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Bob Dylan's Love and Theft is a visionary train ride through the vast American landscape and all it's hills, valleys, mountains, river towns, and urban and rural settlements. As they burrow into villages and barrel across trestle bridges, the 2001 record's songs introduce us to outlaws, outliers, gamblers, brawlers, tricksters, bootleggers, and scoundrels. It is, in effect, a commanding survey of and plunge into American music by way of blues, swing, folk, vaudeville, Tin Pin Alley, country, rockabilly, and more. Named the best album of the year by Rolling Stone and the Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, it serves as an extension of the jesting, imagery, and free-form looseness present on his seminal 1960s works. 'Things should start to get interesting right about now,' Dylan sings in his trademark rasp on 'Mississippi,' the line doubling as an apt metaphor for every second of Love and Theft-one of the greatest records of our time. Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set reveals the you-are-there immediacy of Dylan's production and the colorful textures inherent to every passage. Experienced on this audiophile version, the songs possess a sense of swing and naturalism so sure-footed that they seem to float, with Dylan and his crack ensemble setting up as a live band taking down the house in a deep-in-the-woods Louisiana shotgun shack. Prized aural traits such as presence, imaging, separation, and soundstaging depth don't come better in analog. This is the very definition of sonic chemistry-and a masterwork for which you should settle for nothing less.

Strictly Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies! 180g 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity! Mastered From The Original Mono Master Tapes & Pressed at RTI! Mobile Fidelity Analog Set Presents the Music in True-to-the-Original Mono. Originally released in 1964 on Columbia, produced by fellow Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Don Law, and featuring note-for-note re-recordings of several staples Johnny Cash made for Sun Records - including the title track, "Hey Porter" and "Big River" - as well as several new originals, I Walk The Line cemented the singer's place as the leading country artist of the era. Indeed, as the original liner notes state, "I Walk The Line offers Johnny Cash, renowned storyteller-in-song, at his creative and performing best." Now, for the first time in more than five decades, you can experience it in true-to-the-source mono courtesy of Mobile Fidelity's meticulously restored reissue. Mastered from the original mono master tapes, pressed at RTI, and strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, the audiophile label's 180g 45RPM 2LP set broadcasts the inimitable sonics of the Man in Black's cut-from-bedrock baritone, earnest acoustic strumming, and hand-in-glove band with utmost clarity, directness, and realism. Much has been rightly made about the sparse, deceivingly simple boom-chicka-boom sound of Cash's righthand men, otherwise known as the Tennessee Three: bassist Marshall Grant, guitarist Luther Perkins, and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland. On this collectible edition of I Walk The Line, the trio's steady, fundamental rhythms and fresh, driving beats resonate with a presence, solidity, and immediacy unavailable on any other Cash recording. Such are the advantages associated with going back to mono, which gets right to the core of the rough-and-tumble country tenor of songs such as "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk The Line". There's a profound release of more textures, embedded details, and lively cohesiveness, with the group enmeshed with rather than separated from Cash's vocals. Key instrumental and vocal contributions from the likes of the Carter Family, steel guitarist Don Helms, pianist Floyd Cramer, and trumpeters Bill McElhiney and Karl Garvin (the same duo who played the signature Mexican-inspired brass refrain on "Ring Of Fire") also come to the fore, no longer buried or artificially panned in the false stereo mix. Mobile Fidelity's I Walk The Line epitomizes the classic Cash sound and approach, through and through. As for the music, it remains infallible. While the Sun material may be redone, the inspired performances equal those of the originals and, in some cases, like the fresh arrangement of "Wreck Of The Old 97", improve upon them. And that says nothing of the new songs, most notably, the now-legendary "Understand Your Man", a humorous takedown that thematically and melodically references soon-to-be Cash collaborator Bob Dylan and his "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". The tune hit Number One on the Billboard Country charts and stayed there for six weeks. Coupled with other new fare (e.g., the sly "Bad News" and gospel-bent closer "Troublesome Waters") and his ensemble's chemistry and in-the-moment enthusiasm, a byproduct of the momentum that witnessed the singer/guitarist and company attain crossover fame, and the reprised music helps make I Walk The Line a benchmark Columbia set - and a Cash milestone.

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Artist: DIRE STRAITS Label: Mobile Fidelity