The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck [COMPACT DISCS] Germany - Import date 04/12/2011

Jascha Heifetz - Jascha Heifetz Coll 5 Russian Recordings 1911 [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/10/2000

The last of the Inchall-home-recordings albumsInch by The Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/4Inch reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ'd by the guy from Fudge Tunnel. Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of The Mountain Goats' home recording era, a time people like to refer to as Inchwhen John Darnielle had his four-track,Inch except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. Highlights include InchJenny,Inch InchFall of the Star High School Running Back,Inch and InchThe Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,Inch a song which has compelled audiences around the globe to yell InchHail Satan,Inch and to mean it.