NEW GRASS REVIVAL
Mountain Stage
Charleston, WV
29 January 1989

Pat Flynn - guitar
Bela Fleck - banjo
Sam Bush - mandolin, fiddle, vocal
John Cowan - bass, vocal

--First Segment--
1. Do What You Got To Do
2. band intros
3. Baton Rouge
4. Metric Lips
--Second Segment--
5. This Heart Of Mine
6. Hold To A Dream
7. Let's Make A Baby King
8. Can't Stop Now


-- Source/Lineage Info --
Original recording (29Jan1989):
FM broadcast (WMUB Oxford, OH) > MCS Receiver > Nakamichi CR1A >
Maxell XLII 90 Cassette

Digital Transfer (ca. 2001):
XLII 90 Cassette Master > Nakamichi CR1A (same deck that was used for recording) >
Marantz DR700 > Audio CDR

FLAC Encoding (3Nov2006):
Audio CDR > EAC (secure mode, no errors) > HD > WAV > FLAC Frontend v1.7.1 (verified and aligned on sector boundaries) > FLAC
(There were no SBE found with Trader's Little Helper or FLAC Frontend)


Notes:
Pulled this one down from WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH back in 1989 when I was
living blocks away from their transmitter tower, which might have something to do
with why this recording sounds so hot. It isn't over saturated, but it is pretty loud.
I transferred the original master cassette to disc on a standalone sometime in 2001.
Track markers had to be inserted on the fly. I must have mapped it out in advance
because they seemed to be well-placed when I listened to it the other day. I recently
decided to make a 'proper' lossless archival copy to share here.

The Mountain Stage show back then usually had three or four guests (or groups) per
show, and they each performed twice during the program. This recording represents
both of the New Grass Revival segments in their entirety. Nearly all of the banter
by the show's host immediately before and after the segments has been edited out,
most by way of the 'pause' button during the original recording. I recall that I did
this in order to fit as many performances as I could on a 90 minute cassette tape.
I never recorded a complete show, but instead would pick and choose the artists
that interested me at the time.

The date above is the broadcast date. I believe the Mountain Stage shows were
recorded in advance and not broadcast live, but I could be mistaken. The other
artists that appeared on this particular date were Peppino D'Agostino and Norman
& Nancy Blake. The Blakes' performances can be found in a separate torrent here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=119997
(I suggest you check that one out, too!)

This recording catches NGR roughly four months before the release of their
final studio album, 'Friday Night In America'. The material is split between
that album (Do What You Got To Do, Baton Rouge*, Lets Make A Baby
King), and the album that came before, 'Hold To A Dream' (Can't Stop Now,
Metric Lips, Hold To A Dream), along with one oldie (This Heart Of Mine)
from their 'Fly Through The Country' album. This is a nice document of later
period NGR - by the end of the year, they would call it quits. The sound of
the recording is pretty strong overall. There is a two second dropout at :27
of track 1 which is on the master cassette. I don't believe there are any other
flaws serious enough to mention.

(*Baton Rouge appeared on the album as 'Callin' Baton Rouge' but Flynn
identifies it as 'Baton Rouge' here, so I've used that in the track list.)

There have been quite a few 'Live From Mountain Stage' compilation CDs released
commercially through the years, but dilligent searching of these titles revealed that
none of the material in this torrent has ever been available commercially. If you know
this to not be the case, please let me know, and I will make the necessary adjustments
to this seed.

Recorded, transferred, remastered, and converted to FLAC by quimiqua.
Uploaded to Dime on 6 November 2006.