Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
2008-08-05
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Musikfest: Americaplatz

Taper: chadhogg
Zoom H-2 (internal mics) -> WAV -> Audacity (normalization, track splits) -> FLAC -> DAD

d1t01 Leave Me Alone*
d1t02 I Got To Find My Baby*
d1t03 I'm The Happiest Man In Town*
d1t04 Icicles In My Meatloaf
d1t05 Nobody' Fault But My Own
d1t06 I Need My Baby*
d1t07 You Should Have Stayed At Home*
d1t08

d2t01 I've Got To Check My Baby's Oil*
d2t02 Compact Man
d2t03 Work With Me Annie
d2t04 She Packed Up And Left Me*
d2t05 The Things That I Used To Do
d2t06 Midnight Come On Back To Me
d2t07 Learn How To Live*
d2t08 Life Isn't Everything I Thought It Would Be*
d2t09


* The titles to some tracks are my guesses based on their most frequent lyrics. I think they are original songs that have not yet been released.

Lil' Ed Williams - Guitar / Vocals
Mike Garrett - Guitar / Vocals
James "Pookie" Young - Bass
Kelly Littleton- Drums

Lil' Ed is not quite the vocalist that Frank Bey is, nor can he match the intensity of Tommy Castro's guitar work. However, he and his band put on a good, entertaining show. I believe this is the first time I have seen someone seriously playing a bass using only the tip of his thumb to pluck the strings. As befits this suboptimal technique, his playing was adequate but in no way remarkable. After being told they could play one song as an encore, the band decided to play two. In response, the festival cut power to the mains at 11:00 sharp. (When you've been successfully running a festival in the middle of a city for 25 years, I guess you have to take your committments to the city pretty seriously.) The band kept playing, and you can hear just the sound of the monitors and amplifiers on stage for part of the last track.

No known flaws, recording quality 7/10.