Merle Haggard & The Strangers
Maritime Hall
San Francisco, CA
1997-05-16

Source: KNEW 910 AM mono broadcast ("All Kinds Of Country" on May 23, 1997) > ? > DAT via Ted Mattes
Transfer: Otari DTR-8S > Tascam DA-3000 > WAV @ 16/44
Master: Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, fades) > FLAC 1644

01. KNEW Intro
02. Frank Terry stage intro
03. Working Man Blues
04. Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
05. I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink
06. Mama Tried
07. Swinging Doors
08. Valentine
09. intro Manuel Brothers
10. Jambalaya
11. Jolie Blond >
12. Kern River
13. banter + intro Rose Maddox
14. Down, Down, Down *
15. banter
16. Shelly's Winter Love *
17. I'll Fly Away - Will The Circle Be Unbroken *
18. banter
19. Rainbow Stew
20. That's The Way Love Goes
21. Make-Up And Faded Blue Jeans
22. Oakie From Muskogee
23. California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
24. Band intros
25. Today I Started Lovin' You Again
26. Oakie From Muskogee outro
27. Frank Terry outro (rebroadcast)
28. Frank Terry full outro (original)

Merle Haggard - vocals
Biff Adam - drums
Eddie Curtis - bass
Norman Hamlet - steel guitar
Joe Manuel - lead guitar, accordion
Abe Manuel - fiddle
Don Markham - horns
Randy Mason - rhythm guitar
Bonnie Owen - vocals
* w/ Rose Maddox, vocals

If you've ever wondered how Oakie From Muskogee would play in San Francisco, here's your chance to find out. This appears to be the entire performance, which ran just an hour, although it's certainly possible that some of the show was edited out. There was a small dropout at the beginning of Kern River that has been made to vanish. Unfortunately, most of a verse is missing in Rainbow Stew with no good way to cross-fade it.

This is certainly an AM broadcast because there's no audio information about 10 kHz, which is about the limit of what AM radio could do, and it's also mono. From the DJ, Sully Roddy, we learn that this is a re-broadcast, on May 23, 1997, on Sully's show, All Kinds of Country (which is still on the air), of a performance on the 16th (confirmed by concert posters, etc.) that was originally broadcast on the 16th or perhaps the 18th. At the concert, Frank Terry MC'd live from the stage, and at the end of the recording we hear Frank's outro followed by Sully ending the re-broadcast. Then we hear the same audio of Frank, which goes on for a while waiting to learn that there won't be an encore, and then a different DJ ends what must have been the original broadcast. Why both endings are on this recording is not known.

Thanks to Ted Mattes for sharing his DAT!

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-12-26

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