The Doors - L.A. Woman VINYL LP 2xLP APP75011-45
Mastered by Doug Sax and overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors producer/engineer.
Part of The Doors reissue series proudly presented by Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings!
The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, though his voice sounds increasingly worn and craggy on some numbers. Actually, some of the straight blues items sound kind of turgid, but that's more than made up for by several cuts that rate among their finest and most disturbing work. The seven-minute title track was a car-cruising classic that celebrated both the glamour and seediness of Los Angeles; the other long cut, the brooding, jazzy "Riders on the Storm," was the group at its most melodic and ominous. It and the far bouncier "Love Her Madly" were hit singles, and "The Changeling" and "L'America" count as some of their better little-heeded album tracks. An uneven but worthy finale from the original quartet.
Tracklist
A1 The Changeling
A2 Love Her Madly
A3 Been Down So Long
B1 Cars Hiss By My WindowB2 L.A. Woman
C1 L'America
C2 Hyacinth House
C3 Crawling King Snake
D1 The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
D2 Riders On The Storm
