Mighty Sam McClain – Soul Survivor (Hybrid SACD)

When Mighty Sam McClain released his first studio album under his own name, he was already over 50 years old. His drummer Lorne Entress made contact with the Californian label AudioQuest. His famous albums Give It Up To Love, Keep On Movin ‘and Sledgehammer Soul and Down Home Blues were released there. Soul Survivor brings together some of the best songs from the living R‘n‘B legend, supplemented by two previously unreleased songs.

About AudioQuest Music

The blues label AudioQuest Music was founded in the late 1980s and is now operated by Valley Entertainment under the name Sledgehammer Blues. The mission of the responsible producer Joe Harley was to produce the best audiophile recordings at the cutting edge of technology. Analogue technology with tailor-made tube electronics was used for this and any noise suppression, compression, equalizer or limiter was avoided. The realistic, spontaneous sound of the recordings, which lacks any overproduction, is characteristic of the result. By inviting the most talented artists to record, AudioQuest Music’s tracks are still some of the most interesting blues recordings available on the audiophile market. Bernie Grundman re-digitized and remastered the analog tapes for the SACDs.

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