I'll let you all in on a little secret: I've had these tracks for years. I remember when a certain foreign website was taunting me for not releasing them and implying there was some big scandal about them that precluded me from making them available to the fans. (More paranoia).
Actually, I sat on them because despite our best efforts, we could never get them sounding as good as I hoped for. That is, until technology improved and we also linked up with an incredibly talented audio restoration engineer named Richard Moore, who does a lot of work for the big EMI label.
We had taken the sound quality a considerable distance from the flawed originals (which, btw, cost me thousands of dollars to acquire), but Richard took us across the finish line. The sound quality truly surprises me because it is -- like you say, Doris -- just like sitting in the Ryman in the front row listening to these performances by the fabulous Jim Reeves and the other stars he hosts.
So glad this brought back memories for you. It did me, too, because one of the occasions on which I visited Mary Reeves as a teenager, I was backstage at the Opry when Elvis was back there too, unobserved by the audience, just watching and enjoying the show. A night to remember!
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