JOHNNY CASH AND BOB DYLAN: Songs from the real America
The Swingin' Pig TSP 0860-3 (1969)
Galemark remaster
Info...
I am not labeling this as a "drop" but rather as a "remaster" due to the various steps I took in preparing this audio. Before I even began the undertaking of doing this drop (it was a request done with gifted vinyl), I sought out the material at several popular torrent sites. I can say without doubt that this vinyl boot sounded significantly better than any of the downloads I had come across, so I proceeded. It appears that this vinyl was sourced from DAT recorded at 32k. I say this because of the sharp plateau at 16k seen in spectral view. It also appears that this copy is close to the master due to the relative absense of noise above 16k. My ears tell me that the other files "out there" had probably seen several generations of analog copying.
So I began the transfer. The first thirteen tracks wen along without issue. All taht was needed for these tracks were (literally) hundreds of drop-out repairs, minimised to the best of my ability. Track fourteen, a live track which the bootlegger inexplicably inserted into this set, was so hot on the vinyl that it was clipping the sound card. So, it obviously needed to be re-recorded at lower levels. Plus, it was painfully shrill, so I did some EQ matching (though IMHO not enough, but I wanted to err on the side of caution) to make it "play nice" with the other tracks on the album. The last track is also a studio track, but it is obviously from another source. It was also too loud and needed assistane with the curve. All of this is why I label this drop as a "remaster". If any purists out there don't want it for those reasons, that is fine with me, but I did want to disclose the work (mostly because I am proud of what I accomplished here).
I encourage you to dig into, as Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan once described roots music, “songs from the real America.” It’s not the soundtrack of NASCAR fans, nor is it the “cool country” of Ryan Adams or the solo albums of Jenny Lewis. True roots music survives today in tiny sub-genres with strong regional followings around the lives shows, with names like “Canadian-prairie folk” and “the redneck underground.” But wherever real roots music is found, it’s breathing new life into the stories of a nation originally built on the backs of laborers and farmers. - Seth "Tower" Hurd
Tracks...
Side 1
1. Mountain Dew
2. I Still Miss Someone
3. Careless Love
4. Matchbox
5. That's Alright Mama
6. Big River
7. Girl From The North Country
Side 2
8. I Walk The Line
9. You Are My Sunshine
10. Ring Of Fire
11. Guess Things Happen That Way
12. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
13. T For Texas
14. Living The Blues
15. One Too Many Mornings
Lineage...
Turntable - A vintage VIP Boyscout circa 1966 recently upgraded with a custom plinth hand made of Nubian Dragon wood illegally harvested from Djibouti at great personal risk but used for it's exceptionally nubian tonal response.
Tonearm - SMEK series 1984 modded with X-1R Crawler Track Lubricant from the Space Shuttle to give an out of this world character.
Cartridge - Koetsuzuki Ivory Platinum, a very limited production run of fifty three units, each one hand carved from a white key removed from the Blüthner Grand Piano that was used by The Beatles during the "Let it Be" sessions. The resulting musicality and magical aura is thought to be obvious to all.
Phono stage - Womanley Labs Marlin all tube stage with Russian Svetlanovski tubes that have had a few hundred months burn in time as used in the system of Sergei Rachmaninov as he listened to RCA Victor Program Transcription pressings of Beethoven symphonies for inspiration.
A/D converter - Apologee Schmenke 192 converter with firewire and vintage ESDI interfaces.
Cables - Galemark exclusively uses and endorses Lardas cables. They give him his signature fat sound. (Actually, Galemark would like you to know that he never uses any product as pedestrian as Lardas, but since they are paying him big bucks for the endorsement deal, that is what he is telling people.)
Software - Audacious for Vistakon OS with proprietary dither program written for me by Peter Gotcher because we're boys.
Cleaning - VIP Monsoon machine with a top secret fluid. This special enzymatic fluid is made with several proprietary agents, including pure bile removed from Steve Hoffman's gall bladder during his recent back surgery. The Hoffman magic shines through on every one of my drops.
Ugh...okay...I made all of that up...here is the actual "mid-fi" system that was used...
JVC QL-A7 direct drive turntable (with mods).
Audio-Technica AT440MLa Cartridge.
Marantz Model 2230 Receiver (Phono Pre).
Vinyl meticulously hand cleaned.
E-Mu 1212m soundcard capturing at 32 bit float, 192 khz.
Lightly polished with ClickRepair (unless completely manually declicked - see description)
Stray pops missed by CR manually removed with Audition single click tool (never batch processed).
Resampled and dithered with iZotope RX.
No other signal processing is used (unless noted in the description).
Another quality GALEMARK needledrop
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