Not On CD: Jim Dawson: Songman (1971)

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Jim Dawson: Songman (1971)

Kama Sutra KSBS 2035

This was a thrift shop find (99¢) in good but not great shape. (Image from discogs)

I see that Jim Dawson just had a "70th Birthday Bash" concert at The Cutting Room in New York City, which is a nice music venue where I was fortunate to catch a David Lindley solo concert last year. Surprisingly, the room was only about third full. What to make of that?

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Once Was a Time I Thought / Now and Then

FrankenShure M111HE/N94e, Technics SL-7, Pro-Ject Phono Box S, harman/kardon CDR-2.

2 comments:

John P. EpsteinDecember 1, 2016 at 8:13 AM
Thanks for these song links. Haven't heard this album in years and I miss it. Hope you get around to posting more. Artist's web site says masters were lost or destroyed and this will never appear on CD, sadly.
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KurtDecember 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM
Thanks for your comment.

There have been CDs mastered from LPs in cases when the master tape is lost. That is possible here, and hopefully, it will happen some day.
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(Update: my digitization process was foiled by advancing technology; I mostly post work that others have digitized for YouTube. Older tracks should still be accessible per the following procedure) Click on any song title to go to a box.net page for that song. Our goal is to post only tracks that are not available on CD or as mp3s – songs that cannot be purchased anywhere. We hope to raise interest in these out-of-print LPs without taking away a single cent of revenue from those who profit from the sale of music. If you find any of these tracks available digitally, please contact us and they will be promptly removed.

If you enjoyed any of the music, please leave a comment. I hope that these sample tracks will inspire you to track down this out-of-print music.

All LPs are cleaned with a VPI 16.5 record cleaning machine, then converted to CD using a harman/kardon home audio CD recorder, which uses an AKM 24-bit/96 kHz analog-to-digital converter. No digital or electronic effects are used. (Prior to November 12, 2012, all LPs were cleaned with a Spin Clean Record Washer.)

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Turntables: Technics SL-7; Thorens TD-316.

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Preamplifiers: Hagerman Cornet3; Pro-Ject Phono Box S; NAD PP 2i, Rotel RA-931 integrated amplifier.