Buddy Guy
eTown
January 24, 2007 [2007-01-24]

performed & recorded:
Boulder Theater
Boulder CO
U.S.A.
October 3, 2005 [2005-10-03]
(non-simultaneous broadcast)

I base my dates of the show & performance on a squib I found online (copy in comments). My note stuck in w. the CD-R just says xx-xx-06, but my recording was from a later repeat so I was only guessing. The online promo indicates that the original airdates were from January 24 to January 30 2007. I'm treating the first date as the 'actual' airdate, and considering the subsequent ones as re-broadcasts. I'm accepting as a matter of faith the dates shown in the promo material; it's surprising to me that something recorded in October of 2005 wouldn't get transmitted 'til over a year later - - - but I have no knowledge of eTown's schedules, & therefore no informed reason to gainsay data that seem to be right from the source.

originating station:
KGNU-FM, Boulder CO
national syndicating network:
National Public Radio [NPR] (USA)


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PERSONNEL
Buddy Guy
Ric Hall: guitar
Marty Sammon: keyboards
Jay Moynihan: saxophone
Orlando Wright: bass guitar
Tim Austin: drums

NB: Personnel = as per announced (twice) by series host Nick Forster (w. correct spellings vetted online). However, after piano solo in Going Down Buddy Guy seems to give a shout-out to [what sounds like] 'Bobby Thomas' (??). So I dunno - - - doesn't correspond to any name I can find online for a BG sideman.

HOST/INTERVIEWER
Nick Forster
CO-HOST/ANNOUNCER
Helen Forster

TRACKLISTING
01 - introduction / Going Down
02 - interview
03 - What Kind Of Woman Is This
04 - On A Saturday Night
05 - Sweet Home Chicago (w. Toshi Reagon)

total duration: 28m:16s

PERFORMANCE NOTES
ETown broadcasts usually had 2 different music guests, with the 'headliner' performing at the top of the show and again at the end. The other guest on this episode was Toshi Reagon. When I decided to start editing these captures for upload, I elected to break out each performer's bits into a separate edit rather than leave all of an episode's performers bundled together as one all-inclusive upload. (Thus no one has to waste ratio DLing stuff by another artist in which they may not be interested.) If it seems wanted, I could upload the TR segments as a separate torrent. She can be heard briefly joining in on the finale (Sweet Home Chicago).

The horn intro heard at the beginning of the 1st song (before Buddy Guy takes the stage) sounds a little like a Frank Zappa-type chart.

SOURCE
analogue FM

RECORDING NOTES
FM > CD-R
equipment: Onkyo TX-8410 receiver > Sony RCD-W500C standalone CD burner
recording format: 44.1 kHz / 16 bit

AUDIO NOTES
imaging: stereo

sound quality: very good (9 out of 10?)
(mp3 samples in comments)

TECHNICAL NOTES
generation: transfer from 1st generation off-air recording

transfer lineage:
analogue FM recorded via Sony RCD-W500C >
Exact Audio Copy v. 1.0 [secure mode] (audio extracted, glitches detected & removed from off-air music CD-R) >
HDD >
Sony Sound Forge v. 11.0 (stitch segments together, pan stronger channel to middle to create true mono mix)
Audacity v. 2.0.6 (track splits) >
Trader's Little Helper v. 2.7.0 (check SBEs, create level 8 FLAC files) >
bitTorrent

format: 44.1 kHz / 16 bit [CD compliant]

file size: 178 MB

MIXING/EDITING NOTES
As mentioned above, headlining eTown performers would customarily perform at the top of the show, and again at the end. Here both segments are stitched together to sound like one fluid presentation.

There is a slight amount of FM interference audible. The only outlet in my neck of the woods (Boston) which carried this series was a low-wattage college station, so getting a nice, strong signal to tape was a continual challenge. I had a BIC FM 10 Beam Box "electronically directable" antenna, which theoretically could hone in on the desired frequency, and I believe it helped. When I listened back to this particular recording, I considered using some noise reduction tool or other to try to filter out static, but decided against it. It's there but it's not that bad. To me it's noticeable only during the talking segments --- the music is loud enough to mask it --- so I left things be lest the cure prove worse than the disease (which can sometimes happen).

MESSIN' WITH THE KID DEPT.
Please don't upload this elsewhere. I'll do it myself if & when I get the feelin' (Good Gosh-a-mighty, y'all!!). . .

- Isotope Feeney
- April 2017