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Lou Reed - I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos LP

Lou Reed - I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos LP

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Say what you will about Record Store Day and the current state of the record industry, this latest Lou Reed archival nugget delivered in time for RSD is surprisingly worthwhile!

Taped in the RCA studios after he’d left the VU, these tapes are a surprisingly clear collection of his demos for the first few solo albums with a couple of Velvets stragglers thrown in. 

Stripped of the production value of the first couple of his solo records, this is just Lou alone in the studio with a guitar, but what shocked me most about it is how fully formed these tracks are. So many of the embellishments that I’d always assumed were added by Bowie or other producers are here in the original demo tapes. 
-Mitch (Repressed Records)