The Wizard was to see if my German Import is good enough to keep. It is. Taproot I played the whole thing. ND was ahead of his time in going to Africa, and of course Done Too Soon is a one of a kind. [Edit: There've always been a few names there I didn't know. I just looked them up. This song is even more impressive now than ever.]
City to City, there was a time you couldn’t open your window at WSU without hearing that Baker Street sax coming from some dorm somewhere.
YBR was a shootout between two copies. One turned out to be quite a bit quieter, more detailed and 3D than the other. Amazing since I started doing this almost every time one turns out to be much better than another. Sometimes dramatically so! If a record doesn’t sound good I no longer blame the recording, I blame the pressing!
Year of the Cat by now its late and I always go to the really good stuff, but I just can’t quit the 70’s. Some of it like Silk Degrees just sounds so dated. But On the Border, you just want to keep playing it over and over....
New Favorite, what a mix of styles, all superbly recorded, ending with the sublime title track. What can you do? Wash down the last of the Makers Mark and call it a night.
