Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

xx-xx-1969
Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor, MI
"Next to Last Night in Michigan"

This reel was only labeled 1969 Ann Arbor but you can hear them mention that they are at Hill Auditorium and it sounds like it may be from soon after the November, 1969 Canterbury House Ann Arbor reel that was seeded. The setlist and sound quality are very similar and they say that they have only one more night before they leave Michigan.

3 sets - stereo audience recording. See below for sound quality comments and samples.



Disc 1 - first set - 47:48

01 [01:22] talk & tune ups before first song
02 [03:18] Jambalaya (Hank Williams)
03 [03:53] What's The Matter Now?
04 [03:23] I'm As Free As the Breeze (Ernest Tubb)
05 [04:45] Good Rockin' Tonight
06 [02:48] Divorce Me C.O.D. (Merle Travis)
07 [03:11] Looking At The World Through A Windshield (Del Reeves)
08 [03:44] Crazy Arms (Ray Price)
09 [03:19] Hello Trouble (Buck Owens)
mic problems on one channel fixed
10 [03:07] Midnight Shift (Buddy Holly)
11 [04:19] Bon Ton Roulez
12 [04:05] Blues Stay Away From Me (Delmore Brothers)
13 [03:18] Hard Headed Woman (Elvis Presley)
14 [00:22] talk before last song of set
15 [02:06] Lost In The Ozone
16 [00:48] thanks & crowd

Disc 2 - second set - 56:01
01 [02:42] Truck Drivin' Man
02 [02:21] band intros by Billy C.
03 [03:25] Boppin' The Blues (Carl Perkins)
04 [04:01] Wine Do Your Stuff
05 [02:31] Cold Cold Town ?
06 [03:33] (I'm Gonna) Burn That Woman
07 [02:05] If You Want To Be My Woman (Merle Haggard)
08 [03:42] Long Black Limousine (Merle Haggard)
09 [03:00] The Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line (Waylon Jennings)
10 [03:39] Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
11 [03:11] A World of Misery ? (Cowboy Copas)
12 [03:37] Going Back to Tennessee
13 [03:48] Riot In Cell Block 9 (Elvis Presley)
14 [04:07] Smoke Smoke Smoke (Tex Williams)
15 [03:40] Shout Bama Lama (Otis Redding)
16 [00:23] talk
17 [03:20] Hello Josephine (Fats Domino)
18 [00:17] talk before last song of set
19 [02:15] Lost In The Ozone
20 [00:24] thanks & crowd

Disc 3 - third set - 79:00
01 [01:30] talk & tune ups before set
02 [02:46] When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
03 [02:54] Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Lloyd Price)
04 [03:04] When It's Springtime In Alaska(It's 40 Below) (Johnny Horton)
05 [03:58] I'm a Long Gone Daddy (Hank Williams)
06 [03:44] Mohair Sam (Charley Rich)
07 [04:53] fiddle instrumental
08 [05:23] Hoodoo Man Blues (Junior Wells)
09 [04:41] medley: Honey Hush - Flip Flop and Fly - Shake Rattle and Roll

10 [03:32] Goodbye Blues...
11 [03:48] Wine Take Me Away (Tommy Collins)
12 [03:05] Steel Guitar Rag (Bob Wills)
13 [03:36] Eyesight to the Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson)
14 [06:42] I Got A Rich Man's Woman (Muddy Waters)
15 [04:07] Big River (Johnny Cash)
16 [05:00] My Heart Would Know (Hank Williams)
17 [03:38] Hot Rod Lincoln [goes to mono at end of song and dual mono for rest of show]

18 [03:21] Rip It Up (Little Richard)
19 [02:43] talk > Lost In The Ozone
20 [00:41] final thanks & crowd before encores
Encores:

21 [03:06] Blue Suede Shoes
22 [02:23] Truck Drivin' Man (Dave Dudley)
23 [00:25] final thanks & crowd

Commander Cody, Billy C. Farlow, Lance Dickerson, Bill Kirchen, Andy Stein, Bruce Barlow and The West Virginia Creeper.


Andy Stein's girlfriend: second fiddle on disc 3, track 7
Unknown lineage stereo audience recording > 3.75 ips TDK LX 35\90B reel (probably 2nd or 3rd gen.)



Transfer: Teac X-1000R > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

There are level changes and dropouts which have been improved wherever possible but some rough spots remain. The overall sound quality is really decent though, and especially for an audience tape from 1969. Please check the samples to judge the sound for yourself.



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