Ry Cooder & David Lindley
August 25, 1990
French's Camp on the Eel River, Piercy, CA


01 intro by Wavy Gravy
02 Bon Temps Roulez
03 Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
04 Jesus On The Mainline
05 Vigilante Man
06 It's All Over Now
07 Old Coot From Tennessee
08 Mercury Blues
09 Billy The Kid
(tape flip)
10 The Bourgeouis Blues (beginning cut)
11 13 Question Method
12 Wooly Bully
(encores)
13 Oh Death
14 I'm A Hog For You Baby


stealth audience recording by Easy Ed sitting in a lawn chair with an umbrella clamped to the chair and the mike run up into the top inside of the umbrella, dead center about 40 feet from the stage. This was in the days when I thought that being at one point of a triangle, equidistant to both main speaker stacks, was the best spot to record from - I now believe that being very close to one speaker stack is ideal, especially if the PA is being fed a mono signal.

[record] Audio Technica AT853 microphone > Sony TCM-D6 portable cassette deck (mono two channels, Maxell XLII-S 100 high bias cassettes, Dolby B on)

[playback] JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (24 bit, normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > 16 bit .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding align on sector boundaries

When you record with Dolby B on it boosts high frequencies by 10dB, with the idea than playing back with Dolby B on will cut high frequencies by 10dB and in the process reduce hiss. In this case, since I played back with Dolby B *off*, we would expect a boost to high frequencies, which I deemed acceptable. You, the end listener, are free to apply noise reduction techniques however you choose - however, I would ask that this recording be circulated without any such noise reduction.