When I first named the collection, it was a play on words, laughingly, at George Bush's "misunderestimate" - combining "Retro" w/ "Respectful".
Originally, the collection contained what I called my "throwback" tunes w/ a nod to the 60s ... but as with all things that are randomly formed and released during a certain period of productivity, not every song in that album adhered to that vision. The result was that the flow lacked cohesion and uniformity of design.
In revamping my collections, I thought, "Nobody does the singer songwriter style album anymore." - Think Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Dan Fogelberg etc ... genre. Easy listening, acoustic based, solo performer type stuff that I used to spin on Sunday mornings while reading the paper.
Like the original release, I kept the opening and closing pieces of the collection - along with the needle hitting the record to start it and the familiar thump thump of it circling at the end.
In between I ripped most of the rest of it out and refashioned it into a collection reminiscent of the aforementioned artists.
As before, I've opened it all up for download for free.
Enjoy - and have a great weekend!