HARVEY REID'S EARLIEST RECORDINGS (#101 & #102)

NOTE: These 2 LP's have been unavailable for almost 10 years. We have recently transferred them both to digital, and the music on them is now available for sale on a per-song basis, on Custom CD's you will be able to order off the web site. You will be allowed to order from the out-of-print catalog, plus some selected goodies including out-takes, live cuts and historic things. These items will be available on a pay-per-song basis, and burned onto a CD that will be mailed to you.We will not offer them as MP3 files, but you will have access to this out-of-print music, as well as an increasing number of out-takes, live cuts, and rare or historic things we have in our vaults. Wih each custom CD you will get color art work & track information (for the LP's below, it is taken directly from the LP jacket) plus credits and historical information surrounding each song you purchase.


Nothin But Guitar cover

#101- Harvey's first recording, a guitar instrumental LP titled Nothin But Guitar was released in Fall of 1982. Nine of its 16 cuts were re-released (all but one of them re-recorded) on #105 Solo Guitar Sketchbook. Three or four of the remaining missing cuts are hopefully to be included on a collection of partial capo music. It was never released on CD or tape. This LP is the first recording to feature the partial capoed guitar. (tracks that use the Third Hand Capo are marked with *) It was superbly engineered by Ron Freeland and recorded at TRACK Studios in Silver Spring MD in 1981 and 1982, using a Neve console, direct to Ampex 2-track analog tape with Dolby A and EMT plate reverb. Only 2000 copies were pressed.Tracks marked with (+) have not reen re-released or re-recorded.

SIDE ONE: The Albatross*, Le Petit Rien(+), Simple Gifts*, The Fisherman, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Rocky Road*(+), I'll Fly Away*, Minuet in G(+)
SIDE TWO: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Dirty Dish Rag, Wildwood Flower*(+), Slipped Through My Hand*, Irish Washerwoman/Home From The Sea(+), The Ghost of Casey Jones(+), Farewell to Tarwaithe*(+)



Very Old Song Cover

#102- A Very Old Song was released in Fall of 1984. There were 2000 copies pressed. It was Harvey's only multi-track studio recording until a few cuts were done in multi-track in 1998 on #113. It contained 10 cuts, one of which was included on Overview, and 4 of which were re-recorded for subsequent CD's. There are currently 3 cuts* on it that are not in print anywhere: The Flower of Loudoun County, Raspberry Reel , and a vocal version of Slipped Through My Hand. #102 was never released on CD or tape. It was also engineered by Ron Freeland and recorded at TRACK Studios in Silver Spring MD in 1982 and 1983, using a Neve console, to Ampex 2-inch 16-track analog tape with Dolby A and EMT plate reverb.

We do have a single box of unopened LP's (Wakefield virgin vinyl, European loose packaging-- the top-shelf analog experience) of this that are for sale for $24.95 + $4 shipping. E-mail us.It's not on our web order form.

SIDE ONE: Dreamer or Believer, I Will Learn to Love You*, Raspberry Reel*, Slipped Through My Hand, Suite for the Duchess
SIDE TWO: All or Nothing, Cryin Shame, The Flower of Loudoun County*, Johnny the Fisherman, A Very Old Song


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