LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, Album III USA 1st pressing Excellent- LP [Dead Skunk]

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Loudon Wainwright III – Album III  Label: Columbia – C 31462 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Terre Haute Pressing Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Dead Skunk 3:08 A2 Red Guitar 1:47 A3 East Indian Princess 2:57 A4 Muse Blues 2:55 A5 Hometeam Crowd 1:50 A6 B Side Recorded By, Mixed By – Will Roper Recorded By, Mixed By – Will Roper 2:27 B1 Needless To Say 3:13 B2 Smokey Joe's Cafe Written-By – Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller* Written-By – Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller* 2:31 B3 New Paint 3:02 B4 Trilogy (Circa 1967) 3:12 B5 Drinking Song 2:54 B6 Say That You Love Me 2:29 Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Columbia Records Manufactured By – CBS Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc. Copyright © – CBS Inc. Published By – Frank Music Corp. Published By – Quintet Music, Inc. Published By – Freddy Bienstock Music Co. Recorded At – Marquee Studios Engineered At – 914 Sound Studios Mixed At – 914 Sound Studios Mixed At – A&R Studios Mixed At – Marquee Studios Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound Mastered At – Customatrix Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Credits Backing Band [Instrumental Group] – White Cloud Design [Cover] – Karenlee Grant Drums – Richard Crooks Electric Bass – Don Payne Electric Guitar – Charles Brown III Engineer, Mixed By – Brooks Arthur Executive-Producer – Milton Kramer Fiddle – Kenneth Kosek* Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Banjo, Pedal Steel Guitar – Bill Keith Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Bass – Richard Davis (2) Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Electric Bass – Tom Watso Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Electric Guitar – Eliott Randall* Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], French Horn – David Amram Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Guitar – Hugh McCracken, Jimmy Ryan (3) Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Guitar, Dobro – Eric Weissberg Instruments [Additional Instrumentalist], Mouth Organ – Sailor Bob Schmidt Lacquer Cut By – LH* Mixed By [Additional Mixes] – Elliot Sheiner* Photography By [Back Cover] – Don Hunstein, Sandy Speiser Photography By [Front Cover] – Fred Lombardi Piano – Teddy Wender Producer, Arranged By – Thomas Jefferson Kaye* Rhythm Guitar – Thomas Jefferson Kaye* Written-By – Loudon Wainwright III (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B6)

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. ONE INCH BOTTOM RIGHT SEAM SPLIT.  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.  

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