Taj Mahal
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
1978-02-27

Source: KSAN FM Broadcast > C(2) from the 'teddy ballgame' archive
Lineage: Gen:2 maxell XL-II cassette > nak rx505 > edirol r09hr (24/48) > adobe audition > cdwav > r8brain > tlh flac 8 by ellaguru
Master: Wavelab 12 (tracking) > FLAC 2448

Thanks to Ted for collecting this tape and to ellgharu for transferring it and preserving the hi-res audio files

01. crowd
02. Move Up To The Country
03. Instrumental > Mailbox Blues
04. Queen Bee
05. Good Morning Miss Brown
06. Instrumental >
07. Hallowed Night
08. Baby You're My Destiny >
09. Sailin' Into Walker's Cay
10. Unknown
11. My Little Sugar Mama
12. Instrumental
13. Corrina
14. crowd

Encore:
15. Stagger Lee
16. Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
17. Fishin' Blues >
18. band intros >
19. Freight Train >
20. Dance Tune

Time for an upgrade!

This performance circulated on Dime around 2005 in 16/44, misdated as February 25. Advertisements from the period give the date as the 27th, though, as does https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/archiveComponent/430389335, which documents a set of four master reels that are unfortunately locked up at the Museum of Performance and Design. The advertisement notes an early and a late show, too, and it's not clear which one this is.

This is the same audio as in 2005, but at higher resolution. The sound is generally excellent, but this recording has some FM and analog hiss, cassette flips, and speed fluctuation as one might expect. There was also a monitor buzzing on the stage. Perhaps when the master tapes are sprung from jail, all of that can be fixed.

Back in 2005, the tracking and song titles weren't quite right, and they probably still aren't, but 20 years of Google and the URL from OCLC.org help a lot. Some of the song titles still seem made up, though, and the tracking is probably not perfect, either.

Enjoy this terrific performance!

--mhg :: 2026-04-24



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