Taj Mahal
Ben & Jerry's One World One Heart Festival
Sugarbush, VT
1994-06-26

Source: Sony ECM-909a > WM-D3 > MC by Rob Robles
Transfer: MC (XLII-100) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
Master: Wavelab 10 (levels, remove DC offset, x-fades, DDI-Codec / Dolby B @ -32 dBFS, tracking, resample, MBit+ dither) > FLAC 1644

Thanks to Rob Robles for the cassette and to Mr. Zeau for the song titles.

01. // Instrumental
02. Freight Train
03. Stagger Lee
04. Dust My Broom
05. Blue Light Boogie Intro >
06. Blue Light Boogie
07. Big Leg Mamas Are Back In Style Again
08. Fishin' Blues
09. Cakewalk Into Town intro >
10. Cakewalk Into Town
11. Sitting On Top Of The World
12. Corrina Corrina
13. C.C. Rider
14. Encore MC

Encore:
15. It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion >
16. Statesboro Blues

Tape flip at the beginning of Corrina Corrina cross-faded. Levels were also low during the song, which was acoustic. A somewhat chatty crowd is audible at times, but Taj is solid.

The One World One Heart Festival was rumored to cost the company $1 million. The July 3, 1994, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader reported:

The company won’t release the cost of the “One World One Heart Festival” held at a ski resort a few miles from its headquarters in Waterbury, Vt. But it paid for 20 entertainers, including top names Bo Diddley, The Band, Michelle Shocked and Taj Mahal, as well as free ice cream for all stockholders.

Public relations czar Rob Michalak said the festival typically attracts 40,000 people over two days. While enjoying arts, crafts and vegetarian fajitas, festival-goers were urged to recycle, send post cards to congressmen and pay more attention to issues affecting children.

All food vendors used compostable material. The crowd, which attracted an equal number of hippies, gray hairs and Generation X-ers, was mellow and muddy, thanks to sporadic rainfall.

T-shirts beseeched: “Believe In Yourself.” “Hug the World.” “Break the Silence.”

A slogan on one of the inflatable sculptures hovering over the ski slopes summed up the Ben & Jerry philosophy: When you meet God be prepared for two questions. "What did you do for my children and did you have fun?”

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2021-12-24