James Cotton Band/Janis Joplin:
Cotillion Ballroom, Wichita, Kansas
October 24, 1969

Source: Audience Master Reel @ 3.75ips
Lineage: Audience Master Reel @ 3.75ips -> PCM Beta (analog out) -> Tascam CD-RW700 (untracked CDR) -> Audacity (track indexing/wav conversion only) -> xAct (sbe correction) -> flac

Master reel transfered to PCM circa 1989
PCM initially transfered to CDR circa 2000 by Alan Bershaw
Alan's CDR tracked and converted to flac 9.23.2006 by Stu Hanson

James Cotton Blues Band:

1 unknown warmup jam 01:24
2 Heart Attack 03:42
3 Who's Loving You Tonight 03:42
4 Sweet Sixteen 07:35

James Cotton - vocals, harmonica
Luther Tucker - guitar
Bill Nugent - tenor sax
Bob Anderson - bass
Barry Smith - drums
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Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band

5. Raise Your Hand 06:19
6. As Good As You've Been 03:21
7. Take Me In Every Way Blues 08:57
8. Summertime 04:44
9. Kozmic Blues 04:35
10. Piece of My Heart 02:26
11. Work Me Lord 06:11

Janis Joplin - vocals
Snooky Flowers - baritone sax, vocals
Sam Andrew - guitar
Brad Campbell- bass
Richard Kermode - keyboards
Lonnie Castille - drums
Terry Clements - tenor sax
Luis Gasca - trumpet
guest: Luther Tucker - lead guitar on track 7

Notes:
Mesquite's recent posting of the Janis Joplin portion of this recording prompted me to check with professional archivist, Alan Bershaw, who has been collecting Janis recordings for decades. He had a digital copy of the actual master reel, which is what we now have here. He graciously provided me with his CD copy of the master reel. It just had a wave file for each set, so I tracked it out this morning. No signal processing has been performed. I simply loaded the two wave files into Audacity and divided tracks, fixed the sbe's with xAct and created flacs.

In the process of listening closely to this, I noticed a several things about Mequite's version that this copy will correct. First, the previous copy had the songs in a totally different order than the master reel. This copy is in the accurate order and additionally includes four tracks by The James Cotton Blues Band, who opened for Janis. These include great covers of Jimmy Rogers' "Who's Lovin' You Tonight" and B.B. King's "Sweet Sixteen."

Listening to Cotton's guitar player, Luther Tucker, makes me fairly certain that he is the guest guitar player on the blues track in Janis' set, NOT Johnny Winter.

Also, in the previous torrent, there were two tracks that were unidentified blues. They were both from the same song, just cut into two pieces when the previous version's tracklist got jumbled. The blues on this copy is not cut and runs continuously for almost nine minutes and includes those two segments. Somebody attempted to ID the two pieces and came up with "Port Arthur Blues" as one of the titles. This was mistaken, as this is a completely different tune. On Alan's notation, he has this blues labeled as "Take Me In Every Way," which he acknowledged was not confirmed, but makes more sense, so I'm going with his notation.

This still has all the other same reel stop/starts between songs as Mesquite's version and this isn't a great quality recording to begin with, but I think you'll find this to be a slight upgrade in sound quality since it's free of unknown analog generations. The rare song is uncut and this includes the entire reel, including the James Cotton material.

Oh, and one other correction here. On the previous torrent, "Kozmic Blue" was mislabeled as "To Love Somebody."

Enjoy! Stu