Willie Nelson & Family
Irving Plaza, NYC, NY
23 January 2002

This is another set from the vault. Recorded to mini-disc back in the day and recently rerecorded over to hard drive from the original MD. Then cut into tracks, volume boosted and exported to FLAC with Amadeus Pro 2. Fingerprints created with xACT; Torrent file ands upload facilitated with Transmit.

This remains one of the greatest shows I have ever seen. Willie just did not want to stop playing and all in played Whiskey River three times over the course of the night, in a show that ran in total over three hours. I’ve got about 2:40 of it here, I was loosing track myself toward the end. Anyway, there are 48 tracks included herein and covering about 55 songs, with the medleys counted.

Lineup:
Willie Nelson - Guitar & Vocals
Bobbie Nelson - Piano
Jody Payne - Guitar
Jackie King - Guitar
Mickey Raphael - Harp
Bee Spears - Bass
Paul English - Drums
Billy English - who knows what
there is also a horn player but I can’t find the name just now but it is on the tape.

I hope you Enjoy!

Tracks:

Whiskey River -> Stay A Little Longer
Good Hearted Woman
Time Slips Away -> Crazy -> Nightlife
Down Yonder
Workingman Blues
Help Me Make it Through the Night
Me & Bobbie McGee
Me & Paul
If you've got the Money
Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain
Under the Double Eagle
Blue Skies
Georgia
All of Me
Stardust
Mama's Don't Let your Babies Grow Up To be Cowboys
Angel flying Too Close to the Ground
One the Road Again
Always on My Mind
Will The Circle Be Unbroken -> I Saw The Light
Seven Spanish Angles
All the Girls I've Loved Before
Luckenbach, TX
Whiskey River (Redux)-cut
cut-Still is Still Moving to Me
Milk Cow Blues
Pancho & Lefty
Nuages
Ou Es-Tu, Mon Amour? (Where Are You, My Love?) - I Never Cared For You
Move It on Over
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
Jambalaya
Hey Good Lookin
Just Dropped In
The Great Divide
Sweet Georgia Brown
Rainbow Connection
The Thirty-Third of August
Shotgun Willie
I Gotta Get Drunk
Pick Up The Tempo
Hello Walls -> One Day at a Time
Whiskey River
Till I Gain Control Again
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms -> Mountain Dew
Outro...w-Happy Birthday
Truck Driving Man
Final Outro


PS: Please Don't Sell This

PSS: For the inevitable requests;
I’m really sorry but I can’t offer other bit depths. There is only so much time in the day and I love to contribute music to this venue and hope that folks enjoy these shows too. So I put to the best of what I have and hope users will take a little effort to get the output files they need. It should be a one step process, I know it is with the Mac based software recommended below. I hope it is just as easy with the windows options.

On the Mac I think XLD is great; you give it a batch of files and it will out put pretty much what ever you need and will easily convert these 24bit flacs to 16bit AIFFs you can burn to CD. It will also allow you to clean up the metadata if you roll that way. Right click to apply to batch. While definitely worth a donation it is totally free, check it out. http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html

For windows, I would love to hear more current suggestions but I have always heard great things about Traders Little Helper. http://tlh.easytree.org/ But I do not use it nor am I 100% sure that it will take a 24bit flac and give your a 16bit wav in one motion. I have also heard good things about http://www.foobar2000.org/ I also had http://www.voxengo.com/product/r8brain/ recommended as a straight bit conversion for free that will take what I gave and give you swell CD quality. GO!

As with all of this windows stuff all the same caveats apply - I don’t use it and have not tried it. Still I would continue to welcome any current confirmation or commentary to help make this note more helpful.

Thanks.