Howard Tate: Howard Tate Direct-To-Disc

Analogue Productions

This direct-to-disc release is recorded in the church sanctuary of Blue Heaven Studios.

Cutting engineer Kevin Gray, using Blue Heaven's Neumann VMS 70 lathe with an Ortofon cutter head and amplifiers, and recording engineer Katsu Naito have made available for your playback the closest thing possible to a live, in-person performance. With direct-to-disc recording, the signal from the microphone is transmitted directly to the cutter head, which then cuts the grooves into a raw lacquer. There's no middleman. No tape. No tape hiss. No distortion or other artifacts inherent in any other type of recording.

And the music? It's killer! The session was recorded the weekend of the 12th annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads in October 2009.

Singer Howard Tate cracked the R&B Top 20 three times in the late 1960s, left music and endured hardship and anonymity for nearly 30 years and beginning in the early 2000s returned to his rightful place as one of America's most revered soul performers.

The release is housed in the generic APO company sleeve (matt black cardboard with glossy black "APO direct to disc" print).

All tracks were recorded live direct to disc.

Recorded At Blue Heaven Studios

Distributed By Acoustic Sounds

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