Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest - Vinyl LP

Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 81/100! First Time Ever On Vinyl LP. Mastered Direct From The Original Tapes. Plated & Pressed at Quality Record Pressings. TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal 2018 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For. Analog Planet Rated 10/11 Music, 10/11 Sound. Gillian Welch’s long-awaited first record pressing. This long awaited first pressing of Gillian Welch's The Harrow & The Harvest was mastered direct from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. It is also the first vinyl record to come out on Acony Records. "We have been working and waiting 20 years to bring you our music on phonograph record. It took a while, because we wanted to do it the right way, the absolute best way humanly possible, and I believe that’s what we’ve done. No sonic stone was left unturned, no nuance let fall by the wayside. There is honestly nothing else I can imagine hoping to hear out of the original tapes. It is all there in the groove. As people whose lives were changed by the sound of music coming off turntables, we humbly invite you to include us in your record collection." – Gillian Welch GRAMMY nominated for Best Engineered Album (Non Classical) and Best Folk Album, this deluxe package includes new full-color cover art by John Dyer Baizley, a gatefold old-style tip-on jacket printed on special paper, a printed sleeve, and full lyric insert (included with the album for the first time). "The Harrow & the Harvest is stunning for its intimacy, its lack of studio artifice, its warmth and its timeless, if hard won, songcraft. Its only equal in her catalog is Time (The Revelator), making it well worth the long wait. [Note: the provocative cover art by Baroness guitarist and vocalist John Dyer Baizley is peerlessly brilliant.]" - Thom Jurek, allmusic.com