A Word dilemma
Posted by Steve Turner on 8 May 2008 - 12:45pm.
I put this months free CD in the Car CD player and put the cover in the glove box. I listened to and from work and when I got to track 11 a strange sense of familarity overcame me. I knew the song but couldnt recall who it was - it racked my brain for the remainder of my journey home - It was Pete Atkin. I used to have the album Driving through Mythical America that he made with Clive James many many years ago on cassette. I want it again. A quick scan of Amazon offered it as a twofer for £99 - I dont want it that much!!! 2 questions:-
Is the remake album by Pete Atkin any good? Are the songs significantly reworked from the originals?
Any idea where I can get Driving through Mythical America on cd without having to take out a mortgage??
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There's a near-mint vinyl copy
advertised on GEMM at the moment for less than $20, from someone in the UK. So for around a tenner you could do your own CD from that.
No, you're not getting mine
I think I recall reading that the problem is that the rights to the Atkins/James albums are with See for Miles Records, the re-issue specialist which last released them (Driving Through Mythical America was on a twofer with Beware of the Beautiful Stranger). They went into voluntary liquidation which leaves the current ownership of the original recordings a nasty grey area of copyright law. A pity, as I sure that they would sell a slow but steady number if they were available. There seems to be a wealth of articles and forum chat at www.peteatkin.com so I'm sure you can find out more there.
Re-issued CD
Is it any good? Yes, it is good to have any Pete Atkin recording. No, the version of Master Of The Revels is so diifferent and inferior I wanted to throw the thing out of the car window. How could they do that to one of my favourite tracks.
At least I have copied Live Libel from my vinyl copy onto my PC. Bliss.