Linda Ronstadt
Beacon Theatre, NYC
01 July 2004

OK, this one is from the Archives. I was going through some old files and this was almost there so we brought it over the finish line. Originally recorded to mini-disc, converted to the mac with Amadeus back in the day and now finished up as exported to flac with the current Amadeus Pro 2. Fingerprints created with xACT; Torrent file ands upload facilitated with Transmit.

This is a really nice standards based show with Linda singing great in front of an orchestra. The opening four tracks are Jimmy Webb the songwriter alone a the piano, telling a few stories and playing a few classics he wrote.


Lineup:
Linda Ronstadt with an orchestra.

I hope you Enjoy!

Tracks:
Jimmy Webb
01 What’s New
02 Being Johnny Cash
03 Highwayman
04 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Linda Ronstadt
01 What's New
02 What's Happening Tonight
03 Bewitched, bothered and bewildered
04 Someone To Watch Over Me
05 Straighten Up and Fly Right
06 It Never Entered My Mind
07 Get Out of Town
08 Never Will I Marry
09 Lush Life
10 It's too Soon To Know
11 Just One Look
12 Ohh, Baby Baby
13 Adios
14 Do What You Gotta Do
15 Telling Me Lies
16 Somewhere Out There-cut
17 cut- Blue Bayou
18 Desperado
19 Heart Like a Wheel


PS: Please Don't Sell This

PSS: For the inevitable requests;
I’m really sorry but I can’t offer other bit depths. There is only so much time in the day and I love to contribute music to this venue and hope that folks enjoy these shows too. So I put to the best of what I have and hope users will take a little effort to get the output files they need. It should be a one step process, I know it is with the Mac based software recommended below. I hope it is just as easy with the windows options.

On the Mac I think XLD is great; you give it a batch of files and it will out put pretty much what ever you need and will easily convert these 24bit flacs to 16bit AIFFs you can burn to CD. It will also allow you to clean up the metadata if you roll that way. Right click to apply to batch. While definitely worth a donation it is totally free, check it out. http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

For windows, I would love to hear more current suggestions but I have always heard great things about Traders Little Helper. http://tlh.easytree.org/ But I do not use it nor am I 100% sure that it will take a 24bit flac and give your a 16bit wav in one motion. I have also heard good things about http://www.foobar2000.org/ I also had http://www.voxengo.com/product/r8brain/ recommended as a straight bit conversion for free that will take what I gave and give you swell CD quality. GO!

As with all of this windows stuff all the same caveats apply - I don’t use it and have not tried it. Still I would continue to welcome any current confirmation or commentary to help make this note more helpful.

Thanks.