Gordon Smith
1968-07-31* _ London, England _ BBC Broadcasting House sub-basement _ Studio S1
"John Peel's Night Ride" programme _ (M1-FM)

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

DimeTravel British Blues BOOM! Series #17

01. Pearlie Blues
02. Worried Life Blues
03. Highway 51
04. Walking Blues
05. Rolling & Tumbling
06. --John Peel program outro--

Total Time ::: 14:48

::: VERY fine mono off-air radio broadcast. Check samples to try it on for size or for premature ***********.
::: Warts: Couldn't repair all dullspots&dropouts, but 'tis no longer an issue (IMO) - a few small hiccups, but sounds great.
::: 1968-07-31* is recording date. 1st broadcast 1968-08-14.
::: Complete session. Live in studio versions of 5 songs from his Blue Horizon album, "Long Overdue".
::: Each cut carefully compared to LP&CD bonus trax. ALL are quite different versions.
::: This session was sandwiched between album recording session dates in July & September.
::: Upload inspired by the rubber chicken in Gordon's left hand on the Blue Horizon front cover.
::: John Peel supposedly described Gordon as "The foremost white blues guitarist in the world".
::: Peel only had the 1st Night Ride hour in Aug '68.
::: Ron Geesin was other session artist on this program. Met him once - great bloke!

Recording Information ::: unknown receiver & reel-to-reel recorder -> off-air master mono reel -> 1st generation Maxell XLII-90 cassettes, Dolby B on.

Playback 2011-07-18 ::: 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 professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav file.

Remastering 2015-05-xx wav -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -2.5% pitch (speed) fix with single pass after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2015-05-30. (Reel was in rough shape, poorly stored & suffering from age, but managed to fix it it up real good... MANY 100s of repairs!.)

Line-up ::: Gordon Smith - acoustic guitar, vocals.

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

DimeTravel 132 ::: Thanks to the original taper & trader! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Many of you will know Gordon from the 3 Kevin Coyne Virgin albums he played on. While I do likes me Coyne, for me it was all about the Blue Horizon LP, something magic in them grooves. Of course, like a lotta folks, I glommed onto Gordon thru the Fleetwood Mac connection. Peter Green on the record? So what if it is only harmonica on 1 track - must have! Things went from there. The more captured I was by the UK country blues thing, the more fascinated I was by Gordon's Blue Horiszon era playing. I could never really wrap my head around Gordon's 2 Appaloosa albums, but this '68 era - something special. (PS - WHY did the Blue Horizon CD reissues have to be f*cking brickwalled & where is the rest of the archival material?). Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!