Booker T. Jones
Signal Kitchen
Burlington, Vermont
July 26, 2013 (Late Show)

Booker T. Jones - Keyboards and Vocals
Vernon "Ice" Black - Guitar
Darian P. Gray - Drums (rapping on "Take Me to the River")
Melvin Brannon, Jr. - Bass

SOURCE: Apple iPhone 4 with TASCAM iM2 external stereo mic > 24-bit/48kHz FLAC

EDITING: Audacity v3.1.3 for Mac (High-Pass Filter: 48 dB roll-off at 125 Hz) > FLAC level 8 (24-bit/48 kHz)

MASTERING GEAR: Apple MacBook Pro (mid-2012) w/SSD and 16 GB RAM > AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt USB D/A Converter > Audeze LCD-X headphones with Toxic Cables Silver Widow headphone cable.

TAGGING: Mp3tag v1.4.4 for Mac.

TRACK LISTING:

01 - [Crowd-Tuning]
02 - Harlem House
03 - Fun
04 - Born Under a Bad Sign
05 - [Band intros]
06 - Green Onions
07 - Take Me to the River (Al Green)
08 - Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
09 - Knockin' on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)
10 - A Song for You (Leon Russell)
11 - Soul Limbo
12 - '66 Impala
13 - Melting Pot
14 - Everything Is Everything (Lauryn Hill)
15 - Time Is Tight
16 - Hey Ya (OutKast)
17 - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding)
18 - [Crowd]

TAPER/SEEDER NOTES: Better late than never! It took nearly nine years, and here it is: Booker T. Jones' spectacular July 26, 2013 late show at Burlington, Vermont's Signal Kitchen. Signal Kitchen is an all-but-unmarked tiny basement venue in an alley in the downtown section of Vermont’s largest city that doubles as a recording studio. (As of today's date, there does not appear to be another show on DIMEADOZEN recorded at Signal Kitchen.) I recorded this standing-room-only show with my then-cell phone (iPhone 4) using an external stereo mic (TASCAM iM2) in 24-bit/48 kHz FLAC. I placed the iPhone and attached mic on a window sill above the crowd, started recording, and ventured into the crowd to enjoy the show. The raw recording was extremely bass-heavy due to a combination of room acoustics and an apparent lack of low-pass filtering in the iPhone/TASCAM rig. I set the recording aside, thinking I would work on it at a later date to try to reduce the bass overload. With lots of trial and error using Audacity for Mac, I found that I could improve the recording's listenability dramatically by reducing the bass energy at 125 Hertz using Audacity's High-Pass Filter. In the end, the only adjustment I made to the raw recording was to apply a High-Pass Filter roll-off of 48 dB at 125 Hertz. I hope you like the result.

Recorded and mastered by Mudshark and seeded to DIMEADOZEN by Mudshark on May 14, 2022.