Ry Cooder and Special Guests
Wolfgang's
San Francisco, CA
March 19, 1987

This show was recorded by Russ Dugoni, who was there for the 3/18 show as well, and who tells us that the name for this group listed above was how it was presented on those evenings. This band is alternately known to have been named The Moula-Banda Rhythm Aces.

Lineage:
Maxell XLII90 cassette masters recorded with no dolby on a Sony Walkman D6, most likely with a Sennheiser MD441 external mic.
Played back on a Nakamichi DR-1 with no dolby, transferred as 24 bit > Audition (levels adjusted, track splits, fades; downsample to 16 bit) >
TLH (FLAC Level 8; .ffp) > foobar2000 (tags)


Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals
Miguel Cruz - percussion
Steve Douglas - saxophone
George Bohannon - trombone
Jorge Calderon - bass
Flaco Jimenez - accordion
Jim Keltner - drums
Van Dyke Parks - piano, keyboards

Singers:
Bobby King - baritone
Arnold McCuller - top tenor
Terry Evans - tenor
Willie Green, Jr. - bass


Playback is continuous, aside from tape flips. Suggested splits for burning:

Disc 1
01 Show Time 1:43
02 Little Sister 4:17
03 Smack Dab In The Middle 5:50
04 Go Home, Girl 6:54
05 Let's Have A Ball 7:27
06 If Walls Could Talk 8:41
07 Jesus On The Mainline 5:31
08 "We thank you for paying money to come in tonight." 0:46
09 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? 10:06
10 One Meat Ball 5:49

Disc 2
11 Down In Mississippi 7:22
12 Teeny Weeny Bit Of Your Love 4:27
13 Why Don't You Try Me 5:20
14 The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) 6:36
15 Tuning 0:35
16 Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) 7:31
17 Instrumental 5:21
18 Chain Gang 5:22
19 Down In Hollywood 11:21

Total Time: 1:50:58