Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden Missouri Sky Duets
Liederhalle, Beethoven-Saal
Stuttgart, Germany
2003-05-02

Pat Metheny- guitars (solo on trks. 1-4)
Charlie Haden, double bass (solo on trk. 5)

source/lineage- cd-r trade of EXC audience recording captured on unknown equipment> EAC> Audacity> TLH> TTD

01 Last Train Home (Pat Metheny) 9:42
02 Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris) 3:30
03 Song For The Boys (Pat Metheny) 4:30
04 Into The Dream (Pat Metheny) 5:47
05 Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman) 7:27
06 Waltz For Ruth (Charlie Haden) 5:20
07 Our Spanish Love Song (Charlie Haden) 7:22
08 First Song (Charlie Haden) 9:27
09 The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (Jimmy Webb) 5:16
10 Message To A Friend (Pat Metheny) 8:31
11 The Precious Jewel (Roy Acuff) 4:44
12 The Calling (Pat Metheny) 10:06
13 Two For The Road (Henry Mancini) 7:08
14 Farmer's Trust (Pat Metheny) 8:59
15 Blues For Pat (Charlie Haden) 8:39
16 Lonely Woman (Horace Silver) 7:02
17 Cinema Paradiso Themes (Andrea and Ennio Morricone) 5:21

There's currently nothing up on the tracker from this duo that did play a few dates in 2002, and several more in the first half of 2003 promoting their Beyond the Missouri Sky album from 1997. I'm unsure if this has run here before at TTD. In any case, this Metheny/Haden show seems far less circulated than a show from Burghausen, Germany a few days later. I got this fine recording via a cd-r trade many years ago. It's an audience capture, and you will occasionally hear things to indicate that, but the taper must've been in a good location and working with good equipment to get a fine grab like this.
In prepping this share, Audacity was used to retrack the show because many tracks had started with the applause following the previous track. Now, everything will start with the new selection being played. It must be mentioned that Pat and Charlie often didn't wait for applause to die off before starting a new track (not sure what their hurry might've been, given the generally laid-back material). The files were also slightly tweaked with EQ and Mastering tools from Audacity to make Haden's bass a little more clear in spots than it once had been. sbe's were found to be present, so they were repaired in TLH. Check the samples below to gain a general sense of what you'll be getting in this show.
Many thanks to the trader who'd once sent this my way, and thanks too to whoever it was that got this nice recording in Stuttgart that evening.