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Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls  Label:ECM Records – ECM-1-1190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Wakefield Pressing Country:US Released:1981 Genre:Jazz Style:Contemporary Jazz, Fusion AAs Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls20:44 B1Ozark4:03 B2September Fifteenth (Dedicated To Bill Evans)7:44 B3"It's For You"8:20 B4Estupenda Graça2:40 Copyright © – ECM Records GmbH Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ECM Records GmbH Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Record Company – Warner Communications Published By – Pat-Meth Music Published By – Lyle Mays Music Recorded At – Talent Studio Pressed By – Wakefield Manufacturing – 38537 Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk Composed By [Compositions By] – Lyle Mays, Pat Metheny Design – Barbara Wojirsch Electric Guitar [Electric Six String Guitar], Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic Six String Guitar], Twelve-String Guitar [Electric Twelve String Guitar], Twelve-String Guitar [Acoustic Twelve String Guitar], Bass – Pat Metheny Engineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug Lacquer Cut By – RL* Musician [With], Berimbau, Percussion, Drums, Vocals – Nana Vasconcelos* Photography By [Cover Photo] – Klaus Frahm Photography By [Liner Photo] – Rob Van Petten Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Autoharp – Lyle Mays Producer [Produced By] – Manfred Eicher Recorded September 1980 at Talent Studio, Oslo.

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH LABEL INSERT AND ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. 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.