To date, liner notes has sold out over twenty performances and has paid tribute to approx. Featuring paige hernandez, baye harrell, akua allrich and kris funns corner store jazz. Liner notes, the written accounts accompanying a record, cassette or cd, have been an important element in the presentation of commercial music. Fish soon left the band to recover and pursue a solo career. Decoration day is a rock album released by driveby truckers in 2003. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Between the liner notes free listening on soundcloud. Over time, i have developed a musical geography of sorts, mapping the places where i hear certain songs more clearly and which, as a result, have become inextricably bound up with those songs in a way that is now impossible to untangle. Last week, the band released their eleventh and most political album to date, an american band. Changes in the way music is delivered to listeners, however, have changed the function and utility of liner notes, which have also been affected by.
The first single from the record, bohemian rhapsody, became queens signature song, and with its bombastic, mockoperatic structure punctuated by heavy metal riffing, it encapsulates their music. Not only do i now have a backup of the liner notes, but i can view that pdf on a tablet, for example, as im listening. Hood says that they wanted to distinguish the rock opera visually from their other records. Subscriptionbased streaming music service rhapsody may change the way we discover music. Local producers can access talent all over the world and local v. Liner notes to the end of the citation of the recording. You dont need a bottle of jack or even a trace of southern lineage to appreciate the genius of driveby truckers southern rock opera. Liner notes if the notes are unsigned that is, no author is indicated, simply add. Southern rock opera driveby truckers credits allmusic. Having written one of the greatest southern rock songs of all timethe living bubba, about a roadwarrior rocker dying of aidssingerguitarist patterson hood and driveby truckers strive for glory on a doubledisc set theyve dubbed southern rock opera. The best music books of 2017 have very little in common with one another. It was recorded in the kirk gallery church 1 in surry hills, new south wales and featured bon scott, angus young, malcolm young, phil rudd, and cliff williams, who replaced mark evans as the bands bassist shortly after the let there be rock album was released. Liner notes definition is comments or explanatory notes about a recording printed on the jacket or an insert. New world a progressive rock album by dave kerzner by.
The collectors choice label puts out a very wide gamut of reissues spanning the pop spectrum, mostly from between 19401975, and including some titles that the author has written liner notes for by the electric prunes, fred neil, quicksilver messenger service, phil ochs, dr. Considering the length of the album it is good to note there is no filler, and. Lainey schooltree is raising funds for heterotopia. Like seeing an animal in its natural habitat instead of in a zoo. Vinyls also missing the booklet with art and lyrics that you get with the cd. Southern rock opera is the third studio album by the alt country band driveby truckers. Almost six years in the making, the driveby truckers have created a startlingly intelligent work that proudly stands with the best music of their obvious inspiration. The music video for let there be rock was filmed in july 1977. As box sets should have good and extensive liner notes, standards for box sets are higher than those for single cds. The story of the allman brothers band is one of triumph, tragedy, redemption, dissolution, and a new redemption. I currently scan liner art and labels and then save those as jpgs, and then print those as pdf files which i then drop on a media file server. Great writing but not necessarily, and often great presentation. Not a rock opera in the sense of tommy or jesus christ superstar, this sprawling double disc is more akin to a song cycle about southern rock, in particular lynyrd skynyrd. That being said, i have always had a soft spot for southern rock and storyteller music for lack of a better word so a southern rock concept album certainly sounded intriguing.
The record was originally selfreleased on soul dump. Ranking the albums that made driveby truckers a true american. Use a band logo, photo or artwork specially created for the project depending on how serious you are about making your liner notes, and how much time, money and effort you want to invest in the project. How to make liner notes for an insert for a cd our pastimes. The album was recorded mostly live over two weeks at chase park transduction studios in athens, georgia, and was produced by noted producer and former sugar bassist david barbe.
