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Carey Bell & Tough Luck - Mellow Down Easy [Blind Pig Records 180g LP] 24-bit/96kHz & CD-format

Posted By : aksman | Date : 14 Aug 2011 07:20:16 | Comments : 8 |
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Carey Bell & Tough Luck - Mellow Down Easy
Blind Pig Records 180g LP / Cat.#: BPLP 4291
Mastered by Roger Seibel @ SAE Mastering, Phoenix, AZ

Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192kHz (presented in 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Tech Log
Artwork | DR Analysis | 837 / 235 mb incl. recovery | FSonic, FF & HF | Blues | 1991

The harpist hooked up with a young Maryland-based band called Tough Luck for this LP, certainly one of his better outings. The traditional mindset of the combo pushed Bell back to his roots, whether on the originals "Just like You" and the Horton homage "Big Walter Strut" or revivals of Muddy Waters' "Short Dress Woman" and "Walking Thru the Park" and the classic Little Walter title cut.
- Bill Dahl/AMG (4/5 Stars)


Carey Bell was one of the best harmonica players the vibrant 50's and 60's Chicago blues scene ever produced. Blind Pig is proud to add his finest recording, "Mellow Down Easy," to its "Vinyl Masters Series." Carey first arrived in Chicago in 1956 as a member of his stepfather Lovey Lee's band, and his collaborators are a veritable who's who of the blues, featuring Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Eddie Taylor, and Lowell Fulsom For this special, limited edition LP release, "Mellow Down Easy" was remastered and pressed on HQ-180 gram vinyl at RTI.

"Harmonica master Carey Bell serves up deep, unadulterated blues in the style of his now-departed mentors Big Walter Horton, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter Jacobs. There's no doubt about his ability to convey that downhome blues feeling, evoking images of the classic, dimly-lit, smoky clubs of Chicago lore."
- Request




Track listing
    Side A
    1. Short Dress Woman 3:15
    2. Delta Time 3:34
    3. Five Long Years 3:47
    4. Mellow Down Easy 2:58
    5. Just Like You 4:14
    6. Walkin’ Thru The Park 2:42

    Side B

    1. That Spot Right There 3:35
    2. Big Walter Strut 3:19
    3. One Day 3:12
    4. So Easy To Love You 5:28
    5. Walkin’ By Myself 3:08

Personnel
    Carey Bell (vocals, harmonica
    Steve Jacobs (guitar)
    Lips Lackowitz (harmonica)
    Kevin McKendree (organ)
    Brian McGregor (acoustic & electric bass)
    Buddy Grandell (drums)

    Producers: Steve Jacobs, Jerry Del Giudice, Mark Hurwitz
    Recorded at Wizard Works, Beltsville, Maryland

    Includes liner notes by Geoffrey Himes.

Dynamic Range Analysis

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Analyzed: Carey Bell & Tough Luck / Mellow Down Easy [Blind Pig Records 180g LP]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -1.80 dB -17.44 dB 3:14 01-Short Dress Woman
DR14 -1.52 dB -18.61 dB 3:33 02-Delta Time
DR13 -2.36 dB -18.30 dB 3:45 03-Five Long Years
DR13 -2.50 dB -19.66 dB 2:57 04-Mellow Down Easy
DR12 -1.94 dB -17.35 dB 4:13 05-Just Like You
DR13 -1.92 dB -16.89 dB 2:39 06-Walkin' Thru The Park
DR13 -2.03 dB -18.35 dB 3:34 07-That Spot Right There
DR13 -1.26 dB -16.75 dB 3:18 08-Big Walter Stru
DR14 -1.35 dB -17.84 dB 3:11 09-One Day
DR15 -1.96 dB -20.37 dB 5:26 10-So Easy To Love You
DR13 -2.08 dB -18.85 dB 3:09 11-Walkin' By Myself
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Number of tracks: 11
Maximum peak difference (-1.26 dB - -2.50 dB): 1.24 dB

Official DR value (Song Mode): DR13
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Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
WaveLab 6 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 2.00 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resampling and dithering with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.


Personal Note

With my vinyl transfers, I try to catch the whole beauty of vinyl records; therefore I don't use any post-processing or any sound improvement. What you get is a clear and flat transfer. For getting a clear sound, I'll do an extended washing of each record with my RCM, which can take up to 30 minutes brushing on each side. Resistant ticks and clicks I try to remove as good as possible, but the priority is not to lose any musical information in the process. Surface noises, as long they are not too high, are left in place. Only on bad pressings or on records recorded at extremely low levels do I use a fade in-/-out. As John Peel said, "Life is full of surface noises." In some cases this means that I have to make a compromise.... The result has to pass my personal quality criteria, which is IMO quite high.



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Posted By: jazzever Date: 14 Aug 2011 10:06:54
Great job aksman,thank you:))
Posted By: hzrfnpgss Date: 14 Aug 2011 11:06:04
thanks aksman !!! more blues please :D
Posted By: Ear Relevant Date: 14 Aug 2011 13:03:03
AxeMan' got 'da blooz 'dis weekend. He 'done crying in my beer 3 times in a row. Keep 'dem tears a comin'!

(BTW, the previous Muddy Waters rip sounded more than good enough for me.)

Cheers
Posted By: Narayan23 Date: 14 Aug 2011 13:23:37
Thanks for this superb music!
Posted By: FruitPoodle Date: 14 Aug 2011 21:21:13
This blues series is outstanding, many thanks.
Posted By: jpics Date: 15 Aug 2011 15:16:14
Thanks aksman
Posted By: bluzer Date: 18 Aug 2011 19:57:30
thank you kindly
Posted By: OdioAlImperio Date: 20 Oct 2011 18:52:35
Wonderful sharing aksman! - Kindly OAI!
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