JONI MITCHELL, Song To A Seagull USA LP Night In The City/I Had King/Cactus Tree

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Joni Mitchell – Song To A Seagull Label: Reprise Records – 6293, Reprise Records – RS 6293 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Santa Maria Press Country: US Released: Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock Tracklist I Came To The City A1 I Had A King 2:26 A2 Michael From Mountains 3:38 A3 Night In The City 3:35 A4 Marcie 4:35 A5 Nathan La Franeer 3:13 Out Of The City And Down To The Seaside B1 Sisotowbell Lane 4:00 B2 The Dawnreader 4:50 B3 The Pirate Of Penance 2:40 B4 Song To A Seagull 3:50 B5 Cactus Tree 4:35 Companies, etc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Record Company – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc. Record Company – Warner Communications Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria Published By – Siquomb Music, Inc. Credits Art Direction – Ed Thrasher Bass – Stephen Stills Engineer – Art Cryst* Guitar [Banshee] – Lee Keefer Photography By [Cover] – Mark Roth Piano, Guitar, Vocals, Cover [Album Cover Art], Guitar [Banshee] – Joni Mitchell Producer – David Crosby  

USA VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

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

DISC: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, BUT 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, 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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