Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard - Poncho & Lefty
Жанр: Country / Bluegrass
Год выпуска: 1982
Лейбл: Epic (37958)
Страна-производитель: US
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: tracks
Формат записи: 24 bit / 96 khz
Формат раздачи: 24 bit / 96 khz
Продолжительность: 35:46Треклист:
Side A:
Pancho and Lefty
It's My Lazy Day
My Mary
Half a Man
Reasons to Quit
Side B:
No Reason to Quit
Still Water Runs the Deepest
My Life's Been a Pleasure
All the Soft Places to Fall
Opportunity to Cry
Источник оцифровки: Thanks - nettz
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Turntable: Roksan Radius III
Tonearm: Audioquest PT-9
Cartridge: Ortofon X5-MC (Moving Coil)
Phono Cable: Van den Hul D-502 Hybrid
Pre-amplifier: Counterpoint SA 5.1 (vacuum tube Sovtek 6922)
Interconnect: balanced, Belden 1813A cable with Neutrik XLR connectors
Analog to Digital Converter: EMU 1212M (configured for balanced input +4dBu, 0 dB Gain)
Capture software: Goldwave 5.52
Post processing: ClickRepair, setting: 10, reverse, wavelet x3
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On Poncho & Lefty, their first album together, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson managed a rare feat: an album by two legends that lives up to, and at one point exceeds, expectations. In 1982, both artists were at the top of their game, Haggard just having released a great comeback album in Big City, and Nelson in the midst of a creative and commercial peak. The centerpiece of the album is the title track. Penned by Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt, the ballad of two renegades and the respect they earned from the law is the perfect vehicle for Haggard and Nelson, both of whom managed to achieve legendary status in spite of being outsiders to the Nashville establishment. The song's production enhances its power; it is polished without becoming slick (note Nelson's double-tracked guitar solo), and there's power in reserve -- in the wrong hands, this could easily have become a bombastic, over the top performance. Nothing else on the album comes close to the majesty of "Poncho and Lefty." That's not to say that the rest is not good, though. The other songs are all relaxed ruminations on life, from the joys of taking it easy on the throwaway "It's My Lazy Day" to the pain of love lost on Nelson's chestnut "Half a Man." Throughout, Haggard and Nelson duet in equal measure; one gets the sense that this is a collaboration in every sense. The sequence of "Reasons to Quit" and "No Reason to Quit" is an inspired bit of programming, both honky tonk songs of the first rank. Poncho & Lefty was followed in 1987 by Seashores of Old Mexico, a far less successful collaboration.