STEREO BOX SET NOV. 2012 AEMI 33809 • $349.00 (Price good until Dec. 31, 2012) 16 discs Sourced from the original master tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios Pressed on 180-gram vinyl; the Beatles’ studio albums North American LP debut in stereo Optimum audiophile-quality sound from a first-rate team of producers and engineers The BEATLES ON VINYL - DONE RIGHT! • All of the albums return to their ORIGINAL glory and details right down to the • Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album album poster in The Beatles/White Album and the Sgt. Pepper cutouts. Includes and Past Masters packaged in gatefold jackets. extras such as the pink, white and red inner sleeve that came with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the 24-page booklet that came with Magical Mystery Tour • The lineup: Please Please Me, With The Beatles, Hard Day’s Night, Beatles For and the poster and portrait cards that came with the White Album. 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All his records are clas- sics, but this one is truly unique — it’s the cream of two rare, acoustic albums cut in Denmark in 1963. Gentle, personal AAPB 036 / $30.00 blues with brilliant harmonica, accom- Mastered by Kevin Gray at panied by only Matt Guitar Murphy and Cohearent Audio Memphis Slim on piano. Original LP list- Deluxe gatefold ed on Stereophile’s Record 2 Die 4 list. tip-on jacket 200-gram vinyl pressing by COMING SOON TO SACD Quality Record Pressings CAPB 036 SA $30.00 TONY JOE WHITE FREDDIE KING HOMEMADE ICE CREAM GETTING READY... You may or may not Freddie King is easily know of Tony Joe one of the most influ- White, but we all know ential blues guitarists his two most famous of his or any genera- songs - “Polk Salad An- tion. Any blues enthusi- nie” and “Rainy Night ast or guitar aficionado In Georgia.” This record AAPP 2708 would have him ranked AAPB 8905 $25.00 is up to the standards high on their list of all- $25.00 of those great num- time greats. He was a bers. So soulful, hu- guitar hero before there was “Guitar Hero”. mid, rich and textured. Or as Tony Joe would say, “It’s swampy.” Getting Ready... was King’s first of three releases for Shelter Records, Leon Russell’s The last four songs on side two of this album Tulsa-based label. In fact, when Russell first are going to positively floor you. They are so formed Shelter, he reportedly did so partly sparse and bluesy and emotional. And the to play out his vision of recording one of his sound is as good as the music. With this favorites, Freddie King. new QRP pressing, the sound is so good it’s tape-like. So solid and jet-black is the foun- FREDDIE KING dation from which the music just jumps. Ya TEXAS CANNONBALL gotta hear it to understand what we’re trying to describe. It’s one of those jaw-hit-the- Released in 1972 as floor, sit-in-stunned-silence, goose-bump- AAPB 1483-45 the second of Freddie raising, tears-in-your-eyes records. You know, $50.00 King’s three releases (two 45-RPM LPs) the kind we’re all looking for as audiophiles? MUDDY WATERS for Shelter Records, Homeade Ice Cream was originally released FOLK SINGER Leon Russell’s Tulsa- based label. In fact, in 1973 on Warner Bros. and was co- Folk Singer has been an audiophile staple for years. It always produced by White and legendary Atlantic when Russell first AAPB 8913 formed Shelter, he re- producer Tom Dowd. It’s White’s sixth overall gets a bunch of play at hi-fi shows. It’s a no-doubter demonstra- $25.00 record and his third for Warner Bros. This is tion disc. But never before has it sounded like this! Never has portedly did so partly to play out his vision of recording one of his very much a back porch acoustic affair. The it been cut at 45 RPM! music has the space to breathe, one of the favorites, Freddie King.