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James Taylor – Sweet Baby James Label:Warner Bros. Records – WS 1843, Warner Bros. Records – 1843 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released:1970 Genre:Rock Style:Folk Rock, Acoustic, Soft Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1Sweet Baby James A2Lo And Behold A3Sunny Skies A4Steamroller A5Country Road A6Oh, Susannah Written-By – Stephen Foster Written-By – Stephen Foster B1Fire And Rain B2Blossom B3Anywhere Like Heaven B4Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me B5Suite For 20G Companies, etc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Produced For – Marylebone Productions, Inc. Published By – Country Road Music, Inc. Recorded At – Sunset Sound Mastered At – Sunset Sound Recorders Credits Arranged By [Brass] – Jack Bielan Art Direction – Ed Thrasher Bass – Bobby West*, John London, Randy Meisner Drums – Russ Kunkel Engineer – Bill Lazerus Fiddle – Chris Darrow Guitar – Danny Kootch* Guitar, Vocals – James Taylor (2) Mastered By – Darrell Johnson Photography By – Henry Diltz Piano – Carole King Producer – Peter Asher Steel Guitar – Red Rhodes Written-By – James Taylor (2) (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B5) Notes Original US release. Track A6 is misspelled as "Oh, Susanna" on record, but spelled correctly as "Oh, Susannah" on back picture sleeve.  Cat# on labels is "WS 1843" Cat# on sleeve (front, spine and back) is "1843" Release contains folded poster with album lyrics on the back. Recorded at Sunset Sound, December '69 Mastered at Sunset Sound, December '69 Produced for Marylebone Productions, Inc. Published by Country Road Music Inc. BMI/Blackwood Music, Inc. Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Subsidiary & Licensee of Warner Bros. Inc., 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, Calif. 488 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.  

USA 1970 SECOND PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH POSTER AND ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: P WS 39638-7 LAZARUS  /  SIDE B: WS 39639. 6 LAZARUS.

SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS IN OPENED SHRINK WRAP. PEN NAME ON REAR.  POSTER AND INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO DAMAGE.

DISC: SIDE ONE IS VERY GOOD+, JUST SHORT OF EXCELLENT MINUS DUE TO A SCRATCH ON 'OH, SUSANNAH', OTHERWISE JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. SIDE TWO IS EXCELLENT MINUS WITH A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

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.