Leo Kottke
May 1, 1985
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA

Based on the history of the way they did shows at the Cabaret and based on listening to this, I believe there were two shows that night and that I captured most of each.

soundboard > high end desktop Sony cassette deck > master cassette (Maxell UDXL-S 90 high bias tape recorded with Dolby B on)

transfer: JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > coax digital cable > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries

Recorded by Easy Ed.

I, Easy Ed, was at the show with my cassette deck connected to the soundboard - this is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago. This is my master soundboard cassette.

Any help with song titles would be appreciated. I didn't take the time to go thru my Kottke LPs, cassettes and cds and try to match up tunes and titles. Many of the instrumental tunes sound very familiar. Maybe someone else will go to that trouble. I already went to the trouble of recording the show (21 years ago) and transferring it and tracking it and uploading it.

disc one:
(early show)
1. (instrumental)
2. (instrumental)
3. (instrumental)
4. "A Corn Tyrant"
5. Wake Up!
6. Won't You Tell Me Why (?)
7. From The Cradle To The Grave (?)
8. "my own protoplasm"
9. I Owe It All To Pamela Brown
10. (instrumental)
11. (instrumental)
12. (instrumental)
13. Saginaw, Michigan
14. (instrumental)
15. The Love You Stole From Me (?)
16. (instrumental)
(encore)
17. My Father Has The Immune System Of A Vulture
TRT 1.08:38

disc two:
(late show)
1. (instrumental) (beginning cut, fade in)
2. (instrumental)
3. (instrumental)
4. (instrumental)
5. I Owe It All To Pamela Brown
6."glued to the guitar"
7. (instrumental)
8. (instrumental)
9. Eight Miles High
10. "a guitar I got from Dave Lundberg"
11. Saginaw, Michigan
TRT 43:27

disc three:
1. (instrumental)(beginning cut, fade in)
2. Little Martha
3. Echoeing Gilewitz
4. (instrumental)
(encore)
5. Louise
TRT 21:38


The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco.

Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made. There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of which is long gone :<(