Looking over my old album covers I am intrigued by the small-print sentences, or sometimes, if we’re lucky, even paragraphs of copy that follow each track title. Often the liner notes provide a lot more information in addition to who was in the studio for each recording or who sat in to play with the band.
Good liner notes are like good footnotes to history, giving us insight and essential data to the recording process and setting down for all time ‘who did what’ to make that recording special.
We intend these ‘Liner Notes’ on our SHMF site to provide background information and historical insight to the Southern Appalachian music we study, practice and love.
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