Joe Henry
City Winery, New York, NY
February 1, 2012

Audio Technica AT853 (mono) > Mintbox battery/filter module > Rockboxed iRiver H140 > Audacity > FLAC
Sony PCM-M10 onboard mics > Audacity > FLAC

I recorded with two separate recorders due to my H140 having malfunctioned the previous night; they both came out nicely so I decided to see how they sounded as a matrix. It was greater than the sum of its parts, so I decided to upload the matrixed version. One of the best recordings I've done, I think, in spite of a noisy venue.

Aside from the work done in the process of matrixing the two recordings, in Audacity I did two things. First, increasing volume on one of the two recordings. Second, making an attempt to reduce some audience noise. Second, because the seating in City Winery is very crowded together, my mics picked up one of my neighbors a little too well. I did some individual reduction of his handclaps etc. as well as some overall reduction of volume during the applause sections. (Lest you become annoyed at my neighbor's between-song enthusiasm as picked up by my mics, I'll mention that he and his friend knew I was taping and were very careful during the songs not to make noise with their glassware, and he refilled my glass a few times so I wouldn't have to move around with my mics on. Good people.)


Setlist:
1. Heaven's Escape
2. Heaven's Escape outro / Odetta intro
3. Odetta
4. Odetta outro / After the War intro
5. After the War (with just a smidge of Ol' Man River)
6. After the War outro / Sticks & Stones intro
7. Sticks & Stones
8. Grand Street intro
9. Grand Street (1)
10. Dark Tears intro
11. Dark Tears (2)
12. Strung intro
13. Strung
14. Tomorrow Is October intro
15. Tomorrow Is October (3)
16. Piano Furnace intro
17. Piano Furnace (1)
18. Deathbed Version intro / tuning
19. Deathbed Version (4)
20. Room at Arles intro
21. Room at Arles (5)
22. Eyes Out for You (with band intros)
23. Unspeakable
24. Lots of clapping
25. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Young/Washington/Crosby) (6)
26. The World And All I Know (6)
27. Ramblin' Round (Guthrie/Leadbelly) (7)

Joe Henry - Vocals, guitars
Keefus Ciancia - piano
David Piltch - upright bass
Jay Bellerose - drums

(1) with Levon Henry on tenor saxophone
(2) with Marc Ribot on acoustic guitar
(3) duet: Joe Henry on vocals/acoustic guitar & Marc Ribot on electric guitar
(4) with Marc Ribot on steel ukelele
(5) solo: Joe Henry on vocals/acoustic guitar
(6) duet: Joe Henry on vocals/acoustic guitar & Levon Henry on tenor saxophone
(7) with Marc Ribot on steel ukelele and Levon Henry on tenor saxophone

Bonus Material:
My recording from the night before was in large part a failure - much of the main set was obscured by static from an unknown source (interference, or a bad connection, I don't know). The good news is that only one song all night was different from this show, and I got a clean recording of it. I'm including it here because it was pretty unique and a lot of fun, and I'd hate for you all to miss out on it. It was the last song of the night, and was recorded with the H140 setup mentioned above (without the M10 in the mix).

28. Motel Blues (Loudon Wainwright) (8)

(8) with Loudon Wainwright on vocals