J.J. Cale
1996-09-21 Northampton, Massachusetts Pearl Street Nightclub (M-AUD)

*~* Carefully remastered without EQ *~*

01. Cajun Moon
02. The Old Man & Me
03. Don't Cry Sister
04. Deep Dark Dungeon
05. If I Had A Rocket
06. Hold On
07. Ride Me High
08. Same Old Blues
09. I Feel So Bad
10. Anyway The Wind Blows
11. Sensitive Kind
12. Low Down
13. ...Everlovin' Woman
14. Mama Don't
15. Crazy Mama
16. After Midnight
17. Call The Doctor
18. Cocaine
19. Magnolia
20. Hard Times
21. Bringing It Back

Total Time ::: 1:26:47

::: Middle o' de road & sorta loud AUD but not too bad. Check samples to evaluate or commence levitation.
::: Warts: Tape was in EXC shape. Fair amount of AUD noise. #7 high level distortion ~30 seconds near start. Idiot whistler cuts loose a few times. #13 starts a bit late & rough from tapeflip. Musta missed a few dullspots but fixed what I heard.
::: Best-ever transfer & first-ever digital transfer from the master.

Recording Information ::: Sony D-6 portable tape recorder, single Sennheiser 300 microphone with shotgun shell (mono y-jacked into both channels) -> master Maxell XLII-S 90 cassette, Dolby off.

Playback 2011-12-07 ::: master Maxell XLII-90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby off, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL professional CD recorder -> CD-RW, no track splits -> computer -> EAC secure mode (logs made) -> wav files.

Remastering 2012-xx & 2014-05-xx ::: wav files -> 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 -.45% speed fix with single pass after spectral analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-05-03.

Line-up ::: John Weldon "J.J." Cale - electric guitar, vocals // Christine Lakeland - electric guitar, vocals // Don Roscoe Joseph III aka "Rocky Frisco" - keyboards, vocals // Jimmy Karstein - congas, percussion // Bill Raffensperger, then Timothy Lee "Tim" Drummond - electric bass* // James Cruce - drums, percussion // James "Jimmy" L. Gordon - harmonica. (Sounds like the band changes bassists at some point during the show).

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

DimeTravel 020 ::: Thanks to the original taper, Lochner! ::: Corrections welcome ::: A very solid performance & we get a couple of songs I don't have too many live versions of, but particularly pleasing is "The Old Man & Me" from "Okie". One of Lochner's weaker taping attempts, but directly related to stealth recording in a packed bar with a lot of unusually rowdy people for a JJ Cale show - standing, dancing & drinking & partying. Still it packs a pretty solid listenable punch. I just spent some more hours with it & the music is sublime. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

Support the artists and/or their families! www.jjcale.com -- www.lakeland.christinelakeland.com -- www.customharmonicas.com/james-gordon -- www.rockyfrisco.com

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