Anybody know where to score a copy of the 2016 Eli and the thirteenth Confession SACD?

emarei -- I agree.  Mono doesn't do it for me. I lived through several years of the pre-stereo era.  I was gobsmacked the day my dad brought home a stereo to replace his mono rig.  Was it 1958? 1960?  A whole new, wonderful world.  I have no shortage of pre-stereo monophonic LPs on my record shelf, either.  Some were dad & mom's.  Some were scored by me and my older sister.  True, there are exceptions, such as several 1950's Sinatra discs (and we mustn't forget the Herman's Hermits LP!), but in the main I just don't listen to 'em.  Call me a tasteless pseudophile.

emarei -- sorry I can't help you with Eli but your post sparked a long dead neuron in my cranium.  I compulsively dove into my CD collection and uncovered a Laura Nyro SACD I'd totally forgotten about -- of her "comeback" album "Angel in the Dark."  Yeah, anyway I'm crazy for the lady.  In my handful of most favorite artists. I saw her in performance twice, once at the Troubadour.  Was the other performance at the Hollywood Bowl or the Greek Theater?

emarei -- I'd be shocked if the night I saw Laura at the Troub wasn't her L.A. debut. I can't remember exactly who, but I saw my share of Hollywood movie and music heavyweights in the audience.  She hardly played a single tune straight.  She'd start a tune and then veer off into improvisations than often took her far, far from what was on the albums. Utterly superb. The Bowl performance wasn't very well attended.  I half-remember that they closed off most of the venue, with everybody guided to the first twenty rows or so.  BTW,I have a Laura Nyro song book, complete with transcriptions of her piano parts. In my now long-gone piano-playing heyday, I had more than a few of them under my fingers.  Of course, I never even tried to sing 'em.

emarei -- I was in...or just out of...high school.  I'd previously enjoyed Wedding Bell Blues, which was a modest hit on L.A. AM radio.  I went to a party.  Eli and the Thirteenth Confession was on the record player.  I absolutely had to have it but none of my go-to record stores had a copy.  I finally found one at a hipster record store in West Hollywood, ironically just a few doors down from the Troubadour.  I kept my eyes peeled for any mention of the woman.  Was it the L.A. Times or the L.A. Free Press that mentioned her upcoming Troubadour appearance? Who knows?

There were at least three rock-and-roll AM stations in Los Angeles in the late 1960's.  There were no FM rock-and-roll stations at all.  FM stations still mostly broadcast in mono, and the few stations that did broadcast in stereo mostly featured M.O.R. -- movie themes, percussion spectaculars & the like.  Stereo quality was pretty problematic, too.  One channel almost always had much lower quality.  It was distorted and ugly.  The one or two stations that could broadcast quality sound in both channels could be counted on the fingers of one hand.  College radio? Public radio?  Huh?  Wha?  There was, though, an excellent jazz station, KNOB ("the jazz knob").  Still better, the AM classical station KFAC had an FM simulcast.  Lemme tell ya'.  I listened to those stations a lot!  Excuse my ramblings.