Dave Kelly
1968-09-13* London, England BBC Maida Vale 5 Studio John Peel's "Night Ride" programme (M1-FM)

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing many issues, without EQ ~*~

DimeTravel brings you "British Blues BOOM! Volume 01"

01. ...Few Short Lines (conclusion/fragment only)
02. Arkansas Woman
03. When You've Got A Good Friend
04. interview
05. Hard Times
06. Traveling Blues

Total Time ::: 15:59

::: VERY fine mono radio broadcast recording. Check samples to cop a feel or to lose yr first (last?) few marbles.
::: Warts: #1 cuts in near the end. Hint of distortion thruout. Fixed 100s o' dullspots but surely missed a few.
::: 1968-09-13* is the actual recording date for the session. It was first broadcast on 1968-09-18.
::: EXQUISITE solo set from Dave, who had already joined the John Dummer Blues Band at the time. 16 heaven-sent minutes.
::: Right after "Blues Like Showers Of Rain" came out, just before "Me & The Devil" was recorded & well before Dave's stupendous 1st solo LP "Keeps It In The Family".
::: If you are a person who has the complete first song (regardless of quality), please get in touch. Likewise, more Night Rides, Top Gears, etc from this era. I will honor & repair them, transfer them if need be - whatever - would just love to hear more.
::: Too bad a "Few Short Lines" cuts. I also have the show from July where Peel had just gotten the song in on LP for the first time & plays it & is clearly quite knocked out by it. Then 2 months later he had Dave on the show. How it would be lovely to hear the entire history of Night Rides in sequencial order! One has the feeling life would fall into some kind of perfect order & many mysteries explained.
::: Usually I put track markers directly before music, but here, hey(!), it's Peel doing intros, plus there's a tad of voiceover, so you get the lot.

Recording Information ::: off-air broadcast -> unknown mono reel recorder -> master mono reel -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2011-07-xx ::: 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassettes on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, further pitch (speed) fixes single pass per segment after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-04-xx.

Line-up ::: Dave Kelly - acoustic guitar, vocals. (plus His Honor John Peel - moderation)

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 112 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Well, I've been over the moon for Mr Kelly since I first heard Tramp, then I got blown out by the John Dummer Blues Band, and at long last, when I managed to track down his first two solo albums, I locked the guy in for Brit Blues sainthood. This fantastic set does nothing but reinforce those sentiments. The acoustic solo mode makes for a real fine contrast to the 1970 Dave Kelly & His Band BBC Raven set that was up here previously. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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