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·       ROOSEVELT SYKES WITH MEMPHIS SLIM (ALBUM PRODUCTION AND PIANO BACKING ON ONE TRACK) – BLUES - ORIGINAL 1961 FOLKWAYS MONO LP FS-3827

 

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

 

 

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

 

 

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL DARK BLUE FOLKWAYS LABEL WITH SILVER SCRIPT.

 

·       GUARANTEED TO INCLUDE ORIGINAL 4-PAGE BOOKLET  / BROCHURE

 

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" (LEATHER-LIKE) COVER.

 

·       LIKE MANY OTHER ALBUMS RELEASED ON THE FOLKWAYS / SMITHSONIAN / BROADSIDE / RBF FAMILY OF LABELS, THIS ALBUM HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING COVER COLOR VARIATIONS, ALL OF WHICH APPEAR TO BE ORIGINAL AND CONTAIN THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING INSIDE:; THIS IS THE  BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE VERSION OF THE COVER.

 

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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The Folkways label might be one of the few organizations that would attempt to make Roosevelt Sykes seem dull. This album is one of several that Sykes' compadre and fellow boogie-woogier Memphis Slim was involved in producing, and they practically come packaged like sex education manuals, complete with crudely printed insert, albeit made a bit classier by the presence of liner notes by Valerie Wilmer. Calling a Sykes album "blues" seems like an ethnomusilogical understatement, and the insertion of his nickname "the Honeydripper" in parentheses everytime his name is printed eventually makes it seem like this is some kind of academic distinction. Nonetheless, the sheer joy that is Roosevelt Sykes comes bubbling from the grooves the moment the needle hits. The songs include some of the numbers that were regular fare for Sykes when he was a small band leader, while others are more intimate, including his spoken offsides (probably with a cigar in his mouth). The final track hints at the more expansive Fats Waller-style playing he would get into as he got older and was performing solo for listening audiences. Like many recordings on this label, dynamic level is set too low and the piano ends up fighting for space against the surface noise, which can hardly be what the performer nor his producer had in mind. Speaking of Slim, he does join in for one duet, but otherwise this is solo Sykes. Lyrics are included, but there is no attempt to credit who might have composed the tune. Sykes tends to add so many little touches to his cover versions that it might be tempting to call them his own compositions by the time he gets through with them.

 

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY EUGENE CHADBOURNE, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

 

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·                               CONDITION:

 

·                               RECORD

 

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

 

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►.

 

(b)          The album is guaranteed to come with the original booklet still intact.

 

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

 

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

 

 

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, “BOOK-BOUND”, TEXTURED COVER):

 

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

 

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

 

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

 

-         Cover has two corners slightly dinged (nothing significant)

 

-         Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

 

 

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

 

 

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