The Jayhawks
Hop Juice Festival
Aurora, Illinois
June 2, 2012

Lineage: Sonic Studios DSM-6 mics => Sony M-1 DAT => WAV => FLAC front-end => WAV => Audigy Audio Cleaning Lab (for splitting tracks) => WAV => FLAC front-end (level 8)

Location of taper: about 50 feet from stage, in line with left stack. Mic stands 8 feet high.

A "samntuck" production

Track listing:

Disc one (52:52):
(1) Intro (4:04)
(2) Wichita (5:05)
(3) Cinnamon Love (4:27)
(4) Red's Song (4:10)
(5) Closer To Your Side (3:57)
(6) Take Me With You (When You Go) (5:48)
(7) She Walks In So Many Ways (2:39)
(8) Blue (3:54)
(9) No Place (4:42)
(10) Tiny Arrows (6:41)
(11) I'd Run Away (3:46)
(12) Clifton Bridge (3:33)

Disc two (53:41):
(1) Angelyne (4:10)
(2) Black Eyed Susan (5:35)
(3) Two Hearts (3:32)
(4) Miss Williams' Guitar (3:26)
(5) Band introductions (0:36)
(6) A Break In The Clouds (4:09)
(7) Settled Down Like Rain (3:16)
(8) Up Above My Head (3:20)
(9) Encore break (2:05)
(10) Tampa To Tulsa (4:46)
(11) How Can I Send Tonight (4:27)
(12) Waiting For The Sun (5:46)
(13) Two Angels (4:22)
(14) Bad Time (4:06)

Md5 signature file is included. Sorry, no artwork.

Comments:

Very nice audience recording from The Jayhawks' appearance at the "Hop Juice Festival" in Aurora, Illinois a few weeks ago. Sound is very good, with a solid mix and good capture of Mark and Gary's vocal interplay. Given that this is a festival show sponsored by a beer company, the crowd interference isn't too bad. This show features a nice, long (for the Jayhawks) 105-minute setlist that slightly expanded upon the set they've been performing for most of 2012.

As with most dates on this tour, the set is heavy on material from "Mockingbird Time" with some of their 1990s material mixed in. There are two songs from Mark's "Creekdippers" project that are so-so (IMO), but overall this is an enjoyable show. Great to hear "Clouds" in regular rotation in the setlist - I wish they would consider adding more material from the post-Gary era (currently 3 songs).

Many thanks to samntuck for sharing this with me, and by extension, with the extended Jayhawks fan base. Sorry that it took me a couple of weeks to get this torrent up.

Mp3 samples are included in the comments.