Charles Ford Band with Robben Ford
November 11, 1983
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA

soundboard > master cassette (Sony UCX-S 90 Dolby off) > cdr > EAC > FLAC level 8 encoding align on sector boundaries

Recorded by Easy Ed.

I (Easy Ed) was at the show with my cassette deck connected to the soundboard - this is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago. This is my master soundboard cassette. This is all I captured that evening. Record deck was probably a high end desktop Sony that I had in those days, the TC-K777. Mastered to cdr by Gary Klainer. In 1996 or 1997 I mailed the master cassettes to my buddy GK who mastered the recording to cdr via lineage unknown to me. I have extracted the audio from the cdrs GK sent me way back then.

disc one
1. Kiddeo
2. Look Over Yonders Wall
3. Self Preservation
4. All These Blues
5. Help The Poor
6. That Will Never Do
7. Killer Joe
8. Caldonia
9. Mojo Working
10. You Gotta Go

disc two
1. The Thrill Is Gone
2. Kiddeo
3. 40 Days 40 Nights
4. Look Over Yonders Wall
5. Killer Joe
6. All These Blues


The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco. This recording was made without the knowledge or consent of the Cotati Cabaret or its management.

Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the hippie days. SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made. There is a great poster of the O&ITW show - my copy of that poster is long gone :<(