Ruthie Foster
5/4/2018 -
WWOZ Blues Tent,
Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans, LA
"2018 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival"
VGRM517

1. stage intro
2. Brand New Day
3. Stone Love
4. Ring Of Fire
5. Back To the Blues #
6. Richland Women Blues

Total: 25:11

cover tunes & their corresponding artists:
"ring of fire" - Johnny Cash, artist; June Carter Cash/Merle Kilgore, writers
"back to the blues" - Hadden Sayers, artist; Hadden Sayers, writer
"richland woman blues" - Mississippi John Hurt, artist; John Smith Hurt, writer

Ruthie Foster - guitar, vox
Larry Fulcher - bass, b.vox
Scottie Miller - keys, mandolin, b.vox
Brannen Temple - drums, percussion
Hadden Sayers - guitar, b.vox (#=vox)

This excerpt was broadcast on May 1, 2020, on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans.
This is from the FM broadcast, not the online stream.
"WWOZ Presents Jazz Festing In Place, 2020"

source: WWOZ-FM > Onkyo TX-TZ730 receiver > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (2nd generation) audio interface >
USB > MacBook Air (1.8GHz, Dual-Core Intel Core i5, OSX 10.15.3) > SoX > flac (44.1 kHz, 16bit,
level 8 compression) > iZotope RX 6 v6.00.1210 (trimmed, edited, normalized, split into songs) >
X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.49 (sector boundaries repaired, tagged, level 8 compression) > flac
recorded, mastered & shared by nolataper
nolataper's Editing notes:
--Left channel raised 16.47 db, right channel raised 17.54 db
--There was an abrupt edit near the end (during applause) of Track 4 (Ring). I applied a fadeout to the
applause & removed 43 seconds of station announcements. I faded up the applause when playback resumed.
* Editing notes: iZotope Spectral De-Noiser plugin used to reduce background noise (-20db)

Info research and additional editing by vanillag, 5/2020:
nolataper's flac files > Traders Little Helper > Sound Forge 14 > Traders Little Helper > flac
--repair DC offset; tweak balance; remove or reduce volume of DJ announcements; comb-thru and repair
broadcast dropouts manually; clicks removed; re-tagged.

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