Red Beans & Rice were a New York based rock jazz fusion band led by Ray Draper
Damn fine music!
RED BEANS & RICE Featuring RAY DRAPER - Self Titled
EPIC Records
Cat# BN 26461 (Yellow Label)
USA release
1969
Heavy cardboard cover is in good (minus) condition, no tears, no writing and with only light edgewear due to handling BUT the top seam near the opening edge has split and is not easy to repair so it has been taped to make it secure (undertaken AFTER the photograph was taken) Some wear to the front cover graphics in particular.
New plastic inner sleeve
Vinyl is in very good condition, visually inspected under a white halogen light source, I can see just a couple of very light marks or scratches on either side. Just looking at a piece of vinyl doesn't really cut it, particularly as this is the nice heavy grade HARD vinyl which is so much more robust than modern paper thin vinyls. So I then played the album ENTIRELY, every single track, and there are no issues at all with surface noise or click/pops
New outer protective plastic sleeve
TRACKS: Happiness, Empty Streets, Trilogy, Gentle Old Sea, Let My People Go, Mess Around, Home, If You Ever Wanna
