As far as I'm concerned, Traffic never made a better album than "John Barleycorn Must Die" but it was never given "the treatment" by mfsl or dcc. How come? All the rest of Steve Windwoods output made it to mfsl gold disc for the most part.
As good as JBMD might be artistically or sonically, it was simply not popular enough to make the MFSL "list" - they can't make money on something they can't sell many of. Plain and simple.
jbmd was the second largest seller by traffic next to 'low spark'. mfsl was and still is at the mercy of the content owners, who for the most part have equalled or surpassed mfsl's technology(and make more money selling it themselves in a remastered version). the original mfsl going belly up doesn't help in current licensing efforts either.
FYI, I just saw on my latest edition of Elusive Disc's catalog that JBMD is offered new on 180 g vinyl (UK Universal EUROU2780) for $29.99. Might be the next best thing to an MFSL vinyl version at least.
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