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Scott Hrabko writes songs and lives in Kansas City, MO, with his wife and kid.  He has a very nice band called The Rabbits.

Alice Gerrard's CD of all-original songs, "Bittersweet," is her latest CD and will be formally released in mid-July 2013. This an advance digital copy available to Kickstarter donors privately. Please don't share with others. Thanks to all of you.

Featured musicians are: Bryan Sutton, guitar, banjo; Todd Phillips, string bass; Stuart Duncan, fiddle; Tom Rozum, mandolin, mandolin-banjo; Rob Ickes, dobro. Simon Chrisman, Barbara Higbie, Rushad Eggleston, Andrew Conklin, and Steven Strauss also appear on one cut each. Harmony vocals are by Laurie Lewis, Beverly Smith, Tom Rozum, and Chloe Tietjen. 

I hope you enjoy the CD.—Alice

Never Records is a combination recording studio and record shop, setting up in locales throughout the world. The sole proprietor, interior decorator, and engineer is New York-based artist Ted Riederer. Inspired by his own redemptive education at a young age inside the walls of a local record store in Rockville, Maryland as well as the field recording projects of Alan Lomax, Riederer devised his unique community art installation in the early part of this century and has been replicating it with regional variations throughout the world since 2010.

Performers from a locale sign up for recording sessions ahead of time, with no auditions necessary. Riederer usually offers three hour sessions, during which he mixes on the fly and cuts vinyl right in front of the artist’s eyes once both are satisfied with a particular take. The recordings are free to the artist, the sessions are open to the public, and you can’t buy anything you see. Ted hasn’t lowered prices by cutting out the middleman. He is the middleman. He is not a vertical operation; he is an elliptical one, a constant feedback loop supplying its own demand. Still, everyone takes something home, even if it’s the barest speck of record shop camaraderie inadvertently inhaled.
-Ryan Sparks, New Orleans

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