Clifton Chenier
Tipitina's
New Orleans, La.
May 2, 1981


Set 1
1 What am I living for? 3:24
2 I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) 6:42
3 6:06
4 Diggy Diggy Lo 5:36
5 6:24
6 High-Heeled Sneakers 5:03
7 4:43
8 Pinetop Boogie 3:36
9 4:30
10 (cut) 0:58
11 All Night Long (beginning cut) 7:34
12 I'm a Hog for You 6:36
13 Choo Choo Ch'Boogie 3:56
14 Last Date 1:12

66:28

Set 2
1 3:57
2 5:48
3 Big Mamou (guest vocalist) 4:23
4 4:21
5 5:28
6 Bon Ton Roulet 3:49
27:49



total time: 94:17



Source: unknown mics > unknown deck > TS's master cassette

Transfer (to DAT, circa 2001): cassette master > Nakamichi CR7A (playback head aximuth optimized) > Tascam DA-P1 DAT (A>D conversion) (coax spdif) > Digidesign Audiomedia III sound card > Macintosh G3/300 > Bias Peak 2.5.2 (trimmed, normalized) > Tascam DA-P1 > DAT

Transfer (to flac, August 2010): DAT > Sony PCM-R500 > (coax spdif) > Metric Halo MIO-2882 firewire interface > Macintosh MacMini (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > MIO Console 5.2.00.153 (record panel) > (44.1kHz, 16-bit split stereo/dual mono files) > firewire hard drive > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, see editing notes below, split into songs) > aiff/wav > xACT v1.71 (sector boundaries repaired, level 8 compression) > flac

Editing notes:
* The end of Track 10 and the beginning of Track 11 are faded
* 0.25 seconds of silence added after track 10 (which is cut due to a tape flip)
* 1 second of silence added after set1
* EQ applied using Bias Peak's Freq-4 plugin (-2 db cut at 212 Hz with a 2.0Q bell curve; -2.5 db cut at 680Hz with a 2.0Q bell curve.
* 1st set (Tracks 1-14) normalized by 0.7 db; 2nd set normalized by 4.0 db