsurprisingly, these are purely superficial and do not correlate to any audible defects. Playback it good, the music is strong, clear and punchy, certainly not suffering distortion or muffling that you would associate with over playing, which correlates with the clean labels. By and large this record plays more to an excellent grading but I have to include it's visual appearance for the main grading. As this record plays out, there is a bit of occasional faint surface noise audible in some quieter and silent sections before and between tracks, plus the odd faint background crackle occasionally just audible.

Certainly not in museum piece/archive condition, but to my mind these slight, mainly cosmetic imperfections definitely do not ruin the listening experience and as long as you're expecting a a 60s record not some sterile CD reissue, it's still a great example or a very rare original LP. Clearly this LP has only had fairly light use in the past and is more than ready to be enjoyed as originally intended. Plus, should sell for a more realistic price than the huge premium archive copies are now hitting.

Note: for the purposes of this listing I have tested this LP on my Linn LP12 Sondek turntable - generally this is quite a critical test, but I must point out that I cannot guarantee exactly how this LP will sound on your turntable - common sense for most... but then this is ebay!!!)


SLEEVE =  EX- (No rips, no tears, no defacing, or heavy ring wear, seam splits, etc. But does suffer some small creases in the laminate, some very light wear to the edges and corners and a sticker on the rear sleeve from the original vendor which I'm counting as part of the record's history, rather than a defect - see photos for further clarification)


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