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Charles ...

Belafonte really isn't much of a blues singer, but that album sure is demo quality. Belafonte should have stuck with the calypso stuff.  To me, he sounds like Bobby Short trying to sing Led Zeppelin songs. Hard to pull that off.  :-)

I've been fortunate in acquiring a nice collection of Cisco reissues, and Impex reissues as well. The care that goes into the remastering of these tapes is superb. You won't find any artificial digital re-verb here at all. Just very natural sounding recordings done in state of the art style.

Cisco is no longer in business, but it continues on as Impex.   Some really good ones are the June Christy, Julie London, Monk, Miles and all of their classical reissues. 

Impex will be at the Newport Show in the record booths.

OP

Frank, 
Fair enough,  Belafonte isn't a blues singer. In this instance though it comes off good overall and is an enjoyable listen. It is helped along by the  accompanying musicians and the sound quality. 
Charles, 

^^^   Agreed, Charles. I thoroughly enjoy the Belafonte album. In Impex's 45 rpm reissue the sound quality is exemplary and very much alive.  

For your pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48aQbh1lV1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNZm9KXm8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqEOboRctY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRp_avXtMM

And here's the tap root of the blues and jazz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE

Just as a public service just noticed a Yamamoto YDA-1 pop up in the classifieds........
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-yamamoto-soundcraft-yda-01-dac-2016-05-30-digital-18...

No affiliation just a very happy owner of the same Dac as is Charles and I know they come up very rarely so thought someone might appreciate a heads up. Happy Memorial Day all!

oregonpapa:
Here is my cell phone - five- seven-five-six-four-four-one- four- six- two.

Those You Tube posts were great.  I would listen to Lightning Hopkins play live on AM radio on the Jim Lowe Blues Show late at night. Alligator clip from the window metal screen to the antenna of my (4 transistors)  radio and the music going to my single ear plug. No air conditioning in my parent's house (Dallas, Texas) in the 50's and early 60's. You could hear the sweat in Lightning's voice and I could feel the sweat lying in bed with my head pressed against the window screen hoping for a little bit of cool air.

I still love the old blues from the 30's to the 60's.

A hundred hours now on the 300b amp that I have nicknamed Cutie Pie. It is small in size and light weight - 25 lbs. But with it's very good circuit design, high quality part utilization, new Psvane 300 WE output tubes, and Synergistic Research fuse it is really driving my horn system with emotion .

The amp is based on a design by Shannon Parks' Get Set Go circuit and was built by Greg Johnson.

David Pritchard