Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of James Taylor Available Now
This Shootout Winning copy from 2008 or thereabouts showed us a Mud Slide Slim we had no idea could exist.
We have a name for records like this. We call them breakthrough pressings. They are one of the reasons we play so many thousands of records every year. We’re looking for records that sound as good as this one does, even for titles that no one thinks are particularly well recorded.
Especially for those titles. Experience has taught us they can only be found by playing lots of pressings and looking for whatever needles might be hiding in the haystacks. (The haystack for One Man Dog can be seen at the bottom of this post.)
As you will see from our commentary, the first track on side one, Love Has Brought Me Around, is a great test for energy.
If your copy does not seem very energetic to you, then we recommend you keep buying every green label original you see until you find one that does.
Our commentary from the early days of shootouts can be seen below.