USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE. ALMOST NEVER SEE SOMETHING SIGNED BY GUY CLARK-- SUPER RARE!!!

SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS, LOOKS ALMOST NEW.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS. SIGNED "FOR M.S. Guy Clark 5.14.89"

DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. CLEAN LABELS.


Guy Clark – Old Friends Label:Sugar Hill Records (2) – SH 1025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released:1988 Genre:Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style:Folk Rock, Country Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1Old Friends Written-By – Guy Clark, Richard Dobson, Susanna Clark Written-By – Guy Clark, Richard Dobson, Susanna Clark3:10 A2Hands Written-By – Guy Clark, Joe Henry (3), Verlon Thompson Written-By – Guy Clark, Joe Henry (3), Verlon Thompson2:15 A3All Through Throwin' Good Love After Bad Written-By – Guy Clark, Richard Leigh Written-By – Guy Clark, Richard Leigh2:45 A4Immigrant Eyes Written-By – Guy Clark, Roger Murrah Written-By – Guy Clark, Roger Murrah3:36 A5Heavy Metal Written-By – Guy Clark, Jim McBride Written-By – Guy Clark, Jim McBride2:59 B1Come From The Heart Written-By – Richard Leigh, Susanna Clark Written-By – Richard Leigh, Susanna Clark3:16 B2The Indian Cowboy Written-By – Joe Ely Written-By – Joe Ely2:20 B3To Live Is To Fly Written-By – Townes Van Zandt Written-By – Townes Van Zandt3:12 B4Watermelon Dream Written-By – Guy Clark Written-By – Guy Clark3:20 B5Doctor Good Doctor Written-By – Guy Clark Written-By – Guy Clark2:32 Companies, etc. Recorded At – SBK Studios Copyright © – SBK April Music Inc. Copyright © – GSC Music (2) Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sugar Hill Records, Inc. Lacquer Cut at – Georgetown Masters Pressed By – Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc. Credits Bass – Dave Pomeroy Cover [Concept And Painting] – Guy Clark Engineer – Miles Wilkinson Fiddle, Mandolin, Mandola – Sam Bush Graphics – Thomas Ryan Design Guitar, Percussion, Harmony Vocals – Verlon Thompson Guitar, Vocals – Guy Clark Harmony Vocals – Emmylou Harris (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B3), Rodney Crowell (tracks: B1), Rosanne Cash(tracks: B1, B4) Lacquer Cut By – Denny* Lead Guitar – Vince Gill (tracks: B5) Mastered By – Denny Purcell Percussion – Miles Wilkinson Producer – Guy Clark, Miles Wilkinson Slide Guitar [National] – Michael Henderson* (tracks: A2) Notes Recorded at SBK Studios. Digitally mixed and mastered.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.