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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:42:09 GMT, (Nousaine) wrote:

Nobody wrote:

Hey there have always been bad recordings on the market. In the 60s my playback
equipment was probably not worthy of great recordings but in retrospect the
records I owned back then just weren't all that great-sounding performance
not-with-standing.

Today playback equipment more readily exposes recordings for what they are. But
we've gotten used to the new playback equipment and we demand that all new
recordings measure up.

As enthusiasts we think that every record we buy ought to be great. But that
never happens in any other line of endeavor. You don't always get great
hamburgers, wonderful steaks, perfect pasta, 40 mpg, 0-60 in 3 seconds, etc.

IMO there are MORE great recordings available than ever before in MORE formats.
But, as enthusiasts we seldom applaud the great ones as often as we decry the
bad ones.

So let me appluad a good one. A texas blues/R&B/Gospel artist Ruther Foster
"Runaway Soul" on BlueCorn Music. Foster has a stupendous voice, plays pretty
good hollow body guitar and just sounds/plays/writes great music. I've seen her
live and on Austin City Limits and cannot recommend her and this recording
highly enough.

Live, she sounds almost exactly like the record. I can't wait to see her again.
Writes a good deal of her own material. Excellent stage presence and audience
patter. Small time but exquisitely professional.

There were great recordings way back when. Like most you probably were
stuck buying store vinyl.
Much depends on the quality of your equipment and the setup/tweek of
it as well.

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