Matt Deighton: 'You are the Healer' 12" Vinyl Album Released 2000 1st Press Rare

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Artist: the brilliant Matt Deighton

Title: ‘You are the Healer’

Barcode: of the six copies that I have owned of what is my personal favourite of Matt’s solo albums, five have been barcoded 5 030820 014920 – this copy is unique in that it has an over label with ‘YEAAH55LP’ and a revised barcode ‘5037300 057118’ and therefore incredibly rare.

Release number: WHEEL LP1

Label: Barley Wheel

Release date: recorded early 1996, and due to label dispute and legal process finally released in 2000.

Rarity: super rare single album pressing released some four years after the last Mother Earth album, the double live album ‘the Desired Effect’, despite being recorded early that same year in 1996. This is the first record released on the Barley Wheel imprint and under Matt’s direct control, post extricating himself from his Acid Jazz contract and a long legal dispute involving the ownership ‘rights’ of this album.

Condition outer cover: this is a single panel outer cover opening on the right-hand side. In grading the cover, I would point that this is a thin, incredibly fragile soft and thin card, and I would suggest nigh on impossible to source in a ‘like new’ condition! I didn’t think would be possible to find a more fragile cover than the one covering Matt’s 1995 release ‘Villager’, but this is even more fragile!?

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Please note the following in my assessment of the condition of this sleeve:

Front panel: lovely flat cover with tiny amount of creasing. Some minimal rubbing within the soft sheen finish through twenty years plus of storage. Tiny ‘dink’ and tiny amount of corner wear in the top right-hand corner of the front panel.

Rear panel: as per front panel, this is a beautiful panel and tiny, tiny amount of the lightest creasing at certain angles under light. No real evidence of what is minimal rubbing on the front panel.

Spine: minimal creasing, and all wording legible. More or least ‘perfect’ with minimal wear around the ‘you are the Healer’ title wording but tiny amount! wear along length of spine.

Top and bottom edges: superb, tiny amount of wear and rubbing under fluorescent light, and no splits.

 Overall, this is the best condition copy I have ever handled of this sleeve, and knowing how rare this and how fragile the sleeve is,  must be a final upgrade copy! Do bear in mind the record is now twenty-one years old and housed in a flimsy card sleeve, and at the time sold in tiny quantities on vinyl, so I doubt you will ever see a better first press in this condition!

I am grading the cover as excellent plus (+) condition.

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Inner sleeve: soft generic die-cut unlined paper sleeve has no creasing and no splits and looks superb. I am grading this inner sleeve as excellent plus (+) condition.

**This is the only copy that I have owned that has a Barley Wheel card insert listing future release of ‘The Common Good’ by Matt and ‘Earth’s Grooves’ by his then-wife Nicola Bright-Thomas**

Vinyl: I played this on my recently commissioned Marantz TT15 at high volume. This is an amazing but very unforgiving deck for any record with any blemishes, and therefore a great test for all used vinyl’s that I sell. The visual inspection clearly evidences this has had a one play on side one and two on side two. Extremely clean vinyl with minimal static and lovely and flat on my turntable. The visual of this copy excellent and only shows minimal handling, tiny number of hairlines and a nice deep shine.  I have played this copy through and this was a totally stunning aural experience! No pops, clicks or jumps and no static! I have to say that this is my best ‘sonic’ copy I have in my collection and without question again a final upgrade copy! My favourite Matt Deighton solo album, and it’s just superb to hear this album on vinyl format and loud! I am grading this vinyl harshly as excellent plus (+) condition.

Vinyl matrix side one: HGVL 1492 A TWIG FISH PONDS, DUFFER'S PEACE, CUCKOO'S CLUMP, THE HUNDRED ACRES, THE RACECOURSE FSV FOR ROMY & SONNY / side two: HGVL 1492 B2 TWIG AH, FUNNY OLD NAMES THEM FIELDS HAD NA'LL DID'NM  IT'S A VILLAGE THING  LISTEN TO WIZZ JONES  LISTEN TO DAVY GRAHAM

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