MUDCAT CD XI: HIGH BRIGHT NOON!

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 02 - 09:30 AM

Lyrics and liner notes go in the respective Disk threads.

Any issues or project discussion can go here.

The disks are in the hands of the Mighty Gawd USPS! Pray he flies true this week! They'll be with Dick by Friday, Monday the latest.
I sent them in five separate packets, so if they lose one the complete set will still arrive.

I realize looking at the history of the threads up above that this project was conceived way back in 98-99. It was resurrected in March of this year. Eight months, nine months with the followup work. A familiar number!

As usual in my business the original baselined schedule was exceeded significantly. But we're under budget! Good thing, 'cuz there ain't none! Software engineers are always over-optimistic about work and resources. THey seriously believe that 2.4 women could produce a baby in 3.75 months! :>)

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Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 04:24 PM

Anahata, I have PMd Joe Offer, who personally handcrafts the crosslinks at the top, to add one to Strawberry. In the meantime you can just click here to get to it. How's that?

Best,


A

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: treewind
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 04:17 PM

I don't know how the "Related Threads" thing at the top works, but it's causing a bit of grief at home here because there isn't a link to the Strawberry CD thread but there is to all (?) the others.

Can this be rectified, please?

Anahata

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Spartacus
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 03:44 PM

I put this in the Plum link too, but I wanted to make sure Amos got the message: Nice Work! The hardest working and most underpaid producer and engineer this side of the Mississippi. If Amos needs a job, I'm hiring....

Amos told his 'Catters,
Man ain't nothing but a man,
And 'fore I'll let that mudcat cd beat me down
I'll die with these recordings in my hand,
Die with these recordings in my hand.

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 02:19 PM

Please do add any comments and lyrics to your songs to the appropriate threads as soon as the confusion wears off, ok?

There are people who will want to buy these CDs who are not habitues of our gentle domain here, and I'd like to make a PDF file or something that they could get for the fuller commentary.

Thanks!


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Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:53 AM

Jerry:

Thanks -- but I think Max already has that tee shirt. :>) Unless he gave it to Pene Azul for Christmas!

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Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:49 AM

Thanks, Sooz!

The distribution will be through Dick Greenhaus' CAMSCO Music.

He is making ready to go into production as soon as he receives the master disks from me (shipping today) and the masters for the inserts from MichaelR who has generously volunteered to coordinate that side of the job.

There is a whole lot of beautiful, beautiful music on these disks, covering centuries and continents. Ya gotta hear 'em!!!

Start saving them dollahs!! It's a Christmas opportunity! (And, I believe, a historic first!)

A

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:48 AM

What a great gift you have given us all, Amos!!!!

Like the best of gifts, money had nothing to do with it. If there was ever a labor of love, this has to be it...

I Nominate Amos For Mudcatter of the Century!

Jerry

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:39 AM

I added a link back to this thread, in each of the CD tracklist threads.

~S~

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:21 AM

Thanks, Amos, for the investment of time and spirit. I know this has been a monster undertkaing fir you, my friend, but one that will bring you bountiful intrinsic rewards.

Do you have any ideas on distribution?

Bobert

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:17 AM

Ta, MM!

For ease of connection:

The ORCHID CD thread is here.

The STRAWBERRY CD thread is here.

The VIOLET CD thread is here.

The ROSE CD thread is here.

The PLUM CD thread is here.

A

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: MMario
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 10:03 AM

"Thank You" seems somehow inadaquate. On the other hand, bowing down to worship at your feet would probably get TGG jealous. I comprimise by lifting a libation in your direction!

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Musicman
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 01:01 AM

and so you should be!!!!!! Stoked that is.....

a job WELL DONE!!! and to be continued.....

waiting in anticipation of a wonderful thing..

thanks for all your hard work amos.....

paul (musicman)

Subject: RE: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 12:59 AM

And a SPECIAL thanks to that Dynamo of the West, Ms Sorcha, who did an amazing lot of work checking out rights and origins of the songs people sent in, to make sure we were all safe and legal-like. Did it fast and did it well, too. She's a pure-dee heroine.!!

(I offered her full time employment keeping me out of trouble but -- well she started asking about pay, but I think the high risk mighta made her nervous!! :>))

Love,

A

Subject: MUDCAT CD XI: HIIGH BRIGHT NOON!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 02 - 12:39 AM

Hello, folkies near and far.

I am happy to announce that I have just finished the master CDs for the fifth and last Mudcat CD in the Mudcat Sampler CD Series.

The Masters -- an original set and a back up set - will be in the mail to Dick Greenhaus at CAMSCO Music by close of business tomorrow (PST) -- in separate packages.

MichaelR has been given the playlists and is scrambling to get the inserts and artwork all lined up pronto so that DIck will be able to ship for Xmas. It is very tight. We need every ounce of cooperation to make it happen.

The playlists will be published here in separate threads, one for each disk.

You must advise michaelr by PM if you have any preferences for how your name is listed, website or email or whatever, in the CD inserts. (Assuming you controbuted a song).

I am going back through to recover those comments you sent me and forwardthem on to him about preferences for listings.

If you would like to offer lyrics, liner note comments or nostalgia or background history about your tracks, you can do so in the thread for the correct CD. The playlist will be at the top of each thread, so just add a post for each song.

I will be catching up all the housekeeping over the rest of this week.

I believe that everyone who contributed has been represented in this CD series and I have gone over my collection records several times trying to make sure of this.

If you sent something in and were not included in any CD, it was by reason of error -- mine -- and not because you did not make a cut. I don't believe this happened to anyone but if it did, write me about it and I will see what can be done. But know that you wee not left out intentionally if so.

The final playlists had to be changed in a few cases because of copyrights on songs. Every song in the CD series has been checked for encumbrance and in several cases songwriters sought out and permission solicited and gotten. Most are singer-songwriter by Mudcatters.

Finally, there is no scheme or empirical standard used in the evolution of the playlists except my own juggling of many factors, including time, how different songs fit together, the recording quality of the original, and a number of other considerations which I melded together in sorting them.

Not all the tracks are professional quality recording. Some were done on kitchen tables with cassette recorders, some were done in professional studios. People have fretted with mer about whether their performance was good enough. I have tried to stress that the raw impact of the song and the singer -- not the polish -- has been the most important criteria for me. There are some tracks where the power of the song comes through more vividluy, in fact, for having been recorded in the field, with more life than it ever would have had in a pro shop. That's just the way it is. These are not "CDs-R-Us" recordings and you wouldn't want that kind for this purpose.

That said, I have tried as hard as I could to take the hisses and pops and field noises out of the tracks in order to bring out as well as I could the best of the song. I have not always succeeded, given the limitations of the time and technology and expertise I brought to bear, but I have done what I could and if it is not satisfactory I am wholly responsible.

Please see the individual threads for the playlists for the Orchid, Rose, Strawberry, Violet and Plum Disks.

There is no ordinality to the disks, which is why they were named that way. (But just as a comment I hope you pay close attenton to the beginnings of Orchid and the endings of Violet.)

Guess that's all. Sorry for such a long post! Can you tell I am stoked?

Regards,


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