Enjoyed reading your post. If I wore a younger man’s clothes, I would love mentoring under Lance and April at DTD. Their dedication to archival music is a blessing to the music world.
Thank you Steve! I had to double back when I saw “Steve Ledbetter”! I appreciate your words and agree with them - definitely a blessing to the world and myself
Hi Allen, you are correct. No one can license recordings they do not own. I am doing my senior project on making the recordings of Dr, David Evans more sync-ready. For the material I am focusing on, David does retain ownership of the master recordings.
This was good to read. The care you're describing—the metadata, the tracklists, getting the artists properly recognized—is exactly the kind of unglamorous work that keeps music from disappearing. As someone who writes about songs and what's hidden inside them, I have a real soft spot for the old-time and folk material you mention; the Anthology especially is full of songs whose cheerful surfaces hide something much darker, and it takes patient work like yours for any of that to stay hearable. Your closing question is a good one to sit with. For what it's worth, the enthusiasm reads like the real kind.
Enjoyed reading your post. If I wore a younger man’s clothes, I would love mentoring under Lance and April at DTD. Their dedication to archival music is a blessing to the music world.
Thank you Steve! I had to double back when I saw “Steve Ledbetter”! I appreciate your words and agree with them - definitely a blessing to the world and myself
Hurray!
As an enthusiast of both archival music *and* metadata best practices, thank you Emmy!
I might be an enthusiast of metadata best practice lovers. Haha, thank you John!
Wow, you scored the internship where they didn't just have you making coffee and photocopies! Well done 🏆
Haha, thanks Bruce. I agree, seems like I won the internship lottery here.
I am confused - can you license music you don't own? Like these old recordings?
Hi Allen, you are correct. No one can license recordings they do not own. I am doing my senior project on making the recordings of Dr, David Evans more sync-ready. For the material I am focusing on, David does retain ownership of the master recordings.
anybody?
Excellent!
I played on a show at WREK when I lived in Atlanta back in the day. Ah memories lol
Ah! Sounds like a good time
Beautiful post!
Thank you Eloise!
This was good to read. The care you're describing—the metadata, the tracklists, getting the artists properly recognized—is exactly the kind of unglamorous work that keeps music from disappearing. As someone who writes about songs and what's hidden inside them, I have a real soft spot for the old-time and folk material you mention; the Anthology especially is full of songs whose cheerful surfaces hide something much darker, and it takes patient work like yours for any of that to stay hearable. Your closing question is a good one to sit with. For what it's worth, the enthusiasm reads like the real kind.