LP for fathers day ideas please............

I put my money where my mouth is and ordered the 45 rpm "A Meeting By the River" from Acoustic Sounds (for my own Father's Day present) not long after I posted the suggestion. From the reviews and excerpts I've read, it sounds like this may be one of the best-sounding LP/EPs out there, ever! On top of that, I've heard the CD and like the music. I've been a Ry fan for over 30 years.

I grew up with a bit of a classical background myself, though I gravitated toward jazz and of course a lot of great rock and pop music came along in my teens (Beatles, Stones, Who, Beach Boys, Cream, etc.).

But I'll tell you what I want for Father's Day, and it's THIS, the 45 rpm vinyl LP of Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt's "A Meeting by the River."

Well, I took delivery today on the 45 rpm LP version of "A Meeting By the River." And I have to say it is an absolute treasure in every way--performance, recording, and mastering.

If more records had been mastered and pressed like this in the '60s, 45 rpm would have become the standard, and the buying public would have LAUGHED at the thought of migrating to CD. When I drop the needle on this one, Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt are *in da house!*

I have some very fine 33-1/3 rpm direct-to-disc LPs, but this Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue is the sonic jewel in my vinyl crown. Almost any other record in my collection is a sonic letdown after playing this.

Analogue Productions is in the process of re-issuing 25 Blue Note classics as 45 rpm 180g 2-disc sets. Artists include Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Grant Greene, Kenny Burrell, Elvin Jones ... I may have to get a vinyl 2nd mortgage.