Spider John Koerner with Chip Taylor Smith
1981-07-18 Northampton, Massachusetts Iron Horse Music Hall (M-SBD)

Set One :::
01. --Spider's set introduction--
02. Boll Weevil
03. Roving Gambler
04. The Ballad Of Bobo... (?)
05. When First To This Country
06. Jack Of Diamonds
07. I Ride An Old Paint
08. Everybody's Goin' For The Money
09. Chisholm Trail
10. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
11. John Hardy (Carried A Razor Everyday)

Set Two :::
12. Casey Jones
13. The Ship Titanic
14. Delia
15. Old Lady & The Devil
16. Careless Love
17. Black Jack Davey
18. Old Settler's Song (aka Acres Of Clams)
19. Skewball
20. ?
21. Ain't Got no Honey Baby Now

Total Time ::: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

::: EXC master SBD recording. Check samples to free up any worries or cares or take a few puffs of Spider's pipe.
::: Warts: Ain't none much to speak of. Surely I did miss some dull spots as I was a tad lazy & had had a beer or two.
::: Apologies if the tracksplits aren't optimal, but Spider tends to tune-up & wander into his songs...
::: Feel free to weigh in with the missing song titles or songlist corrections.

Recording Information ::: mono soundboard -> unknown cassette recorder -> master mono Maxell XLII-90 cassette, Dolby B on.

Playback 2013-05-19 ::: Master mono Maxell XLII-90 on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & speed adjusted (pitched!) for individual recording, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files) -> computer -> Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch / dropout / bump / pop / click / dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, NO equalisation) -> CD Wave (track splits) -> Trader's Little Helper -> yer ears. First uploaded week of 2013-05-25.

Line-up ::: Spider John Koerner - acoustic guitar (Epiphone 12-string?), harmonica, vocals // Chip Smith - fiddle, background vocals.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

CoolSonics 245 ::: Thanks to the original taper, Fast Freddie! ::: Corrections welcome ::: Aside from some assorted tracks on a compilation, I came at the Koerner, Ray & Glover thing kinda late, in the 80s, by way of Spider John, one of the long-time heroes of one of my music mentors, JD Smith. One thing's for sure, one of the coolest & weirdest hallucinogenic black & white amateur films I ever did see is a Spider John college production - it's really far out! Time to go & hoist a brew, so gotta be quick. If you dig, download. If you ain't sure, try one for size. Whatever yr pleasure, enjoy!

Kudos to Zongo for life support, Lochner for mikes&more & Fast Freddie for runnin' Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks. Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Dixon, Moore, Gough & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... Royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Parrish & all the traders who housed me thru my music acquisition & travel years. Hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Little Queenie (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. Glasses raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift. Thanks to the Mods for keepin' DIME alive. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees

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