Susan Cowsill & Friends
Harrah's Louis-Louis Pavillion Stage
French Quarter Festival
Woldenburg Park
New Orleans, La.
April 11, 2010




1 Dragonfly 2:08
2 River of Love 6:14
3 Just Believe It 5:52
4 2:36
5 Mississippi 5:12
6 The Rain 5:05
7 4:38
8 4:00
9 The Rain, the Park, and Other Things 3:30
10 # 3:03
11 5:21
12 Crescent City Snow 8:54
56:39

(total is 72:23; 15:44 of talk)

# features band bassist Mary LaSang on lead vocals.


fm source: WWOZ-FM > Onkyo TX-SV535 receiver > Metric Halo MIO-2882 firewire interface > Macintosh MacMini (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > MIO Console 5.2.00.153 (record panel) > (split stereo/dual mono files) > Logic Pro 7.2.3 (trimmed, bounced to stereo wav) > aiff/wav > Bias Peak 6.2.0.21692 (normalized, split into songs, see editing notes below) > aiff/wav > xACT v1.71 (level 8 compression, sector boundaries repaired) > flac (Not normalized; peak is about -1.4 db)

mp3 source: wwoz.org 128kbps mp3 stream > XstreamRipper v1.1.4 > captured mp3 stream > iTunes 9.1.1 (converted to aiff) > very large aiff/wav > Bias Peak 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed) > spliced into the recording above. (See notes below)

NOTE: This recording was marred by incessant talking by DJs after nearly every song. Fully 20 percent of the recording was ruined by the WWOZ DJs. The show hosts talk for a minute or two after most songs and then fade in the song that is already under way.

For this archive, the DJ's talking was edited out but preserved as Track 3B, which follows Track 3, for example. The full recording to be restored by adding these tracks back.


Editing note: There were also a number of dropouts in the FM signal due to longtime transmitter problems. The dropouts were repaired with splices from the mp3 streaming audio source:

* 2.2-second splice at 18 seconds into Track 4.
* 2.2-second splice at 3:37 into Track 6
* 6.8-second splice at 2:03 into Track 9
* 4.2 seconds at the beginning of Track 11
* 3 seconds about 2:39 into Track 12.
* 3.3 seconds at 6:54 into Track 12
* 9.2 seconds at 7:49 into Track 12 (including 3.5-second crossfades into and out of the splice)

Dropouts were not repaired in the tracks that only feature DJ yakking.