Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration
February 4, 2011 (first night of three)
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA

early show
01 (introductions) 07:18
02 Margarita Margarita 04:31
03 Volver Volver 03:41
04 Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio 04:12
05 Viva Seguin 04:34
06 Open Up Your Heart 03:38
07 (Chris Strachwitz speaks) 06:41
08 (introducing Los Cenzontles) 00:45
09 Hermosisimo Lucero 02:14
10 (title?) 02:13
11 (intro to Voy Caminando) 01:10
12 Voy Caminando 02:56
13 (title?) 04:55
[sound crew was preparing stage - approximately six minutes of crowd noise was removed]
14 "no mouse music" 00:42.731
15 "make him welcome, Ry Cooder" 02:57
16 No Banker Left Behind 03:58
17 Goin' To Brownsville 05:04
18 Vigilante Man 8:44
19 Pink O Boogie 04:14
20 Wooly Bully 05:09
21 Dunkin' Bagel 05:08
22 Humpty Dumpty World 09:42

TRT 1h34m39s
Ry Cooder portion 45m44s

track 1 Nick Spitzer, John Leopold, Chris Strachwitz
tracks 2-6 Santiago Jimenez Jr. & La Familia Peņa-Gomez
track 7 Chris Strachwitz
track 8 Nick Spitzer
tracks 9-13 Los Cenzontles
track 14 Nick Spitzer
tracks 15-22 Ry Cooder & Co.

stealth audience recording by Easy Ed from 5th row

Beyerdynamic CK930 microphones > Naiant Littlebox (custom built preamp and phantom power supply) > Sony PCM-M10 (24 bit 44.1kHz)

USB cable > PC > Sound Forge 10 Pro (normalize by peak levels, reduce applause volume, convert to 16 bit [iZotope MBIT+ basic2 psych9 1 bit dither], export tracks to .wav files) > Trader's Little Helper (level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries) > flacs, ffp, md5 files