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I love having the context from a good set of liner notes. Session dates, musicians, back story. It anchors the music as work done by real people, and not just c

I love having the context from a good set of liner notes. Session dates, musicians, back story. It anchors the music as work done by real people, and not just content to consume. I don't really care about the physical discs, but it seems like there's not a lot of options (at least in bluegrass): a lot of this content is just not available digitally. (And when it is, the liner notes are usually lost in the process.)

iggldiggl 5y ago
> And when it is, the liner notes are usually lost in the process. And sometimes the tracks themselves are inexplicably mangled: The digital versions (both streaming and for download) of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series inexplicably leave out the between-tracks material on the live albums even though those bits are definitively part of the charme and appeal of that material. Plus when ripping myself I get to choose how to handle that kind of gap material: Standard procedure seems to be to stick it onto the end of the preceeding track, whereas personally I've found that for live albums I tend to prefer having it combined with the following track.