This batch was interesting because it's been a while since I had a handful of albums that just didn't hit me. I suspect it may have been my mood but that can just happen
202 - Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker - Hooker ’N Heat
I had heard about this one for a while and I think it just may not be my kind of music, never really hit the jive/groove I wanted out of it depite all the talent involved.
203 - Takin My Time - Bonnie Raitt
I'm sure glad she started to take more agency for her music later on, a decent enough mix other people's music
204 - Emmylou Harris - Profile
GH Emmylou is hard to go wrong with
205 - Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - What Is Free To A Good Home
This was an Amazon Warehouse flyer that came in good shape but musically I do get why other songs made her main album (which I loved)
206 - Jimmy Buffett - Son of a Son of a Sailor
207 -2001 A Space Odyssey
Two very different genre faves but both still enjoyable in their own zones
Update: This is the Zia exclusive. When I got to Billy Liar my ears thought something was off. So I plopped on my original pressing and holy drowning in mud. The Zia pressing is dull and flat. Vocals and instruments are mud. So that got me thinking about the reissues from BullMoose. Same f’ing thing.
*Edit* It wasn’t the BM pressing that I compared it to. It was the pressing from Kill Rock Stars.
This is an album I know very well. Without an a-b listen, my thoughts are… the drums are crisper than my og CD. It sounds better than the 20th anniversary digital.
I cannot compare to the BG.
My copy has a fairly large pry warp which is good because the clamp can fix a long one as opposed to a short edge warp.
It’s quiet. Music is dynamic and well imaged, balanced much like the original master with Kurt up front. No audio defects on my copy. I suspect I would like Bernie’s better just because Bernie and KG are my dudes.