Pete hamill essay from the original back cover of blood on the tracks in the end, the plague touched us all. If the group has a the in their name or such, they are listed by the name. But as you begin to consider how youll be marketing it when it comes out, think of how a digital pdf of liner notes and additional art could help foster a new level of dedication from your fans that both already exist and begin to discover your latest release. While there are only a few items that are legally required to be added such as per a contract or statute, its probably a good idea to include most, if not all of the following. Southern rock operas two discs are labeled act i and act ii. A southern rock opera about growing up in the south in the 70s, the rise and fall of. The driveby truckers southern rock opera takes listeners on a road trip through the american south, with stops along mean old highways and. Liner notes is the aaamcs annual newsletter and contains information about our recent activities and programs. In the liner notes, driveby truckers dedicate this profound work to lynyrd skynyrd, americas greatest rock and roll band. If i make it through this year i think im gonna put this bottle down i guess as time goes on, ill grow to miss it less than i will now and i think im gonna. Liner notes definition of liner notes by merriamwebster. Why digital liner notes will change the way you listen to. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or.
The album was set in the 70s, recorded like it was the 70s and. A southern rock opera about growing up in the south in the 70s, the rise and fall of arena rock, the mythology surrounding the band lynyrd skynyrd, and common misconceptions about the south. In 2001 the talented upandcoming rock band driveby truckers released southern rock opera, a critically acclaimed album that was. Keith abstract southern rock bands of the 1970s were a cultural formation that displayed racially and politically progressive views in the postcivil rights south through the cultural form of southern rock music. The album was financed by issuing promissory notes in exchange for loans from fans, family. These are songs about stubbornness, drinking and driving, dying young, lynyrd skynyrd, and the. Over nearly 30 years, theyve gone from being americas single most influential band to a hasbeen group trading on past glories, to reach the 21st century. Schooltrees new art rock opera is a symphonic odyssey through a dystopian dreamworld. A double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, southern rock opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary southern band, lynyrd skynyrd. A very florid and impeccable technique with the power to reveal the message through the music. Driveby truckers southern rock opera 2011, gatefold.
By the end of 20, the company will be the first such service to include digital liner notes in song data. Digital deluxe edition new world album download both mp3 and hq flac downloads of a special double disc version of the new world album with extended songs and additional material not found on the standard album. March 5, 2020 in this installment of liner notes with rabbi and jazz historian neil blumofe, we learn about multiinstrumentalist, bandleader, composer and arranger. Without a hint of irony, the athens, georgia, quintet creates a fastdriving, hardliving tribute to the indelible music and legacy of lynyrd skynyrd. John, mad river, ramblin jack elliott, eclection, tom rush, judy. There is a japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. Driveby truckers women without whiskey lyrics genius. Southern rock opera, an album by driveby truckers on spotify. Liner notes is a music blog founded in 2010 by jason freitag and owen milbury. Liner notes for collectors choice music cd reissues.
Pusser is part of what patterson hood calls the mythological south in the liner notes to the driveby truckers sixth album, the inevitably titled the dirty south. Miles davis kind of blue album cover improvisation in jazz. Carter brey, cello 510 divertimento in eflat major, k. Between the liner notes is a documentary style podcast about music, why it is the way it is and how it got to be that way. Lost highway didnt bother to reproduce that when they did the reissues last summer, but its still way better on vinyl. An annotated look at the grateful dead by pitchfork.
Among the many important events of the civil rights movement were the demonstrations known as the freedom rides, in which activists rode interstate buses in the south in 1961 and beyond in protest of local laws enforcing segregation in bus seating and in bus terminals in defiance of. Dont you miss the liner notes when streaming music. Southern rock opera s two discs are labeled act i and act ii. We are a member of the goat rodeo podcast network new york. Listen free to driveby truckers southern rock opera days of graduation, ronnie and neil and more. Because the cd cover is the first page of liner notes, you should select an image for this first. These are examples of terrific or otherwise notable liner notes. Alternative country rock alternativeindie rock indie rock country rock.
Southern rock opera is the third studio album by the alt country band driveby truckers, released in 2001. Driveby truckers southern rock opera 33 rien fertel. The art of comedy, hosted by actorcomedian, kevin pollak marvelous. Written by journalists, critics, copywriters, fans, or other interested parties. The author is 71, and in liner notes, while discussing his memorial service, he writes, his tongue only slightly in cheek, lines that will make any father wince. They range from an incredibly indepth look at bob dylans gospel years to a wildlyentertaining oral history of the. In liner notes, loudon wainwright looks squarely at his. Album notes 101 the following is a list of information that should be included on your album or demo. Zinc media is now using source elements source connect isdn replacement. This is quite different from the music that i usually listen to as my first love is actually progressive rock. Liner notes premiered at the atlas performing arts center in 2012 and has since become a successful series with several installments.
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