Torrent title: Joan Baez and Mercedes Sosa - In the Bullring, Bilbao, 1988

Artists: Joan Baez, Mercedes Sosa
Plaza de Toros, Bilbao, Spain
1 July 1988

Description: FM broadcast by RTVE, 29 July 1988

Tracklist:
01 Intro (0:43)
02 [Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around] (0:19)
03 [No woman, no cry] (0:35)
04 [Farewell Angelina] (1:07)
05 [Llegó con tres heridas] (0:53)
06 [Yorima bokhim] (2:27)
07 [Diamonds & rust] (1:08)

tape pause

08 [Swing low, sweet chariot] (0:33)
09 Sleep, sleep tonight (beginning of introduction missing due to tape pause) (1:57)
10 Oh freedom (2:47)
11 band presentation > [Famous blue raincoat] (2:19)
12 Sólo lo pido a Dios (*) (beginning of introduction missing due to tape pause) (5:54)
13 Las manos de mi madre (**) (3:28)
14 Tengo tantas hermanas (**) (applause cut off due to tape swap) (2:51)
15 [El preso numero nueve (beginning of introduction missing due to tape swap)] (0:54)
16 Biko (4:19)
17 [Txoria txori] (1:22)
18 [Gracias a la vida (*)] (1:41)
19 Imagine > [Let it be] (4:47)
20 [No nos moverán] (1:14)
21 Here’s to you (2:36)

tracks in square brackets have been excluded to comply with DIME policy on official releases (see Notes)

Lineup:
Joan Baez vocals, guitar
(*) Joan Baez vocal, guitar ; Mercedes Sosa vocal
(**) Mercedes Sosa vocal

John Acosta cello
Begnat Amorena drums
Laythan Armor synthesizer, keyboards
Cesar Cancino piano
Jean Marie Ecay guitar
Jose Agustin Guereu bass
Costel Restea cello

FLAC fingerprint: diamonds.ffp

Source: FM broadcast by RTVE, 29 July 1988

Lineage: NAD 4220 tuner > Sony TC-W530 tapedeck > Sony HF60 cassette(s) > Sony TC-K511S tapedeck > Audigy 2 > 16-bit 44100 Hz wav > Cool Edit for track splitting and minor editing (fading; patching; see Notes) > TLH > FLAC level 6 > DIME

Notes: This concert was taped from a broadcast on Spanish radio (and TV). Part was also released as the LP (and later CD) “Diamonds and rust in the bullring” (which includes one further song from the concert that was not broadcast). The tracks used on the LP (in square brackets on the tracklist) have been removed from this torrent by fading them out (and back in), so that the (almost) complete concert could be reconstructed.

The tape was recently unearthed during a clearout. The torrent has been upped more to fill a gap in the historical record than as an audiophile experience, as the audio quality suffers in some parts from radio distortion – it is possible that someone with more experience than mine in using filters could upgrade it; please feel free. Track #13 has some short (c 2-sec) dropouts on the left channel that have been patched from the right channel.