Intervention Records -  IR-SCD1 - Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Hybrid Disc Plays in all CD and SACD Players

Mastered From Analog Tape by Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio
DSD/CD Disc Masters Prepared by Gus Skinas at Super Audio Center
Deluxe Old Style "tip on" 5" Jacket Printed by Stoughton
So you have first rate packaging, Kevin Gray's impeccable mastering, and RTI's plating and pressing. Reissues do not get any better than this. Sound 9/10 Michael Fremer Analogplanet.

Featuring the FM Radio Classic "​Stuck in the Middle" Immortalized in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs! 

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

The short but legendary recording career of Stealers Wheel is defined by the pinnacle reached with its first two albums. Listening to this extraordinary self-titled 1972 debut effort it's easy to hear why many thought Jerry Rafferty and Joe Egan's Stealer's Wheel would become the UK's answer to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The duo's distinctive songwriting style is in full evidence, marrying ultra-catchy hooks and melodies to thoughtful but biting lyrics laced with black humor and sharp satire. 

As a band, Stealers Wheel was already disintegrating even as it was being formed. Players were being shifted in and out of the lineup right up to the recording sessions for this debut record, and leader Jerry Rafferty split from the band before the LP's official release. However, as "Stuck in the Middle" streaked up the charts in the US (peaking at #6) and the UK, Rafferty came back and the band became Rafferty and Egan plus backing players in the studio and on tour. Songs from Stealers Wheel's stellar first pair of LPs have gotten steady airplay since they were released, and of course Rafferty's breakout success with his solo album City to City shined a bright light on his earlier efforts. 

But there's no denying that Stealers Wheel became an indelible element of pop culture for generations to come when maverick director Quentin Tarantino built a major set piece of his own debut Reservoir Dogs around the infectious hooks of "Stuck in the Middle." The scene is as grisly as it is unforgettable and of course it's set up brilliantly by Steven Wright's styling as the world's dryest DJ. K-Billy's Super Sounds of the '70s aren't complete without Stealers Wheel!

"Stealers Wheel has always been a sonically enjoyable record, but Intervention has now given us a version that sounds definitive: Slightly buried percussion is more fully revealed, and Tony Williams’s bass lines are much more powerfully rendered. Voices sound more realistic, and the guitars, acoustic and electric, are presented more clearly. The many subtle details that help make it such a great record are now easier to hear and appreciate." - Joseph Taylor, Soundstagehifi.com 

"The label has sonically rehabilitated this lost treasure, producing a vinyl reissue that sounds better than the original vinyl or subsequent CD iterations. The stereo separation and depth are more readily savored, with the new LP having a full, natural sound that brings out the lost detail in the band arrangements." - Joe Marchese, The Second Disc 

1.  Late Again

2.  Stuck In The Middle
3.  Another Maning
4.  I Get By
5.  Outside Looking In
6.  Johnny's Song
7.  Next To Me
8.  Jose
9.  Gets So Lonely
10. You Put Something Better Inside Me