Intervention - IR-002 - Analogue Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

AAA 100% Analogue -180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Pressed at RTI - - Limited Edition

AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

With Kevin Gray mastering, RTI pressing and Stoughton Press producing the covers, it’s top quality all the way—the quality the late Gerry Rafferty deserves. You do too! I've been playing this one since 1973 and never get tired of listening to it and to the always ear-catching production. Very highly recommended! Sound 9/10 Music 9/10 Micheal Fremer Analogue Planet

This all-analog reissue of infectious lit pop, remastered from a pristine half-inch 30 ips safety copy of the original 15 ips stereo master, boasts striking sonics, with a deep and wide soundstage and tight, punchy drums and guitar - The Absolute Sound

100 Recommended All-Analog reissues Worth Owning - Michael Fremer Analogplanet 2019

• 100% Analog Mastering From Real Analog Tapes!

• Mastered by Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio

• Dead Quiet 180-Gram Vinyl Pressed At RTI

• Exquisitely Restored Cover Art Printed By Stoughton

Overlooked Gem from UK Legends Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan as Stealers Wheel

Hit Singles Include "Good Businessman," and "Star," Which Peaked at #6 in the US

It's easy to see why many thought Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan's Stealer's Wheel would become the UK's answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The duo's songwriting prowess is in peak form on Ferguslie Park, marrying ultra-catchy hooks and melodies to gorgeous vocal harmonies. For those who would look at the apparent overnight success of Rafferty's 1978 breakout City to City, Ferguslie Park is the record you can spin and hear where it all came from with great clarity, including those to-die-for saxophone interludes. 

The short but legendary recording career of Stealers Wheel is defined by the pinnacle reached with its first two albums. While  Ferguslie Park wouldn't have a mega-hit smash single like "Stuck in the Middle" (#6, US), this sophomore LP is a more polished effort overall from song to song, beginning to end. By the time Ferguslie Park was recorded, the band was distilled down to the songwriting duo of Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan working with a backing band of session players. It would hardly matter as Rafferty and Egan were clearly the creative essence of Stealers Wheel. Knowing the band's history of battling themselves, their producers and their record label it's easy to see where they were coming from with songs like "Good Businessman," "Nothing's Gonna Change My Mind," "Who Cares" and "(Everyone's Agreed That) Everything Will Turn Out Fine."

Ferguslie Park is a real district in Paisley, Scotland, where Rafferty and Egan first met in their teens. It's a story as old as rock n' roll itself that Stealers Wheel wasn't long for the world as a band- only one more LP would follow. But that doesn't dim the brilliance of the overlooked gem that is Ferguslie Park.

Mastering Notes

Stealers Wheel’s Ferguslie Park is sourced from the best tape that is currently available, a beautifully preserved ½” 30ips “safety copy” of the original 15 ips stereo master (in the photo at left notice the tape's misspelling as "Fergusile Park!"). When mastering this LP we compared what we were getting off the tape to the esteemed original A&M UK “RL” cut (Robert Ludwig!) on LP.  While great sounding overall, the original LP’s use of dynamic limiting/compression was easily evident, with the soft parts being louder and more up front, and the louder/busier passages dropping in level and noticeably smearing over the tremendous delicacy and nuance in the vocals and instruments. For the IR cut we eliminated this dynamic limiting and heard an immediate expansion and openness in the soundstage, and musical detail previously buried came to sparkling new life!

The (Re)Discover Series

You know those songs that come up on the radio when you’re driving and you crank up the volume to 11 and sing your lungs out? That’s the spirit of what Intervention’s (Re)Discover Series is all about! Taking these FM classics and presenting them in “like you’ve never heard it before” sound quality so you can get that same blast of energy and excitement on your hi-fi at home.

The hallmark of this series will be 100% analog mastering from real analog tapes. Combining superior master sources with the truly full-range mastering chain at Cohearent Audio and RTI’s dead quiet vinyl pressing means that you’ll hear these FM staples with power, majesty and musical detail like it’s the first time. (Re)Discover these sonic treasures with us!

Bass – Tony Williams
Drums – Rod Coombes
Engineer – Geoff Emerick, John Mills
Lead Guitar – Paul Pilnick
Producer – Leiber-Stoller
Vocals, Guitar – Gerry Rafferty
Vocals, Keyboards – Joe Egan

Side 1
        1. Good Businessman
        2. Star
        3. Wheelin’
        4. Waltz (You Know It Makes Sense!)
        5. What More Could You Want
        6. Over My Head
        
Side 2
        7. Blind Faith
        8. Nothing’s Gonna Change My Mind
        9. Steamboat Row
        10. Back On My Feet Again
        11. Who Cares
        12. Everything Will Turn Out Fine

100% Analog Mastering From Real Analog Tapes!

• Mastered by Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio

• Dead Quiet 180-Gram Vinyl Pressed At RTI

• Exquisitely Restored Cover Art Printed By Stoughton

The Audio Beat - Intervention is a worthy winner of TAB's Recording of the Year award.2016

There are often two aesthetics in vinyl reissues- to recreate the original vinyl releases, or to capture what’s really on the master. Intervention Records pursues what’s on the master, not the potential limitations of the original LPs and there are solid reasons for this approach. Many many LPs from the 60s, 70s and 80s were bass limited on purpose, and often the mastering chains and consumer playback systems were lower in resolution resulting in engineers pushing the midrange and treble to create a false sense of "detaiil or excitement.

RTI HQ-180 Vinyl

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