Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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Been listening to my hi-fi, of course.  Just not listing the LPs here for a while.  Yesterday was a few nice ones.

Joni Mitchel, 'Blue'  Reprise Records reissue.  Nicely done!
The Beach Boys, 'Surf's Up'  Analog Productions and QRP pressing.  Excellent SQ!
Stanley Clarke, 'School Days'  Friday Music reissue, RTI pressing.  I have an original pressing of this album and while the SQ is great the vinyl quality had a lot of noise.  It's a favorite of mine, so, I pre-ordered the reissue and it finally arrived.  The vinyl is excellent and SQ is really, really good.  I think the mastering found some fine details that I had never heard before on my original pressing.  But, I also found that in the mastering they cut off some of the lowest frequencies in a few musical areas that are present on my original.  Too bad for that.  Otherwise, the SQ is superb and very revealing of the finest in detail with perfect placement (not too far forward, not far back, just right!).  If you are a Stanley Clark fan this is a very worthy add to your collection.
Got these in this week.....

The Blues Project "Reunion in Central Park"  pp/1973/dbl lp
Khruangbin  "Late Night Tales"
Red House Painters  "Old Ramon"

in the "can't believe I didn't own these already" column...

Calexico  "Garden Ruin"
Iron & Wine  "The Creek Drank the Cradle"

@spiritofradio: I don’t know if you got this pressing of the Albert King Elvis album, but there is one offered by reissue company Vinyl Me Please that is reportedly great. I just ordered my copy a coupla days ago from a seller on Discogs.

@mammothguy54: For another great Analogue Productions Beach Boys reissue, consider the Sunflower album. I can’t tell you what a breathe of fresh air it was when it came out in August of 1970. A welcome reprieve from all the Metal, Blues/Rock, and Progressive/Rock sludge that was big at the time. Listen to the insanely great chord progression Brian Wilson incorporates into "This Whole World". As good as some Classical compositions! If I remember correctly, he was listening to a lot of J.S. Bach at the time. As in some Bach works, the chords in "TWW" are just flying by, in some parts four per bar!