John Doe Folk Trio
The Music Box
Cleveland, OH
June 21, 2022
(JoeRay Master Series Volume 28)
16/44 Edition

Recording: DBA 4060 stereo mics > Sony M-1

Transfer: Master file > Adobe Audition CS6 > Ozone 9 > iZotope RX 8 > 16/44 > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 The Losing Kind
02 Never Coming Back *
03 Burning House Of Love
04 Tennessee Border
05 Down South *
06 (Now And Then There�s) A Fool Such As I
07 Cancion Mixteca
08 Love Shack
09 Traveling So Hard *
10 Poor Girl
11 After The Fall *
12 4th Of July
13 The Cowboy And The Hot Air Balloon *
14 I Only Have Eyes For You
15 Sweetheart *
16 My Darling, Blue Skies
17 New World / Revolution
18 The Golden State
19 Destroying Angels *
20 Everybody�s Talkin�

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We return to the JoeRay Master Series for Volume 28 with a brilliant quality capture of John Doe's Folk Trio at Cleveland's Music Box.

Joe Ray get a beautiful capture of a wonderful performance...we'll let Joe Ray fill in some of the details:

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John Doe returns to The Music Box in downtown Cleveland, OH on the banks of the Cuyahoga River on June 21st, 2022, the night of the summer solstice. John was touring to support his new recording, FABLES IN A FOREIGN LAND on Fat Possum Records; songs performed live from this recording are highlighted with an asterisk ***

John Doe is a punk rock pioneer with X, songwriter, poet, actor, solo artist, published author�and folk musician - with Fables in a Foreign Land. John Doe�s latest CD is now vividly set in a dusty desolate pre-Industrial Era. �All of these songs take place in the 1890s. There�s a lot of sleeping on the ground, a lot of being hungry, a lot of isolation. All of that fits into the kind of isolation and lack of modern stimuli that I think people started rediscovering during the pandemic lockdown: realizing that as parts of your life start getting taken away, what�s important and what you live for becomes paramount.�

Doe has a real claim to the title of renaissance man. In addition to his long career in music with X, Knitters, Sadies, and as a solo artist, he is a writer and a poet, and he has had an extensive acting career, appearing in films like Road House and TV series like Roswell. He edited the excellent essay collection Under the Big Black Sun, an oral history of L.A.�s punk scene.

I got to know John through Dave Alvin while traveling across America by passenger train with 'Roots On The Rails� traveling music festival from 2013 to 2018. During those trips, we�d live on a private vintage (1930�s) passenger train with 4 sleeping cars, a dome car, a diner and a concert car complete with a stage, lighting, professional soundsystem (and sound engineer), Neumann mics and Martin guitars. We�d often travel from LA to Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and back to LA while spending nights on the rails, sidings or in various towns while attending club gigs along the way for 14 to 20 days at a time. These trips for 50 or so guests allowed a musician to dig deep into their catalog and to join other artists in impromptu sets. My favorite involved John Doe joining Dave Alvin, Peter Case, Jon Langford, Christy McWilson, Rick Shea and David Onley. What a fuckin' train trip that was�

This night, John Doe also covered Dave Alvin�s �4th of July�, Pearl Jam�s �New World/Revolution�, �Golden State�, �Destroying Angels� and �Everybody�s Talking�. This was a wonderful performance that was all but sold out. The Music Box opened in 2014 and is a great venue in Cleveland to see any artist, performer or band. It holds about 600 and serves food and booze and has great acoustics without a bad table/seat in the house.

Joining John Doe on this tour is Chris Krebs on bass and Conrad Choucroun on drums. If you�re reading this or listening to my recording and you�re on the path of John�s tour, I would really encourage you to take in this show, especially if you haven�t seen him lately or ever.. If you�re a music fan, John is a major singer/songwriter, someone you really owe it to yourself to see, and you�ll enjoy seeing him, because he puts on a great show and is truly a class act, a first class songwriter and a tremendous human being.

This recording was made at 24 bit, 96 sampling with a Sony M-1, battery box and DBA 4060 stereo mics. I thank Dan Kennedy for making this recording possible.

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Thanks as always to Joe Ray for keeping the music alive and flowing, we have a number in the can to be released here and elsewhere.

mjk5510 and Joe Ray

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