STEVE EARLE – GUITAR TOWN – ORIGINAL 1986 MCA- STEREO LP MCA-5713 EX/NM

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 STEVE EARLE – GUITAR TOWN – ORIGINAL  1986 MCA- STEREO LP MCA-5713

    ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

      ORIGINAL “CLOUDS & RAINBOWS” MCA LABEL

      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

      ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (NO THICK CARDBOARD COVERS WERE EVER PRODUCED FOR THIS TITLE)

   CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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On Steve Earle's first major American tour following the release of his debut album, Guitar Town, Earle found himself sharing a bill with Dwight Yoakam one night and the Replacements another, and one listen to the album explains why -- while the music was country through and through, Earle showed off enough swagger and attitude to intimidate anyone short of Keith Richards. While Earle's songs bore a certain resemblance to the Texas outlaw ethos (think Waylon Jennings in "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" mode), they displayed a literate anger and street-smart snarl that set him apart from the typical Music Row hack, and no one in Nashville in 1986 was able (or willing) to write anything like the title song, a hilarious and harrowing tale of life on the road ("Well, I gotta keep rockin' while I still can/Got a two-pack habit and motel tan") or the bitterly unsentimental account of small-town life "Someday" ("You go to school, where you learn to read and write/So you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life"), the latter of which may be the best Bruce Springsteen song the Boss didn't write. And even when Earle gets a bit teary-eyed on "My Old Friend the Blues" and "Little Rock 'n' Roller," he showed off a battle-scarred heart that was tougher and harder-edged than most of his competition. Guitar Town is slightly flawed by an overly tidy production from Emory Gordy, Jr., and Tony Brown as well as a band that never hit quite as hard as Earle's voice, and he would make many stronger and more ambitious records in the future, but Guitar Town was his first shot at showing a major audience what he could do, and he hit a bull's-eye -- it's perhaps the strongest and most confident debut album any country act released in the 1980s.

 FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MARK DEMING, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM

  CONDITION:

RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

        WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  EXCELLENT Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

       COVER

THE COVER IS VG+ 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

          Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

Cover has a punch hole from factory (PROMO???)

        No split seams        No cut-out corners

       No saw-marks or indents

       No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

        No writing

        No stamps

        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

        No peel-off marks

        No stains

        No mold or mildew spots

        No stickers or labels

       No water damage

        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

        No warping

        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

     No glue traces or wax residue.

        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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