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    Wayfaring Strangers is defined both in terms of genre (its remit is folky Americana, "John Fahey apostles, singer-songwriters inspired by Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen" and means-of-production, scooping up the outstanding songs from "privately pressed albums that came out in editions anywhere from one hundred to five hundred copies". Full Article at The Guardian Music
    John Fahey apostles, singer-songwriters inspired by Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
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  1. sell steadily and we keep every single release in print. Because the spines look alike, it helps to draw people to series as a whole
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  2. Masses of music was put out then and not everything could get to be No 1, No 10 or even No 100 ... Soul culture was like the DIY scene in indie rock today.
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  3. We never got into this for it to be a loss leader
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  4. The collision of native styles, especially Caribbean ones, with the influence of soul or funk or psychedelia. James Brown landed on every shore and Motown was everywhere, and this seeded local versions all over the world.
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  5. a bit of fatigue with Eccentric Soul … they do become variations on a theme. It's the same story: black musicians facing the same problems.
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  6. Gorgeous little bits like a Brian Eno version of gospel maybe.
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  7. is like taking a picture of what it was like to make music in Wichita, Kansas in the 1960s and 1970s. It's stuff for the library of the future.
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  8. a custom studio is where there's one recording studio in town and people come and make a record, and then a few weeks later they go pick up anywhere from 50 to 200 albums. So you get all kinds of music being made there, and the guys who own the studio and produce and engineer the recordings, they become...
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago
  9. When we were going through the tapes we found a lot of stuff that didn't fit the main CD
    SOURCE: The Guardian Music 1 month ago

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