Marcia Ball
Tipitina's
New Orleans
Sunday, May 9, 1982
Opened for Li'l Queenie and the Percolators

1. //Big Chief 1:53
2. Pack It//Up 3:47
3. Sea Cruise > encore break 5:29
4. Ain't No Way 5:20
5. Tell Mama > band intros 5:29
Total: 21:58

Source: unknown mics & recorder > Tommy Stevenson's master cassette (Fuji FX-II 90), labeled #30/82.

Transfer: master cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (head azimuth optimized) > Tascam DA-P1 > Audiomedia III > aiff > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.6.2 (Waves Q10 parametric EQ to reduce muddiness, -2db, 250 Hz, 3.0Q curve) > aiff > Shorten for Mac 1.1a3 > shn > xACT > flac > MacBook Air > iZotope RX 11 Advanced (Interpolate tool used to repair tiny dropouts; additional EQ applied: +1db 120Hz 1.4Q bell curve, -1.5 db, 1160 Hz 1.4Q, +1.3 db 3300 Hz 1.4Q; Azimuth tool used to center the stereo image; normalized about 5 db) > wav > Audacity 3.7.7 (tracked) > xACT 2.59b (tagged)

Notes
This was recorded by Tommy Stevenson. It was transferred by Richard Russell in July 2002 when a mutual friend, Ben Windham, loaned me the master.

There were a number of dropouts, particularly in Tracks 1 and 2. Most were repaired. If they were less than one-tenth second, I used RX Advanced's Interpolate tool to fill in the missing music. Other longer dropouts of up to about a half-second were repaired with clones from similar passages. A 51-second dropout at about 3:26 into Track 2 was shortened to a half-second.

Additionally, the left channel dropped out for about 53 seconds at 1:44 into track 5. It was repaired by splicing in a clone of the right channel and applying crossfades.

Initial repairs were made in 2002 with further edits and tweaks, as noted above, in September 2026.