BILL WITHERS, Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall USA 1st pressing 2LP

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  Bill Withers ?– Bill Withers Live At Carnegie Hall Label: Sussex ?– SXBS 7025-2 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo  Country: US Released: 1973 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul, Funk TracklistHide Credits A1 Use Me 8:30 A2 Friend Of Mine 4:26 A3 Ain't No Sunshine 2:25 A4 Grandma's Hands (With Rap) 5:08 B1 World Keeps Going Around 5:08 B2 Let Me In Your Life (With Rap) 4:35 B3 Better Off Dead 3:36 B4 For My Friend 2:58 C1 I Can't Write Left Handed Written-By – Bill Withers, Ray Jackson 6:52 C2 Lean On Me 5:47 C3 Lonely Town Lonely Street 3:54 C4 Hope She'll Be Happier 4:23 D1 Let Us Love 5:21 D2 Harlem/Cold Baloney 13:07 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sussex Records, Inc. Copyright (c) – Sussex Records, Inc. Distributed By – Buddah Records Remixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles Recorded At – Carnegie Hall Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C. Credits Arranged By [Horns, Strings], Co-producer, Piano – Ray Jackson Arranged By [Horns], Liner Notes, Producer, Written-By – Bill Withers Artwork [Back Cover Illustration] – Barron Storey Bass, Co-producer – Melvin Dunlap Co-producer, Drums – James Gadson Co-producer, Guitar – Bernorce Blackman* Creative Director – Milton Sincoff Design [Album] – Maurer Productions, Michael Mendel Engineer [Assistant] – Gary Ladinsky Engineer [Remix, Recording] – Phil Schier Percussion – Bobbye Hall Photography By [Front Cover] – Howard L. Bingham* Photography By [Inside] – Bob Gruen, Joe Harris (12)  

USA FIRST PRESSING DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVES.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD ONLY WITH BOTTOM SEAMS PLITS, SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  CORNER DRILL HOLE.  INNER SLEEVES HAVE SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT PLAY SCUFFS. 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.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

     
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