Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (1964) [Reissue 2003] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (1964) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 33:09 minutes | Scans included | 1,04 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 916 MB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 402 MB

The last of his studio albums released in his lifetime, Sam Cooke's Ain't That Good News offers a lot of superb material, pointing in several directions that, alas, were to go largely unexplored. The central number is, of course, the earth-shattering "A Change Is Gonna Come", with its soaring gospel sound and the most elaborate production of any song in Cooke's output. The rousing though less substantial title track also came out of a gospel tradition, as does Cooke's treatment of "Tennessee Waltz," which is one of his finest adaptations of contemporary pop material. "Falling in Love" was the work of Harold Battiste, an old friend of Cooke's who had recently re-entered his orbit and was partly responsible for encouraging the singer in exploring the New Orleans sound that was evident on "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" and "Meet Me at Mary's Place." And then there's "Good Times," a bittersweet, introspective party number, and the pensive successor to "Twistin' the Night Away." There are a few moments where the spell is almost broken by the intrusion of what seems like pop material, but even Cooke's version of "The Riddle Song" is worth owning, as a glimpse of how he could turn a folk song into a something so quietly soulful that its origins disappeared. With the exception of "Another Saturday Night," which had been released as a single early in the previous year, Ain't That Good News comprised the first material that Cooke had recorded in the six months following the drowning death of his 18-month-old son Vincent; it was also the first album that Cooke recorded and released under his new contract, which gave him greater freedom in choosing repertory and sidemen than he'd ever had, and so it offered a lot of pent-up emotional and musical expression, and, as it turned out, was tragically unique in the singer's output. Ain't That Good News was reissued in June of 2003 as an extraordinary audiophile-quality hybrid CD/Super-Audio CD edition by ABKCO Records, with full music and session credits. The sound on that edition literally blows any prior edition of the album, or any earlier CD release of those songs.

Tracklist:

01. Ain't That Good News
02. Meet Me At Mary's Place
03. Good Times
04. Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day)
05. Another Saturday Night
06. Tennessee Waltz
07. A Change Is Gonna Come
08. Falling In Love
09. Home
10. Sittin' In The Sun
11. No Second Time
12. The Riddle Song

Sound Restoration & Archive Coordinator: Steve Rosenthal (The Magic Shop).
Digital Transfers by Michael Gochanour. DSD Engineer: Gus Skinas.
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering.

foobar2000 2.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

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Analyzed: Sam Cooke / Ain't That Good News
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -5.68 dB -19.65 dB 2:28 01-Ain't That Good News
DR12 -4.10 dB -18.38 dB 2:41 02-Meet Me At Mary's Place
DR11 -5.00 dB -17.51 dB 2:26 03-Good Times
DR13 -4.35 dB -18.60 dB 2:33 04-Rome (Wasn't Built In A Day)
DR13 -1.85 dB -18.11 dB 2:40 05-Another Saturday Night
DR12 -4.83 dB -18.84 dB 3:09 06-Tennessee Waltz
DR10 -4.41 dB -17.94 dB 3:11 07-A Change Is Gonna Come
DR11 -5.41 dB -18.96 dB 2:43 08-Falling In Love
DR11 -2.86 dB -17.07 dB 2:30 09-Home
DR11 -3.18 dB -17.52 dB 3:17 10-Sittin' In The Sun
DR12 -4.21 dB -18.18 dB 3:01 11-No Second Time
DR11 -3.59 dB -18.79 dB 2:29 12-The Riddle Song
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 176400 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 1
Bitrate: 5645 kbps
Codec: DSD64


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