Originally Posted by
Mascodagama
I don't think the two cases are remotely comparable in terms of the significance of the changes, which with Watercourse Way largely amounted to tweaks. But I obviously wasn't posting in order to say the Windham Hill version was preferable - subjective, innit? - merely to correct the implication in Mysterious Traveller's post that the changes to the Windham Hill version amounted to record company interference, which by all accounts they didn't.
EDIT: Also, there is a potential source of confusion here, because some people mistake the remixed Watercourse Way CD (minor changes to the original version) with the fact that on their second Wyndham Hill album release, Shadowdance, they recorded completely new versions of the tracks Watercourse Way and Song For My Brother that originally appeared on the Watercourse Way album. These are much more "New Age" / blander than either the original or remixed versions on the two versions of the Watercourse Way album.