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Packaging: Digipak ©℗ 2008 Footprint Records. Tracks 1, 5 to 7, 10: Source: "The Maine Woods Songster" edited by Phillips Barry, 1939 Track 2: "Willie's" written for Willie Bain Source: "Maine Traditional Music, vol 4" produced for Maine Public Radio by Jeff McKeen, recorded from the singing of Newell Beam in Machias, Maine. Track 3: Source: "The Norumbega Harmony: Historic and Contemporary Hymn Tunes and Anthems from the New England Singing School Tradition" University Press of Mississippi 2003 Track 4: "Go Ken Go" written for Ken Voorhees Source: "The Maine Woods Songster" edited by Phillips Barry, 1939 Track 8: Source: "British Ballads From Maine: The Development of Popular Songs with Texts and Airs" by Phillips Barry, Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, and Mary Winslow Smyth, 1929 Note from source: Sent in, February, 1928, by Mrs. James McGill of Chamcook, New Brunswick, who learned the song in Scotland from her grandmother. Track 9: Source: "British Ballads From Maine: The Development of Popular Songs with Texts and Airs" by Phillips Barry, Fannie Hardy Eckstrom, and Mary Winslow Smyth, 1929 Note from source: Taken down from the singing of Mr. Thomas Edward Nelson, Union Mills, New Brunswick, September 28, 1928, who learned it from his mother, who was born in the north of Ireland and died in New Brunswick, 1918 aged 85 years. All tracks traditional, except where noted. All arrangements by the musicians on each track, except Lovely Jaime, The Drowsy Sleeper, and The Loggers Boast, arranged by Lissa Schneckenburger. Recorded at Sound Design (Brattleboro, VT). Additional recording at Poet's Corner (Co. Galway, Ireland) by Leon O'Neill, Frost Place Studios (Brattleboro, VT), and Robot Rodeo (West Newton, MA) by Eric Merrill Mixed at Q Division (Somerville, MA) Mastered at Metronome Studios (Brookline, NH) Corey DiMario appears courtesy of Signature Sounds Records Lissa plays Bob Childs (2004) and Collin-Mezin (1951) fiddles; Corey DiMario plays basses made by the Upton Bass String Instrument Company (Mystic, CT)