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Neil Young "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" Ultra Rare White Label Promo 1A/1A 1st pressing

This is absolutely the best sounding copy that I have ever heard and this is coming from a HUGE Neil Young fan. More clarity and dynamics than all other versions. Definitely without that “audiophile sound” from recent reissues. This is a MINT 1969 1st pressing White Label Promo. (Gatefold 1969 Reprise Records, RS-6349)

And here is the great news . . . this particular WLP plays as close to MINT as possible!

If you check out White Label Promos previously sold, the actual vinyl was not rated even close to this condition. After obtaining this copy, your search for E.K.T.I.N. will be over.

CONDITION 

Cover: Excellent Plus condition. The Gatefold cover has some aging/fading. This is a 45 year old album! There is a little tape reside where a small piece of tape had been placed across the top. As you can see from the photo below it isn't very visible. The only sign of very limited wear is at the side opening. And this is very limited.
Just look closely at the actual scanned images!

Sound Quality: MINT! The sound quality is flawless and wonderful throughout. This is the best sounding copy that I have ever heard of this album. Dynamic with clarity. This is the way E.K.T.I.N. should sound!

Vinyl: MINT condition. The vinyl retains all of its original shine. Under a bright halogen lamp, the vinyl looks almost brand new. Vinyl is stored in a MFSL record sleeve.
Matrix Runout Side 1 (etched):   30910 RS-6349 A 1A
Matrix Runout Side 2 (etched):   30911 RS-6349 B 1A

Label Description: These labels are MINT without spindle or any other marks.
Just look closely at the actual scanned images!

Vinyl Sleeve: Included is the original inner sleeve in NEAR MINT condition. No seam tears; only the expected fading after 45 years.
Just look closely at the actual scanned images!

Please closely examine the actual scanned images. You will be amazed.

Tracklist:
1 Cinnamon Girl                                                
2 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3 Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4 Down by the River
5 Losing End (When You're On)
6 Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets)
7 Cowgirl in the Sand

Review                                                                              by William Ruhimann

Neil Young's second solo album, released only four months after his first, was nearly a total rejection of that polished effort. Though a couple of songs, "Round Round (It Won't Be Long)" and 'The Losing End (When You're On)," shared that album's country-folk style, they were altogether livelier and more assured. The difference was that, while Nei/ Young was a solo effort, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere marked the beginning of Young's recording association with Crazy Horse, the trio of Danny Whitten (guitar), Ralph Molina (drums), and Billy Talbot (bass) that Young had drawn from the struggling local Los Angeles group the Rockets. With them, Young quickly cut a set of loose, guitar-heavy rock songs — "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," and "Cowgirl in the Sand" — that redefined him as a rock & roll artist. The songs were deliberately underwritten and sketchy as compositions, their lyrics more suggestive than complete, but that made them useful as frames on which to hang the extended improvisations ("River" and "Cowgirl" were each in the nine-to-ten minute range) Young played with Crazy Horse and to reflect the ominous tone of his singing. Young lowered his voice from the near-falsetto employed on his debut to a more expressive range, and he sang with greater confidence, accompanied by Whitten and, on "Round Round," by Robin Lane . Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere was breathtakingly different when it appeared in May 1969, both for Young and for rock in general, and it reversed his commercial fortunes, becoming a moderate hit. (Young's joining Crosby, Stills & Nash the month after its release didn't hurt his profile, of course.) A year and a half after its release, it became a gold album, and it has since gone platinum. And it set a musical pattern Young and his many musical descendants have followed ever since; almost 30 years later, he was still playing this sort of music with Crazy Horse, and a lot of contemporary bands were playing music clearly influenced by it.

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