The two lps in this jacket were recorded between 1959 and 1964 when part of the 1959 sessions were recut. John recorded them himself on rented or borrowed home tape machines. | Album Art |
We have always been concerned with the low fidelity (the highs cut off at about 8000) and the fact that they no longer reflect John's skills as a guitarist or his present ideas of arrangement, but Takoma is not wealthy and it was not until mid-1967 that enough money was accumulated to go into a studio and cut the songs the way they should have been cut. I feel that these early sessions are inferior in many ways to the 1967 sessions which are now on sale as Takoma C 1002s and C 1003s. However there are always people who are interested in earlier versions of songs either thru preference for a particular moment of history, or a desire to follow the development of an artist, or for the esoterical itself. John and I are among them with our backgrounds in collecting negro folklore, so we are keeping these sessions available in this form. ED Denson |
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