New Grass Revival
December 4th, 1989
Boulder Theatre
Boulder, Colorado

Source: Nak 300 + CP4 > Sony D5 > Maxell XL-IIS (no NR)
Transfer: Yamaha K-1020 > Sek’d Prodif Plus > Soundforge 5.0 > Cdwav (tape from John Levene)

Disk One

01. Pastor Mustard's Intro
02. Do What You Gotta Do
03. One More Love Song
04. Pack of Fools
05. Love Someone Like Me
06. One Love
07. I’m Looking Past You
08. Intro of Band
09. Calling Baton Rouge
10. Friday Night in America
11. “Banjo Humor”
12. Big Foot
13. Plant Your Fields
14. Molly & Tenbrooks*

Total Time Disk One: 63:00

Disc Two

01. Good Woman’s Love
02. Singing the Blues
03. Get in the Wind
04. Angel Eyes
05. Let’s Make a Baby King
06. I Can’t Stop Now
07. Just Is
08. Great Balls of Fire
09. Walking in Jerusalem
10. Metric Lips

Total Time Disk Two: 61:15

Comments: Very high energy, wild crowd, top notch New Grass in rare emotion filled form for last Boulder event.

This was the first of two farewell shows NGR played at Boulder Theater just weeks before they called it quits on New Years Eve opening for the Grateful Dead. This was billed as the "It Ain't Over "til It's Over" tour, and New Grass rarely sounded better than on this occasion. Explosive performance in front of a raucous crowd of NGR devotees. They really peaked here on this tour.

I have a copy of a master audience version of this show on VHS tape, but this is another version that is slightly better. I listened to my master recording of this show and found that the qualities of this Levene version and my own were quite similar. I think the Levene version has better overall tone, but the levels are a bit lower than they have to be. On my version, it is slightly brighter sound but a little bit more clapping and a few glitchy sounds from the VHS tape it is on.

*So when I discovered a flac file missing from the Levene version (disk one, track 14), I was happy to be able to replace it with my source recording (of Molly and Tenbrooks). My tape, btw, was made with permission from Fred Shellman and on a Sony D5 with Beyer M201 mics. Both recordings are very good to excellent, but I give the nod to the Levene version for being cleaner.
- Dub Irie 08/26/2006