Guaraldi’s Peanut Portraits

The cover shot is an odd mixture of ultra-smiling characters and ones looking curiously dubious.
The cover shot is an odd mixture of ultra-smiling characters and ones looking curiously dubious.

Now available for preorder is Peanuts Portraits, a new album of old tracks, including some previously-unreleased takes. Some of it is pure Guaraldi, other parts are George Winston covering Guaraldi’s characters tunes. Peanuts FAQ maintainer Derrick Bang provides what they still apparently call “liner notes”, despite the facts that CDs don’t actually have liners.

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