ARTIST: Joni Mitchell
TITLE: Down By The Mississippi River
DATE: July 7th, 1969
VENUE: Mississippi River Festival
LOCATION: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
SOURCE: SBD
QUALITY: A
ARTWORK: Included
TRACKLISTING:
01 Chelsea Morning
02 Cactus Tree
03 Night in the City
04 Marcie/Nathan La Franeer
05 Two Houses (Rainy Night House/Blue Boy)
06 For Free
07 Hunter (The Good Samaritan) STUDIO
08 Get Together (Dino Valenti)
09 Fiddle and the Drum
10 I Think I Understand
11 Both Sides Now
TOTAL RUNTIME: 56mins 22secs
LINEAGE: Boot LP -> Sound Forge 6.0 at 24 bit 96Khz -> click and crackle remover plus lite NR scrubbing ->Bit conversion to 16 bit ->Resampling to 44100hz (Noise shaping was applied to this and the previous process) ->Track Splitup ->FLAC via Flac Frontend Level 6, sectors aligned and verified>WAV>Cool Edit Pro v1.2>FLAC 6
TRANSFER/EDITING NOTES:
Here we have a nice recording of a wonderful Joni Mitchell performance from arguably the best period of her career. The recording, originally taken from an LP, is not perfect, as stated in the original torrent info, but certainly worth having. The first thing noticeable about the source recording is the scratchy LP noise. I did not use any noise reduction to try to remedy this, especially given that some lite NR was already used. Fortunately, the noise is not too distracting and for the most part is relegated to the left channel. Another problem with this recording is the fact that the sound quality is not constant, nor is the frequency response. Example: Tracks 1-4 sound relatively the same but after that, the frequency response and overall tone of each track changes constantly. Thus, it was a bit of a task as I had to master each track from scratch. I have attempted to maintain the quality of each track, while matching the sound of the tracks to each other. This process meant using fair to moderate amounts of equalization, amplification & channel mixing. In some cases, I have mixed out a little of the left channel and mixed into the left channel so much audio from the right channel. In these cases, the left channel either contained virtually the same information as the right channel with more noise, or the left channel was obviously superior to the left. At no time have I completely replaced the left channel with the right as I did not want to remove the stereo effect of the recording. Having said that, the stereo field has been altered on some tracks as to produce a clearer, less noisy sound. I hope the work I have done on this recording is appreciated and considered an upgrade, as it is in my opinion. Enjoy!
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*** HUGE THANKS TO DOINKER FOR THE ORIGINAL TRANSFER FROM LP AND UPLOAD OF THE SOURCE OF THIS RECORDING ***
*** THE SOURCE RECORDING CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=124513 ***
**** ORIGINAL TORRENT INFO ****
Joni Mitchell solo acoustic concert Mississippi River Festival 1969-07-07 stereo SBD "Red Book" 16 bit cd-burnable version
This torrent was converted to CD audio from the following, still active on the tracker:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=124183&hit=1
I strongly suggest that you read the comments section on that torrent, both as a tutorial and as a matter of extreme interest. Even if you don't take that version or this one, you should read it... preferably with a snack and a cup of coffee.
The following information came from Dime Site Mod Randall. I want to thank him for all the help and input.
JONI MITCHELL
Missippi River Festival
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, Il.
July 7, 1969
VideoTaped and later broadcast by NET-TV,
as "The SOUNDS OF SUMMER" on August 3, 1969.
(formerly identified as 30 November 1969, Los Angeles, PBS - TV)
(Doinker's note: Following is the tracklist of "Lennie And Dom Songs"."Urge For Going" was removed as it is a banned track).
01 Chelsea Morning
02 Cactus Tree
03 Night in the City
04 Marcie/Nathan La Franeer
05 Two Houses (Rainy Night House/Blue Boy)
06 For Free
07 Hunter (The Good Samaritan) STUDIO
08 Get Together (Dino Valenti)
09 Fiddle and the Drum
10 I Think I Understand
11 Both Sides Now
Urge For Going (REMOVED) STUDIO
"Hunter (The Good Samaritan)" and "Urge for Going" were originally on Blue. Here's my info file for that:
Joni Mitchell
Original "Blue" album.
"Original Coupling"
Reprise Records RST 2038 B
Digitally mastered direct from the Magtec Reel Tape.
In early March of 1971, the masters for Joni Mitchell's
latest project, an album called "BLUE", were sent by
Reprise to their record plants, and at least a few
reel to reel copies of the album were recorded
with the following song list:
1 Carey
2 Little Green
3 A Case of You
4 Hunter
5 Blue
6 California
7 My Old Man
8 Urge For Going
9 This Flight Tonight
10 River
But word came down before many reels were produced
that Joni had decided to recall the master tape
and substitute 2 new songs for 2 of the older ones.
The 2 songs deleted were "The Urge For Going",
which appeared in 1972 as the B-side to "You Turn Me
On, I'm a Radio", and "Hunter (The Good Samaritan)",
which has yet to appear on any record.
One final note: The quality of this stereo soundboard recording, while still not totally perfect (it's a bit bright), blows away any other renditions of this show that you might have heard. Runtime is just under 60 minutes.
Lineage: Boot LP -> Sound Forge 6.0 at 24 bit 96Khz -> click and crackle remover plus lite NR scrubbing ->Bit conversion to 16 bit ->Resampling to 44100hz (Noise shaping was applied to this and the previous process) ->Track Splitup ->FLAC via Flac Frontend Level 6, sectors aligned and verified.
Enjoy!
A DoinkerTape