It's a re-issue of LP material instead of deluxe treatment, issued by a label which has somebody who may or may not brickwall it, and ties up the rights to both titles until it sells out. I know Thor and a handful of other people are plumb happy about short issues, but not the rest of us.
The La-La Land version would have of course been STELLAR and the end all of Smokey releases, that's a given. They do insanely great work constantly! Happy to have owned almost all their releases.
Varese is doing it now. Also, this is a Cary Mansfield release at Varese. He has ZERO history of brickwalling any release that he's produced himself. He uses Chas Ferry for almost all his releases and he's a top notch mastering engineer. There are zero releases by Chas Ferry where brickwalling is apparent.
Definitely over the moon about this one, Peter. It's a grail for me and the straight release of the album contents only is fine by me.
Such a letdown. That LLL campaign would really have been fun.
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Some people are never satisfied...
Cindy, if you'd read the order in which I posted, that "letdown" comment was when it looked like LLL couldn't get the rights but that no one else was going to be releasing it, either. If you look further on (eastbound and) down the page, you'll see my elation when Peter announced that Varese is now releasing it. Definitely excited!
Never mind. Forget it, and let's just wait for the release together.
Never mind. Forget it, and let's just wait for the release together.
Indeed, let's. Been waiting for this one a long time. Album presentation, in this case, is just fine by me! (Love the Pinky Pie meme. My daughter would approve!)
I play Eastbound and Down when I pick someone up at LAX. I'd love to play Westbound and Down when driving someone to LAX to catch a plane, but I don't think that song was ever released. Oh well. At least LaLa tried.
East/West/Bound & Down are on numerous Jerry Reed albums I have them, I also have the soundtrack promo of S&TB 1-2 on 1 disc, a 1000 copies, I picked it up years ago at a film fair, it sounds fantastic no hissing.
Here's one on Ebay. 332374337813
Well done too Varese for putting this out, but i'll pass on this release.
