Mavis Staples at Blue Hills Pavilion, Boston, MA, July 14, 2016, incomplete audience recording.

This was recorded with Zoom H2 with internal mics, on the medium mic gain setting. H2 lined into computer by USB, wav sent to Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 12. Magix program was used for track markings, and before show noise removal. Flac created with Trader's Little Helper, SBE and torrent work also done with TLH.

Track listing:
01 - stage chat
02 - Love And Trust
03 - stage chat
04 - Freedom Highway
05 - Touch A Hand, Make A Friend
06 - Dedicated
07 - stage chat
08 - I'll Take You There

I'd rate the sound quality on this a probable A-. You can hear heavy winds throughout, and I accidentally recorded this whole set on the medium mic gain setting, where I usually would opt for low mic gain. It doesn't suffer for it, though. I was about ten rows behind the soundboard, towards the back of the big tent. The people around me were mostly pretty quiet. If it wasn't already obvious, Mavis was opening for Bob Dylan. I will get that rolling as soon as I can.

I would like to say the taping gods are cool. I bicycled from the train station to this event, and saw that they were using detector wands. I rode around, freaking out about where I was going to stash my recorder, and then I had a good idea. I went over to the search guys and asked if I could bring "this" (Zoom H2) in. The guys said "what is it", I said a recorder, and they said "make sure you come through this way, and we'll make sure you get in". One of them related to me how he also used to record every show he attended.

Don't sell, try not to circulate as lossy. Enjoy!