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Music journalists often throw around words like "seminal" and "genius" very casually, as though such records come along regularly. Well they don't. But if you happened to be in just the right place in 1967, you might have had a chance to hear one of those albums about which both of those terms could rightfully be applied.

Howard Tate and writer/producer Jerry Ragovoy formed one of those magical studio alliances that come along only very rarely in the history of pop music: Jerry Wexler and Aretha Franklin; Tom Dowd and Eric Clapton; George Martin and the Beatles; Joe Boyd and Nick Drake. Tate's debut album, Get It While You Can, set the bar so high that even the artist himself admits he was never able to recapture its groove. After a few attempts back in the day, he gave it all up -for decades- only to return in 2003 with a much-lauded comeback album.

Who got Get It While You Can while they could? Just people like Hendrix. And Joplin. And Cooder. And B.B. King. They all covered songs off the record whose stature only grew as Tate's public prominence receded. The album went out of print, came back for an instant or two in 1995, and became even more a thing of legend, as Northern Soul collectors worldwide hoarded the few they could get their grubby little mitts on. eBay sent it into triple digits on a regular basis.

But that's all just commerce. Listen to "Stop," as he jumps out of the speakers from bar one and nails the high falsetto notes with a master's precision. Try "Look At Granny Run Run," a commercial for Viagra over thirty years before it was ever marketed. Check out the title track and hear where Janis got her soul and inspiration. This album just plain old kicks ass.

Not only do we have the album restored to its original running order (with two bonus tracks!), but we have the eight singles (a & b sides) in chronological order, reproduced in glorious mono! Oh yeah!