Fingerprint (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Fingerprint
Type = Album
Artist = Mark Heard



Released = 1980
Recorded = Peace In The Valley Studios Los Angeles, California
Genre = Folk/Rock
Length =
Label = Palmfrond Communications
Producer = Mark Heard
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Last album = Appalachian Melody (1979)
This album = "Fingerprint" (1980)
Next album = "Stop the Dominoes" (1981)

"Fingerprint" is the title of an album by Mark Heard, released in Europe, in 1980 on Palmfrond Communications.

Heard would later name his record label, Fingerprint Records, and home studio, Fingerprint Recorders, after this album.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Heard.

ide one

# "I'm In Chains"
# "Nowadays"
# "One More Time"
# "Epistle"
# "Just the Same"
# "Well-worn Pages"

ide two

# "Intro"
# "Gimme Mine"
# "All the Sleepless Dreamers"
# "Negative Charge"
# "Brown-Eyed Sue"
# "Es Tut Mir Leid"
# "Remarks To Mr. McLuhan"
# "Threefold Amen"

The Band

*Mark Heard: Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass, Electric Lead and Slide Guitars, Mandolins, Moog, Percussion, Vocals and Background Vocals.
*Janet Sue Heard: Additional Background Vocals.
*Peter Johnson: Drums.
*Jon Linn: Electric and Acoustic Lead and Slide Guitars.
*Tom Howard: Piano and Synthesizer.

Production notes

*This is a homemade album for European release.
*Recorded at Peace in The Valley Studios, Los Angeles, California.
*Live Concert Taping by Kir, Basel, Switzerland, June 14, 1980.
*Photographs by Mark and Janet Sue Heard.
*Deutsche Übersetzung: Wolfgang Küng, Jean-Daniel v. Lerber.

Thanks to Terry Laughlin for use of his studio and home, to Peter, Jon and Tom for dropping by, to Jean-Daniel and Hansruedi for Birchermuesli. Love to Larry and the Circle of Cynics, to John & Prisca & Ann and the Huemoz folks for encouragement, to Chuck for darkroom work and being Perefit, to the Russell Hall Stairwell Dreamers, and to Corliss Lamont wherever you are.