Elvis Costello 2006 Oct 06
(solo & with the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods)
Banjo Stage, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
with guests Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Fats Kaplan

stealth audience recording by Easy Ed
Oade Brothers miniature microphones > Sony D8 DAT @48kHz (with microphone preamps modified by Oade Brothers) > Sony PCM-R500 (playback) > coax digital out > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sequoia 7.22 (24 bit) > Sound Forge 8 (resample to 44.1kHz, normalize, fade in and out, track markers) > .wav files > FLAC

Musicians

* Elvis Costello
* The Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods:

Bill Kirchen (guitar)
Davey Faragher (bass)
Austin de Lone (piano)
Pete Thomas (drums)

* Emmylou Harris (vocals)
* Fats Kaplin (mandolin, violin)
* Gillian Welch (vocals)
* David Rawlings (guitar, vocals)

Setlist

(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes - Elvis solo
The River In Reverse - Elvis solo
Radio Sweetheart / Jackie Wilson Said - Elvis solo
God's Comic - Elvis solo
Pads, Paws And Claws
The Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
Good Year For The Roses
Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down > The Last Town I Painted
Indoor Fireworks
Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods - Bill Kirchen vocal
Monkey To Man
Country Darkness
Loser
Satisfied Mind - Austin de Lone vocal
Take It Or Leave It
Mystery Dance / Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)?
I Still Miss Someone - with Emmylou Harris & Fats Kaplin
Love Hurts - with Emmylou Harris & Fats Kaplin
American Without Tears - with Emmylou Harris
Must You Throw Dirt In My Face - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Mystery Train - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
(encores)
There's A Story In Your Voice > (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
The Scarlet Tide - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
When I Paint My Masterpiece - with Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings



Since I arrived at the concert late, I missed the Emcee's introduction and the first half of the first song. The levels vary a bit during the first song, but from there on out the recording is pretty smooth. There was a drunken stumbler passing back and forth of me several times clouding the sound and even bumped my mikes once. Oh well.

Disc one ends with the first twenty or so seconds of Mystery Dance, fading out; disc two begins with the applause at the end of Take It Or Leave It fadeing in - to reconstruct the concert as one continuous file, omit disc one track 15 and disc two track 1)