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cardboard sleeve

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

US original.
Includes booklet.

Hardcover booklet case. Numbered limited edition.

CD comes in a soft case, instead of the original crystal case. All booklets included.

Includes slipmat.

Includes booklet.

Red translucent vinyl!

Presenting the Katanga guitar sound, based on the traditional likembe music of the various Luba peoples and their neighbours, who bought the new instruments with wages earned in the mines. Plus three rhumbas from Stanleyville.

Clear vinyl. Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Limited edition. Original inner sleeve. tiny wear

Sealed copy with slightly dented corners.

Vinyl is very close to NM. Cover has tiny wear. 2019 reissue.

Still sealed with hype sticker. tiny wear. 2019 reissue.

Why you'll love it...
Much of Montevallo was deceptive in its simplicity, hiding era-defining songwriting talent and a whole new mode of country crossover behind a seemingly easy-to-replicate formula of marrying traditional country instruments with programmed beats and slick, dynamic melodies. Its velvet revolution won Hunt years of radio dominance and anticipated a tidal wave of what’s been termed “boyfriend country” — legions of imitators who took the singer’s gently flirtatious tack and R&B influences to their cloying extremes. Plenty in Nashville didn’t see Montevallo as a changing of the guard, and even after he’d become a country megastar wrote him off as either a novelty, insufficiently capital-C Country, or both. When confronted with resistance about his own mode of widening country music’s lens Hunt has tended to return to the root of the issue, which runs much deeper than a simple disdain for pop music in country or concern about preserving some of its imagined “authentic” past.