Sasha Matson, Sterophile

“I cannot recall previously describing a listening example as “hair-raising,” but that’s what happened: My hair rose. I was listening to “Levee Camp Holler” and “Eighteen Hammers” from Atlantic SD-1348 spinning on my VPI HW-40 turntable, sung by Johnny Lee Moore and 12 Mississippi Penitentiary convicts. In stereo. Those call-and-response vocals and pickaxes hit metal hard. The time machine created by the PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrids beamed me right down there onto that red clay. ”