Leon & Mary Russell w/Eric Clapton
Leon's Home-Tulsa, OK
August 1974

Lineage: Jamie Oldaker Reel > 1st Generation > 2nd Generation > Akai GX-R60EX > Cool Edit Pro (Track indexing/minor edit only) > CDR > Flac

01 Fallin' In Love Again 5:36
02 Fallin' In Love Again (breaks down) 1:11
03 Meet Me (Down In The Bottom) 7:33
04 Unknown Jam 5:15
05 Paint It Black (Instrumental) 7:10
06Tuning & Chattin 1:58
07 Unknown Jam (Help Me Jesus Jam?) 9:11

First off, I want to give credit and thanks to DocTinker for the encouragement to get my known lineage of this set out there, after talking to him, he agreed if there is an upgrade available to his wonderful torrent let's gt it out there as soon as possible.

This version came from a guy I knew in Oklahoma City that lived with Jamie Oldaker for a time in Tulsa and generously gave me copies of what he had gotten from Jamie's reels.

I have no idea if Oldaker's copies were masters or master dubs, I do not want to start a big debate here that I've seen happen too many times and I got Doc's blessing and encouragement to upload my known generation.
This has substantial less hiss which makes for much cleaner and brighter instruments/vocals, there is still a bit of hiss due to the 2nd gen but it is very slight in my opinion and is a nice upgrade.

There was some debate on Doc's torrent about the song tiles, I've pretty much listened to this through and first off I guarantee the first song is not called "I Found Love" as named by the bootleggers on the version listed on Geetarz's great website. I've come to the conclusion more than likely the title is "Fallin' In Love Again", sounds like a chorus and sung multiple times.

I've also decided that Track 3 is a combination of Doc's title and the title by the bootleggers found on Geetarz's website, there is an outtake on "421 Ocean Boulevard Deluxe Edition" release called "Meet Me (Down In The Bottom)", the structure is very similar on this set albeit a bit looser.

As stated on Doc's torrent, Track 4 has very low vocals by Mary and you can just about make them out on this version but they are really low and I just can't quite get there so I'm sticking with "Unknown Jam".

I've also stuck with Unkown Jam on Track 7, though Clapton does sing "Help Me Jesus" numerous times so it could very likely be called that, but I"m not convinced it is nothing more than a loose jam that Clapton chose to sing that line.

I've done nothing to the raw tape I had except take out about 30 seconds of total dead space between two songs that were not part of the recording (there was no hiss at all so clearly not part of the "session").
Timings will be different of course in regards to were I put the indexing that made the most sense to me on my transfer.

Thanks again to Doc for the motivation to do something with this tape finally and I do hope it get's the DocTinker seal of approval!

I've attached a few mp3 samples if you've downloaded the previous version and would like to compare so you don't have to take my word for it but I don't believe you will be dissapointed...

Enjoy!
mjk5510