Fine recording of Prine and Dement, apart and together. Crowd interference is minimal and applause has been seamlessly balanced.
Defect: Overall sound is not magnificent, but clean and enjoyable.

JOHN PRINE & IRIS DEMENT
London, UK -- Festival Hall
2000-01-15 -- 170:21

Iris Dement: (47:28)
01. -MC intro, applause-
02. Sweet Is the Melody
03. -talk-
04. These Hills
05. Let the Mystery Be
06. -talk-
07. Walkin' Home
08. -talk-
09. Living on the Inside
10. When My Morning Comes Around
11. The Way I Should
12. Easy's Getting Harder Every Day
13. -talk-
14. Mama's Opry
15. -talk-
16. Our Town

note:
t16: last half has breaks and is generally rough


John Prine: (63:34)
01. Spanish Pipedream
02. Six O'Clock News
03. -talk-
04. Souvenirs
05. Fish and Whistle
06. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
07. -talk-
08. Far Far from Me
09. Picture Show
10. All the Best
11. Angel from Montgomery
12. Dear Abby
13. Jesus, The Missing Years
14. That's the Way that the World Goes 'Round
15. Donald and Lydia
16. -talk-
17. Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian
18. Sam Stone


note:
t04: by Steve Goodman
t13: music ends cut; gap removed before applause

John; some tracks with Iris: (59:19)
01. -talk-
02. Milwaukee Here I Come
03. -talk-
04. (We're Not) The Jet Set Lyrics
05. -talk-
06. Let's Invite Them Over Again
07. -talk-
08. When Two Worlds Collide
09. -talk-
10. In Spite of Ourselves
11. Bear Creek Blues
12. Ain't Hurtin' Nobody
13. -band intro-
14. Sins of Memphisto
15. Lake Marie
16. -applause-
17. Unwed Fathers
18. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
19. -talk-
20. Paradise

note:
t02, 04, 06, 08, 10, 17, 18, 20: w/ Iris Dement
t02: by Bobby Braddock
t06: by George Jones (lyrics), Wheeler (music)
t08: by Roger Miller and Bill Anderson
t11: removed tape flip during applause
t16: break removed

musician for Iris Dement set:
Iris Dement - vocals, guitar, keyboards
musicians for John Prine set:
John Prine - vocals, guitar
Jason Wilber - lap steel, mandolin, guitars, harmonica
David Jakes - bass

Discs will combine perfectly for longer media.

No artwork.

Thank you to Pete in Bournemouth for the recording and
Brian W (AKA Staffy)for the flacs.
Supplied mic -> Aiwa HS-F150 (analogue cassettes).
Transferred, tracked, and converted to flac; details unknown.

Mastered by stevemtl and posted to DIME 2014-05-19:
received flacs -> TLH (wav) -> Soundforge: (combine wavs, dither to 24 bit, edit, fades, eliminate cassette flips, L2 level balance, dither to 16 bit)-> CDwave (track cut) -> TLH (flac8, ffp, md5) -> TLH (torrent).

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