So i fixed this album up and like to have some feedback

Electric Mud by Muddy Waters

can you take a look if what i did is ok? when i did not know how to enter, i wrote in the annotations.
thank you!

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Wow, looks like a A+ release now!

I’m usually too busy to add as much relationship and credit information as you have, so nice one. Personally I don’t link to a Amazon page unless the release is exactly the same, and that one looks a bit different. But I think most editors don’t mind as much (and it might potentially make MB a bit of money if you link it anyway? unsure though).

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Given the existing amazon asin which clearly shows a different cover, you should probably have created a new release (perhaps amazon’s version is a jewel case, or not a remaster; that would also explain the release event discrepancy).
Mixed by should be the mixer relationship on the recordings.
Original recording engineer should be recorded by on the recordings.
The § and © I would place on the release (not sure if a remaster counts as new phonographic copyright; if it does, the recordings might need splitting in original/remastered).
I personally don’t tend to put ā€˜sax’ as alias for saxophone credits; but it’s not wrong either.

you are right about the amazon link, there seems to be a 1996 version and a 1997 version. both versions were mixed up here (and on discogs too), so i will create a new release for the 1996 release and leave this the 1997 version. as there are currently 3 discids attached right now, i will keep the one i can confirm from my copy and move the other two to the 1996 release?

edit: both releases share the same barcode, so that might be the reason those two get mixed up everywhere

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hmm. i just saw i used the production company for the label instead of the imprint type of the chess label… let’s see if i can change that without breaking any ongoing edits :3

edit: and thank you for your feedback @Zastai and @aerozol !

Yes, with the amount of things you added to this one, it’s best to create the 1996 separately, and just move the ASIN over (and adding the original USA/1996-11-19 release event). I’d also adjust this release’s release event to 1997-02-25; amazon may not always be accurate, but when it’s the only available datum, it’s still better than just the year.

I personally wouldn’t move the disc IDs across without knowing where they came from (at least one of the two ā€œotherā€ discids is likely be from some other release as it is).

Looking at your booklet scans, I’d also add Andy McKaie as ā€œadditionally producedā€ for producing the reissue.

What I do re. DiscID’s:

  1. comment on the edits that added those discIDs (if that history available), asking what version they had
  2. wait a reasonable amount of time for a reply
  3. move the ones I can identify, remove the others

Otherwise the incorrect discIDs will just sit there forever, and never be re-added to the correct release.

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