Shirley Griffith, SATURDAY BLUES, Prestige Bluesville 1087, NM

$

230

Prestige Bluesville 1087, “Saturday Blues” with Shirley Griffith, vocals and guitar; from 1964. Original-label vinyl plays at VG++ to NM with very slight background sound. The vinyl is medium weight with no DG and shows no marks but has one small pressing bubble that does not appear to affect sound. The non-laminated standard jacket is in the original shrink wrap. Seams are strong all around except for the lower left corner, where there is 1 inch (2 cm) of splitting and a corner of paper loss on the back (see scan). Corners are square; there is a hint of ringwear; jacket back is very clean. Songs are “Meet Me in the Bottom”, “River Line Blues”, “Shirley’s Jump”, “Take Me Back to Mama”, “Saturday Blues”, “Left Alone Blues”, “Big Road Blues”, “Bye Bye Blues”, “Hard Pill to Swallow”, “Maggie Campbell Blues”, and “My Baby’s Gone”. This is one of a set of original Bluesville LPs from several collections brought together for sale this week on eBay. Most are original DG copies in remarkable condition, and many are in the original shrink wrap. Shipping is $4.00 media mail, $8.00 priority mail within the continental U.S.; $18.00 regular airmail to the U.K., Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Additional LPs in a single package are $1.00 additional within U.S. and Canada, $2.00 elsewhere. For overseas shipments, registered mail is strongly recommended at $11.75 extra per package. Many old records are practically antiques and should be treated that way. This LP will be packaged with the record inside an inner sleeve but outside the jacket; both are placed inside a sealed outer sleeve and shipped inside a special oversized handcrafted mailer with padding on all sides. It is designed thick enough not to be bent in transit and strong enough to withstand a drop from a second-story window. More than two LPs together may be mailed inside a heavy Bags Unlimited pizza-style box. Your LP should arrive in the same condition as on the day it was shipped. All used LPs are play-graded on a VPI turntable with Audioquest tonearm and Grado cartridge.