Interesting concept ... sort of like the iPod-ready versions of movies/videos that are coming out.
Forgive my ignorance, but has someone produced single CDs with "compressed" sound on one side and "uncompressed" sound on the other (much as with DVDs that have the wide screen version on one side and the full-screen, pan and scan version on the other)? Is that too simple? Too expensive? Is it less expensive to produce two separate CDs than to put different versions on a single CD? What's the advantage of encoding the second disc as a DVD (I'm sure T-Bone Burnett knows what he's doing, though)?
Re Tstarn's comment, "I'm not even a Mellencamp fan, but I am curious about the sound. And I am a major T-Bone Burnett fan." I'm not a huge Mellencamp fan, but I like some of his stuff, and one can follow a maturation, or a more weathered, grown-up, "lived-in" sound over the years in his music. And I love what Burnett did with "Raising Sand," so this could be an especially interesting CD, sonically.
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