Doug MacLeod – Come To Find (45rpm 200g 2LP)

Label: Analogue Productions – AAPB 1027 – 200 Gram Virgin Vinyl
AAA 100% Analogue – Mastered By Kevin Gray at Acoustech Mastering –
Limited Edition – Pressed at QRP Quality Record Pressings
This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For!

Come to Find is the first of what I hope is to be a continuing series of outstanding albums pairing producer Joe Harley of AudioQuest Music with Doug MacLeod’s special gift for the blues (the second record from this series, You Can’t Take My Blues, was released last year and could just as easily have been my choice.) All but two of the 11 songs here were penned by MacLeod—and there’s not a weak number among them. With cuts like “Master’s Plan,” “Lost Something This Morning,” Willie Dixon’s “Bring It On Home,” or the title cut, it’s hard to go wrong. My favorite seems to be whichever one I’m listening to at the moment.
The project was recorded live, direct to two-track, in two days of January 1994 at Ocean Way Recording under the steady hand of Michael C. Ross, followed with mastering by Bernie Grundman. The LP portion of the project received the best of care, the late Ed Tobin handling the plating chores. Not surprisingly, the sonics are spectacular—“audiophile” music at its best, and a record I wouldn’t be without. www.stereophile.com

Spend any time around Doug MacLeod and the stories from his years of road time with the likes of Big Joe Turner and Pee Wee Crayton start to flow as easily as a brook tickled by a breeze. And you know you’re getting to the good part, the climax if you will, when Doug’s eyes start to twinkle, his grin grows broader and out of his mouth pop the words “Come to find …”

MacLeod was a widely acknowledged electric blues guitarist for many years, and the leader of his own band, yielding a number of U.S. and European tours and several albums to his credit. Doug disbanded the group to focus all his energies on his first love, acoustic blues.

Come To Find is the debut fruit of that effort. And now it’s made even more remarkable, with this 33 1/3, 200-gram reissue by Analogue Productions. The pressing sounds spectacular. You’re holding a hefty 200-gram masterpiece from our own Quality Record Pressings, our state-of-the-art LP pressing plant. And the gatefold jacket is hard-core, old-school style – thick cardboard, tip-on, with additional photos and liner notes inside. Sweet.

Come To Find is the sound of a consummate bluesman touching the core of his art in a program featuring ten originals by Doug. He is beautifully supported in this intimate setting by harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite and the Mighty Flyer rhythm section, Jimi Bott and Bill Stuve. This is the album that deserves a place of honor in the music collections of even casual blues fans. And for those who love blues already, this is one of the best-sounding, most original works you’ll ever hear.

Side 1:

1. Bring It On Home

2. Since I Left St. Louis

3. Mystery Woman

4. Come To Find

5. Old Virginia Stomp

Side 2:

1. Master’s Plan

2. Ain’t No Grave

3. Lost Something This Morning

4. Rollin’ & Tumblin’

5. Any Port In A Storm

6. When I Left Missouri