Ry Cooder
August 4, 2005
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA


soundboard > Sony TC-FX6C cassette deck (Maxell MX90 metal tape recorded with Dolby B on)

transfer: JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > BIAS Sound Soap > .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries

Recorded by Easy Ed.
This is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago. This is my master soundboard cassette.

disc one
1. Little Sister
2. Smack Dab In The Middle
3. Go Home, Girl
4. Things Can't Talk
5. You Better Have Jesus
6. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
TRT 41:13

disc two
1. Available Space
2. Goin' To Brownsville
3. Alimony (unexplained gap of just over 1 second in this song)
4. Money Honey
5. Down In The Boondocks
6. Why Don't You Try Me?
7. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
8. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
9. Never Make Your Move Too Soon
TRT 51:28

Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Jorge Calderon - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Bobby King - tenor vocals
Willie Greene, Jr. - bass vocals

Since the original recording was made with Dolby B on, which adds 10dB boost to the high frequencies, yet the playback was done without Dolby B on (which would have cut the high frequencies by 10dB) I took the liberty of applying some very slight noise (hiss) reduction using BIAS Sound Soap. If anyone wants the recording without this processing please contact me and I'd be happy to oblige. I usually am against offering original recordings with any processing but I was very light-handed here.

I also recorded Ry Cooder at the Cabaret on August 5, 1984. About half the songs they did were the same. That will be a separate torrent TRT just under 90 minutes.

The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco.

Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made (which I and many other people have). There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of that poster is long gone :<(