[Vintage-Audio] Heads Up About Nashville Brass Remastered CDS

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

A number of you wrote me to express an interest in getting copies of the 
Danny Davis And The Nashville Brass vinyl albums that I am remastering to 
CD.

Well, there is one vinyl album that has the Nashville Brass With Willie 
Nelson doing vocals. It is a nice album. However, I am 'not' going to 
remaster that album right now. There is just something out of sync when one 
is listening to the beautiful instrumental renderings of Danny Davis and 
friends and then a vocalist, "any" vocalist, is added to the mix. It is like 
having an incredibly beautiful fantasy mood suddenly blown all to 
disassociated atomic particles by your faithful loyal dog scenting the air 
with Hydrogen Sulfide!

Perhaps the analogy to old Rover is a bit overdone, but suffice it to say, 
the mix of Willie Nelson with the Nashville Brass just is the wrong 
chemistry. At least for me!

So I am going to remaster only the new vinyl albums of just the Nashville 
Brass. If any of you want the album with Willie Nelson doing vocals, let me 
know. I am going to remaster it, but I am not including it in the Nashville 
Brass remastered CDS unless you request me to do so.

While I am on the topic of "Remastered Vinyl To CD", if any of you would 
like a list of the vinyl albums that I have already remastered to CD using 
all stand alone equipment, no computers are used by DBF for music, please 
contact me. Almost all of the vinyl albums that I remaster are not available 
on commercial CDS. If they were, I would not do the work!

However, as I have mentioned before, much to my surprise, many commercial 
CDS do 'NOT' include all the songs off the vinyl album of the same name! For 
instance. The Floyd Cramer album; Collectors Series". The vinyl has 16 
songs, the commercial CD has 8! Al Hirt, his second RCA Nashville Studio B 
album entitled "Cotton Candy", is NOT the same album! The CD is an 
altogether different album! I know, I own it! So I remastered the original 
"Cotton Candy" to CD. I have all four of Al Hirt's Studio B albums now 
remastered.

Thanks to a dear friend of mine on this list, who's name I will not mention, 
I finally got a new copy of the third Al Hirt Nashville album "Sugar Lips". 
I have never been able to find that album anywhere. Since I played mine a 
lot, to put it conservatively, it showed some wear! I finally did remaster 
it, using every audio recording trick that I knew, and ended up with a 
decent CD version. However, when the still sealed copy arrived here about 
eighteen months ago, you know I wasted no time in remastering it!


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
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