The Strayaway Child

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1981

Label: Song Of The Wood Music

Collection of Southern Appalachian songs played on hammer dulcimers. Jerry Read Smith and Tom Fellenbaum are both luthiers and musicians.

Darker pink cover. Includes a 4-page insert and a 1-page order form.

Back cover specifies "Mastered: NRP, Nashville, Tenn.", unlike at least one other version.
Pressed by: Green Pressing, Newport, Tenn.
Album Cover printed by: Crystal Color Graphics
Insert printed by: Graphic Associates, Black Mountain, N.C.
Recorded by WES Sound Shop, Asheville, N.C.
Hammered Dulcimers made by Jerry Read Smith. Guitar, Bouzouki, and Bass made by Tom Fellenbaum.

Published by Song of the Wood Music
203 W. State St., Black Mountain, N.C. 28711

Order Form Text:
The Strayaway Child has been a "dream" for me in more ways than one. We tried to record in a "smaller," more "simplistic" way, at least, in terms of today's recording technology on our own label, Song of the Wood Music. We did "overdub" tracks to add depth and power without trying to compromise the flow of the record and concept as a whole. My greatest dream was perhaps, to see the record passed from friend to friend rather than through the more traditional "big record industry channels." Its 'success has astounded us and we thank YOU.
In our 6th pressing now, we still say . . . If you enjoy the music, pass the word.