Marcia Ball
Tipitina's
New Orleans
Sunday, May 4, 1986
Opened for Koko Taylor and Her Blues Machine
Followed Li'l Queenie with John Magnie
10pm

1. Change It (backing band) 3:53
2. New Orleans 4:21
3. Made Your Move Too Soon 4:06
4. Mardi Gras In New Orleans// 3:44
5. I Don't Know 3:02
6. La Ti Da 4:29
7. I'm Gonna Forget About You 3:01
8. Another Man's Woman 4:37
9. That's Enough Of That Stuff 4:39
10. band intros 1:05
11. (Do The) Push and Pull 3:19
12. Up The Line 3:05
13. song break/banter :54
14. Don't You Know I Love You 1:59
15. I Still Love You 5:07
16. Tough Lover 5:09
17. I'm Just A Prisoner 3:54
18. I'd Rather Go//Blind 2:16
19. I Woke Up Screaming 5:33
20. Hot Tamale Baby 7:08
21. encore break 1:22
22. If I Ever Needed Love 3:59
23. Sea Cruise > outro 4:29

Total 1:25:20

Source: unknown mics > Sony TCD-D5 > Tommy Stevenson's master cassettes (Sony UCX-S90, #37/86 and #38/86)

Transfer: master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A (head azimuth optimized) > Metric Halo MIO-2882 > MacBook Pro > MIO Console 5.6 > wav > MacBook Air M1 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced (all but first 16 minutes EQ'd: +3.4db at 150 Hz 1.4Q, -1db at 650 Hz 1.4Q, +1.5db at 930 Hz 1.0Q) > flac > Audacity 3.7.7 (normalized, DC offset corrected, tracked) > xACT 2.59b (tagged) > flac

Notes
The recording is from the Tommy Stevenson collection. Special thanks to his son, Thomas, for locating the surviving masters and loaning them out for transfer. Transferred by Richard Russell, August 2026.

No noise reduction was applied to this recording.

This recording was spread over two tapes. The first included the end of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey's set at Jazzfest earlier in the day, and the second tape included the beginning of headliner Koko Taylor's set.

The photo included with these files was taken by the taper during the performance. It was used as cover art inside one of the cassette cases.

There were brief cuts at 3:20 of Mardi Gras In New Orleans (tape flip), 1:53 of I'd Rather Go Blind (tape change) and during the encore break to shorten.

Marcia Ball - piano
David Murray - guitar
Don Bennett - bass
Doyle Bramhall - drums
Bill Samuel - sax
Danny Kimball - rubboard

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