La Guitara Gender Bending Strings

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2005

Label: Vanguard Records

Thanks
Our warmest appreciation to Ben Wittman and Amy Putnam for being there from the start to finish! We adore you! And special thanks to our other heroes and heroines: To Mike Deneen, Matt Beaudoin, and Kris Smith for your magic with sounds. To Maruta Vitols for your help along the way. To tour gods -- Jeff Laramie, Steve Heath and Mike Wolke, diva Toni Zeimer, Super-Pertz and Ann at SRO. To Kevin Welk and Steve Buckingham at Vanguard Records for lighting up at first mention in 2000. To Peter Matorin, Carolyn Allen, Daniel Shulman for making legalese legal and to Ron Schreier, Dan O'Brien, Phil Davidson, Tim Craven, Myrna Johnston for your love of live guitar sound. To Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Gary Burton, Nick Forester, Artie Traum, Peter Gallway, Julie Bergman, Carol Young, Marianne Lampke, Lisa Timmons, John Beynard, Sheila Larkin, and Emily Lichter for your advice and encouragement. To Nette Olsen - just because, and to Carla Leighton and Ellen LeBow for your dedication to art and spirit. To Jeff Krasno and Sean Hoess, Sarita Stewart, Ed Dunsavage, Mark Alpert and Georgette Cartwright, Stephanie Hopson and Patricia Maduke. To Del Rey and Sue Foley who are each doing their own unique work to further the appreciation of women's contribution to the evolution of the guitar. And finally - and most importantly - our deepest gratitude to all the players on this recording and all women guitarists who are out there making the music. You are our inspiration.

Bette Warner and Patty Larkin/Producers

PS: To Maddie and Sadie, Tulip and Flower. And then there were 4.

Benefitting Organization
A portion of the proceeds from this recording will be donated to "Guitars in the Classroom" a non-profit national program whose mission is to bring music into public elementary and middle schools by offering regular classroom teachers free guitars, music education, song leadership and music integration lessons through regionally based programs. www.guitarsintheclassroom.com

Executive Producer Patty Larkin
Producers Patty Larkin and Bette Warner
Production Assistance Ben Wittman

Research & Project Assistance Amy Putnam
Research Assistance Maruta Vitols

Mastered by Ted Jensen, Sterling Sound, NY, NY

Art Direction & Design Carla Leighton @ Gloo Design

Guitar Girl Tin Art by Ellen LeBow
artmatenwa.org
In support of Women Artists of Matenwa, Haiti - a small community of women artists on the island of Lagonav

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