The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73286   Message #1271642
Posted By: GLoux
13-Sep-04 - 10:23 PM
Thread Name: Grayson & Whitter
Subject: RE: Grayson & Whitter
The "Guest" above was the un-cookified me...sorry if I annoyed anyone (read: Jerry) with that post...I was honestly concerned if I now had some other complaint with Document...hence my raising the concern of "Banks of the Ohio" being on the County release, when I had the "Complete Recorded Works" from Document.

I agree completely with Jerry's, shall I say, "lack of enthusiasm" for the sound quality of CDs put out by Document. On the other hand, I could not resist getting access to the other un-issued recordings/test pressings of Grayson & Whitter's recordings. Perhaps some enterprising individual (not in the US) could take each of the Document releases and apply noise reduction techniques/software and reissue them on a "Better Than Document" label...

I am one of Dave Freeman's/County Records/Sales biggest fans...Jerry's is more than just a personal preference, IMHO, it is a prevailing consensus. I think that Kerry Blech has complained about Document's lack of concern about applying readily available noise-reduction technology to the treasure trove of recordings Document is putting out in just about every review of a Document recording he's done for the Old Time Herald, and I think he may have authored just about every review of a Document CD published by that magazine...to the point of sounding like a broken record...(pun intended)

By the way, On The Banks Of Old Tennessee is a great song...Dave Howard (Connecticut) does a great version of it...

-Greg