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Release Date: 1982

Label: Windham Hill Records

No barcode on sleeve. Black vinyl; some copies are translucent when held up to light.

Manufactured by Windham Hill Records
A Division of Windham Hill Productions Inc.
Box 9388 Stanford, CA 94305

©℗Windham Hill Records 1982
Distributed by A&M Records, Inc.

A1, A4, A6a, A6b, B4 Windham Hill Music BMI
B3 Hollis Music Inc. BMI
All others in the Public Domain

Recorded in September and October of 1982 at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, CA

This recording was made direct to two-track using a Studer A 80 VU MK III half-inch recorder at thirty inches per second. No noise reduction was employed. KEF speakers were used for audio monitoring and referencing on this recording.

Original Half-Speed Mastering at JVC Cutting Center

A1 - Inspired by friends and places of Miles City, Montana.
A2 - An Appalachian carol of the late Eighteen Hundreds. Collected by the eminent folklorist John Jacob Niles.
A3 - Inspired by an arrangement by guitarist David Qualey.
A4 - Inspired by Vince Guaraldi.
A5 - A Nineteenth Century Ukrainian carol.
A6 - Minstrels was inspired by St. Basil's Hymn, a traditional Greek children's New Year's carol based upon a rendition by Malcolm Dalglish, from his album Malcolm Dalglish & Grey Larsen - Thunderhead, on Flying Fish.
B1 - Composed circa 1699, the Kanon was originally an organ piece.
B2 - An Eighteenth Century English carol based upon an earlier French carol.
B3 - Composed in 1951 by Jazz trumpeter Alfred S. Burt (1921-1954). Some Children See Him was one of fifteen carols written as gifts for friends. The piece was originally a song with lyrics by Wihla Hutson expressing the unconditional love present within children.