By the time I got this for Christmas in 2004, I was acquiring music the early-21st-Century way.
All I really wanted were the songs that Nancy sings with Lee Hazlewood. I could have got them on iTunes, but I'd have had to pay 79 pence for each one. Instead I added this mid-price album to my Amazon wishlist, and when Hilary bought it for me for Christmas, I got the nine tracks I wanted, plus a physical back-up and the capability to rip them again onto as many disks, in as many different formats, as I like — and Hilary wouldn't have paid more than about seven quid.
While digital formats are still so compressed, and not interoperable, Cheap CDs always offer the best value way to buy music.
I think I only listened to the whole album once, just to check if any of the non-Hazlewood tracks were any good.
Some Velvet Morning remains my favourite among favourites, for it's extraordinary lyrics and the way it keeps switching to and fro between 3/4 and 4/4.
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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