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Artist/Band: Mississippi Heat

Date: 2010-07-02 (Friday)
Title: Let's Make a Deal!
Venue: 31st Montreal International Jazz Festival - Loto-Quebec Blues Stage (corner St. Urbain & De Maisonneuve) - Outdoors - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Estimated attendance: 25,000
Weather conditions: 20° C - 45% humidity - 10-15 km/h winds - gusts of 25 km/h
Type: Open-Air Audience/Stealth
Source: CA-11 Cards > CA-9100 (1/8" inputs) + CA-14 Cards > CA-UGLY (1/4" inputs) > Zoom H4n @ 24 bit/48 kHz
Transfer: .WAV's > Audacity 1.2.6 (minor edits) > Wavelab Studio 6 (matrix) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (normalize) > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > .WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC
Recording location: 13 metres from stage, FOB, DFC
Sound Quality: EX, A-, 8.5/10 - Excellent sound quality.
Recorded by: Seth Meister
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Release date: 2010-03-25
All photos taken by Seth Meister and licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Band Members:
Pierre Lacocque - harp
Inetta Visor - vocals
Kevin Johnston - drums
Danny Draher - guitar & vocals
Stephen "The Kid" Howard - bass

Please support artists by attending concerts & purchasing their official merchandise:
http://www.mississippiheat.net/

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Setlist:
- Set One -
01 - Intro - 01:25
02 - Big Fun Tonight! (1) - 05:02
03 - Instrumental (with Band Intros) - 06:17
04 - Instrumental - 04:51
05 - Inetta Intro > Let's Live It Up! - 06:11
06 - Handyman - 05:04
07 - She Ain't Your Toy - 06:31
08 - Footprints On The Ceiling - 04:14
09 - Moanin' And Cryin' - 09:51
10 - Never Make Your Move Too Soon - 10:44
- Set Two -
01 - Intro - 00:59
02 - Instrumental - 06:05
03 - Instrumental - 04:40
04 - Blues For George Baze - 07:08
05 - Iko Iko (1) - 05:34
06 - That Ain't Love (with Band Intros) - 07:35
07 - Real Sad Story > - 06:56
08 - Why I Sing The Blues - 07:50
09 - These Men Look Good To Me - 07:48
10 - Instrumental - 07:51

(1) Danny on lead vocals

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Total Time: 2:02:46
Total .wav size: 1239.34 MB
Total .flac(5) size: 620.94 MB
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This is a seamless recording. Disc change is just a suggestion for those burning to CD.

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This Chicago band puts on a great blues show with a bunch of very talented musicians. About a quarter into their first set, Inetta Visor comes on to sing. As soon as she did come on stage, I immediately realized that I had seen them before, in 2002. She's lots of fun although I found her voice to be a little hoarse this time and she does mention something about her voice during their second set. That said, her talent is undisputed and she's just marvelous. The harp player, Pierre stands out throughout the whole show and the remainder of the band is absolutely rock solid. This was a great show and you're sure not to be disappointed with its big sound and great quality.

There was a certain electricity in the air that hot and muggy Friday night. Before the show, a few people sitting next to me were talking so much and so loudly that I was quite concerned. I very delicately mentioned to them that I would be recording and it would be greatly appreciated if they would perhaps refrain from talking during the show. They told me that it was really too bad as they are all enormous talkers and more likely than not would not stop for me. Then, one of the them said, "Perhaps if we could get a copy we'll keep quiet". I'm not a fan of blackmail but this was an easy request for me and I immediately jumped on the opportunity. I said "DEAL!", gave the guy my email address and to my enormous surprise and relief, they kept absolutely silent throughout the whole show. It was a rare moment.

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Fight the Loudness War! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
No compression was used in the post-processing of this recording to preserve it's dynamic range, listenability and authenticity.
This recording will naturally sound much better cranked up loud with quality headphones!
Peace & enjoy,
Seth