Taj Mahal and Bassekou Kouyate
Royal Festival Hall
London, England
07/13/2014

Source: Audience recording > Audio Reality binaurals > Sony PCM-M10 > wav 24/96
Lineage: wav 24/96 > Adobe Audition 3 > iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced >
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Recorded from DFC, 3 rows behind the soundboard


Set I
Taj Mahal Trio

01 intro and tuning
02 Good Morning Miss Brown
03 Done Changed My Way Of Living
04 intro to next song
05 Going Up The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
06 Fishing Blues
07 Corrinna
08 banter/tuning
09 Tom And Sally Drake
Slow Drag


Taj Mahal - guitars, banjo, vocals
Bill Rich - bass
Kester Smith - drums

Set II
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba

01 intro, tuning and intro to first song
02 ???
03 ???
04 ???
05 ???


Bassekou Kouyate - ngoni, vocals
Amy Sacko - vocals
Madou Kouyate - bass ngoni
Mustafa Kouyate - percussion

Set III
Everyone

01 The musicians return to the stage/tuning
02 Poye 2
03 tuning
04 Zanzibar
05 intro to next song/tuning
06 Kulanjan
07 Queen Bee




Great performances from all, a standing ovation which was richly deserved and after they took their final bow, I never saw so many happy smiling faces on one stage.


recorded, edited and mastered
SIRMick
July 2014