Charlie Musselwhite
07/17/93
Blues Round Up
Santa Margarita, CA

Yamaha 16 Channel Soundboard; Sony TC-D5M (MA-110 Master) >CDR >FLAC
Cass Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M (Original Record Deck) >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Taiyo-Uden CD Masters >Audacity (Combine Tracks, De-Amplify, Re-Track, Minor Edits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

(Recorded, Transferred, & Tagged By OldNeumanntapr)


01. Hey! Miss Bessie
02. River Hip Mama
03. Movin' And Groovin'
04. Goodbye Don't Mean I'm Gone
05. Blues Why Do You Worry Me
06. She May Be Your Woman

Disc II:
01. Highway 51
02. Make My Getaway
03. Help Me
04. (She Used To Be Beautiful But) She Lived Her Life Too Fast
05. Roll Your Moneymaker
06. Band Intros
07. Encore Break

Encore:
08. Instrumental (fade out)


Charlie Musselwhite - Vocals, Harmonica
Andrew ‘Jr. Boy’ Jones - Guitar
Felton Crews - Bass
Tommy Hill - Drums, Vocals


OldNeumanntapr Notes-
The Blues Round Up was the big summer show of the SLO Blues Society, and this was the first one that I recorded. I had been working as a sound crew volunteer for about a year, and in exchange for helping transport the PA in my truck and setting up / tearing down I got to record some of the shows. Most of the time we had permission, though this time we did not. Musselwhite had his own FOH engineer so my friend Jack wouldn’t be running the board. I set up cables off the board during one of the previous sets (recordings of which have long since disappeared), and ran my D5 in a back pack under the board at the front. I had to crawl in and start the deck when the announcer came on stage, and then crawl back and flip the tape at 55 minutes. Fortunately it was dark and no one noticed. Unfortunately, two things occurred. One was that there was a technical problem at the very beginning of the set, after I had already started the tape, and a lot of time went by while the deck was running before the problem was fixed. I couldn’t pause it because I didn’t want to draw attention to myself so I just left the deck run. Because of this I lost the very end of the set when the tape ran out. I am uncertain if there was one encore or two, and since I wasn’t actively monitoring the deck I’m not certain of just how much I lost. (I edited out the first portion of the tape so the recording now starts right before Charlie comes on. If anyone is counting, the flip now comes in at around the 35 minute mark because I got rid of the first 20 minutes of ‘Dead Air’.) The other thing was that I had my friend set the board up to give me a stereo output before he turned the reins over to Charlie’s sound tech. Halfway through the set my nice stereo image turns to mono when the mix was readjusted. I didn’t notice this until I listened to the tape for the first time. In the early 90s the Blues Round Up shows were held outdoors in the parking lot of the beer distributor in Santa Margarita, and I can’t remember the exact name of the company. Santa Margarita is a ‘wide spot in the road’, having started life in the 1880s as the southern most end of the Southern Pacific coast route, before the mountains of the Cuesta Grade were tunneled through and the railroad reached San Luis Obispo. In later years the Blues Round Up was moved to the Paso Robles Hot Springs, further north.


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