Here's one we missed. By far the best of their 3 (I consider this one essential) to the best of my knowledge the only cd version ever issued is the out of print & mediocre sounding edition on the German Line label.

This one's on BGO & should be good quality. As per lately, us Americans are getting SCREWED on the exchange rate but......

[bigred]Matthews Southern Comfort: Later That Same Year[/bigred]



2008 digitally remastered reissue of the third and final album Matthews Southern Comfort, originally released in 1970. Ian Matthews then pursued a long and successful solo career while Southern Comfort (the name the band continued with after Matthews left) produced two albums before folding. 15 tracks. BGO.

Later That Same Year:
To Love
And Me
Tell Me Why
Jonah
My Lady
And When She Smiles
Mare Take Me Home
Sylvie
Brand New Tennessee Waltz
For Melanie
Road To Ronderlin

Bonus Tracks:
Woodstock
The Struggle
Parting
Scion

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00175G6RS/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00175G6RS/?tag=imwan-21

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All new and future Beat Goes On releases at Amazon USA

All new and future Beat Goes On releases at Amazon UK

I have the Line Records CD, and it doesn't sound bad, but I'll be getting this. Four bonus tracks AND remastered. I agree that this is the best of the three MSC albums; I've loved this album since the early 70's. I also have a ton of his solo albums, and have seen him live several times in Austin TX.

Not in stock at Amazon.

Not releasing until 6/2/08.

The Matthews album ended up being released a week later in the UK, on June 9th. (It's been rescheduled for July 8th as an import at Amazon USA.) Here's the other BGO label reissue released the same day ...

[bigred]Roy Buchanan: That's What I Am Here For/Rescue Me[/bigred]



2008 digitally remastered two-fer from the late Blues guitarist containing a pair of his albums on one CD. [title]That's What I Am Here For[/title] was originally released in 1974, followed one year later by [title]Rescue Me[/title], his final album for Polydor. Comes housed in a slipcase and features new liner notes. BGO.

Disc: 1
1. My Baby Says She's Gonna Leave Me
2. Hey Joe
3. Home Is Where I Lost Her
4. Rodney's Song
5. That's What I Am Here For
6. Roy's Bluz
7. Voices
8. Please Don't Turn Me Away
9. Nephesh

Disc: 2
1. I'm A Ram
2. In The Beginning
3. C.C. Rider
4. Country Preacher
5. You're Killing My Love
6. She Can't Say No
7. Wayfaring Pilgrim

Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00175G6R8/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00175G6R8/?tag=imwan-21

Thanks for the bump. I'd forgotten about this one (MSC) & I want it.

Be warned: I got the MSC "remaster" yesterday. They used a dreadful master tape. Several songs have significant tape drop out, & in general the sound quality muffled, almost like they used a cassette as a master. This is the first time I've ever said this, but the out of print Line (Germany) cd sounds much better.

Iain stated in his Yahoo group that he had nothing to do with this reissue.

I've had the remaster for a couple of months; I did have to boost the high frequencies on my stereo to get the sound right (nothing unusual there; I do a lot of EQ tweaking on CD's), but I sure didn't notice any dropouts. I haven't listened to the whole album yet; can you tell me where these dropouts are? I'm keeping my original Line CD anyway; I learned my lesson selling original issue CD's long ago.

4 or 5 tracks have them. Mare Take Me Home sticks in my mind as one of them.

I listened to "Mare" and several other tracks last night carefully, and heard no dropouts (I didn't use headphones, which might reveal dropout problems better than speakers). As I mentioned before, I had to boost high frequencies quite a bit (and a bit of bass) to get it to sound right. The only glitch I found was at the very end of "My Lady", and the same glitch is on the Line version. Not a dropout, but the kind of glitch you get when there's something sticky on the reel-to-reel tape (been working in studios since the 70's, so I'm used to that problem on old reel tapes). Try EQ'ing and see if it helps; otherwise, it could be a quality control problem with BGO from one CD copy to the next.

Weird. The drop outs are not subtle. It's definitely in the mastering on my cd.

How about checking the timing readout, and let me know exactly where some of the dropouts are? I was listening late at night, so I couldn't turn the volume up very loud because of the neighbors....