Ladyslipper Catalog — Music by Women, Winter 1996–97

TL;DR — A mail-order catalogue of music by women, and one of the better surviving records of an independent distribution network.

Winter season 1996–97. Ladyslipper was a North Carolina non-profit distributing recordings by women musicians by mail order for three decades.

A catalogue like this is an index of an entire distribution network that no longer exists — before streaming, a mail-order specialist was how a listener found music that no shop stocked. The annotations are effectively criticism.

Scanned from a library collection, which is the only reason it survives.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

88 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.