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1994
3/2/94
crowd
0:07
Crescent Moon
5:10
Hunted
4:13
Ring On The Sill
4:11
banter - flower bouquet / snowstorm
0:48
'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
4:25
Oregon Hill
5:02
banter - happy song
0:34
Anniversary Song
3:22
banter - cognac
1:20
This Street, That Man
3:46
banter - delayed flowers arrive
0:49
First Recollection ->
4:16
Seven Years
4:34
banter - first album
1:08
Shining Moon
4:32
banter - first tour stories
2:53
Forgive Me
5:19
Misguided Angel
5:10
banter - one of those happy songs
0:39
Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
3:47
Pale Sun
4:14
banter - one more song / band intros
2:20
Murder Tonight In The Trailer Park
6:07
encore break
0:45
Sweet Jane
3:58
Blue Moon Revisited
4:41
thanks
0:16
FIN
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Taper: Scott Bernstein
1:28:26
Rating:
9.00 / 2 ratings
Taper:
Scott Bernstein
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
cowboyjunkies1994-03-02.early.ecm959.flac16
Source:
FOB Audience
Lineage:
Original Recording: Sony ECM-959 (center of main floor) -> Denon DTR-80p (master @16/48) DAT playback: Sony R-500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48) Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0d - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*. Volume normalization, Sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, dithering to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, with high dither settings, major clap removal, smoothing out some crackles from a loose mic cable and EQ-ing to minimize a couple of crowd loud yells. Tracked in CDWav.
Taper Notes:
View NotesNote there was a pause in the recording during the encore break, as was traditional during the time, when we were concerned about overflowing tape length. Apparently there was an early & late show which were separate tickets on this night (I think they added the late show after the early already sold out) and I only attended the early show. Recorded, transferred (10/2011), mastered, and tracked (5/4-23/2012) by Scott Bernstein Follow me on Twitter to track my near-daily postings of FREE live music and concert photography: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein</a> Or become a "fan" on Facebook here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451</a> Taper notes: Finally getting around to another one of the bands I got turned onto in college, for BARN138 I present a Cowboy Junkies recording from deep in my archives. Definitely something far outside the boundaries of the jamband and funk stuff I tend to focus on, this is a Canadian band of folk/country/blues musicians lead by the brother & sister team of Michael and Margo Timmins (at the time when they had their biggest, "'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel" Margo was named to People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people list). They broke out around 1990 with their hit album "The Caution Horses" which was proceeded by "The Trinity Session" (which had a very a minor hit with "Misguided Angel" and their cover of Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane") an album they recorded using a single stereo microphone in a church. Their trademark sound lies somewhere between restrained folk, sparse country, mellow blues, and subtle bluegrass (with many of their tunes featuring both electric guitar and mandolin). "Restrained" has to be the mantra for a band that records an album with a single microphone in a church -- dynamics and restraint are key to making that format work. Anyway, the band has a lot of melancholy tunes (Margo jokes about it a lot onstage at this show with interviewers always asking her "Why are all of your songs so sad?" -- even going as far as to pen an explicitly happy tune "Anniversary Song"), and puts their unique spin on lots of covers -- Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" (which is exquisite), "Blue Moon", (over the years, but not played at this show), Springsteen's "State Trooper" (from his sparse Nebraska album), Neil Young's "Powderfinger", blues tunes by Lightning Hopkins, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, and a number of Townes Van Sant tunes. This is not party music, or even music to dance to -- this is chill-out late night or early morning music for sure. Interestingly enough, the band now explicitly allows open taping at their shows. But at this point I was not aware of this (or maybe they hadn't articulated a policy?), so I was recording on the sly with the stereo Sony mic I had at the time hidden in a hat. The crowd was mostly respectful, but this was a quiet show and any claps were really magnified on the recording -- so I did a TON of cleanup on it. Add to that a seemingly slightly defective mic cable (which resulted in a bit of crackling in the recording, most of which I was able to completely mask or minimize so much that it's barely audible), added to the fact that I had to do a lot of work to keep the between-song banter audible, I put a lot of work into this BARN series release for you. I hope you all appreciate! I saw this band once earlier (which I recorded on cassette) and one or 2 more times after (which I have on DAT), so eventually I will get all of this material out. This particular show is from a period that I liked a lot, featuring favorites from The Caution Horses ("'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel", "Sun Comes Up..."), The Trinity Session ("Sweet Jane", "Misguided Angel", "Blue Moon Revisited"), Black Eyed Man, released in 1992 ("Oregon Hill", which I absolutely LOVE, "Murder Tonight In The Trailer Park"), lots from their current album at the time, Pale Sun Crescent Moon ("Crescent Moon", "First Recollection", "Ring On The Sill", "Pale Sun", "Hunted"), and even one from Whites Off Earth Now ("Forgive Me"). Most of the tunes fit their restrained mode, but "Murder Tonight..." is a sort of rocker if you want to get a taste of what they sound like when they are a bit more unrestrained Margo makes reference to a huge snowstorm that had occurred that day, thanking everyone for making it, and lamenting the lateness of her expected boquet of roses that the record label usually provided for her in NYC. :) There were 2 separate shows that night at the Supper Club (requiring separate tickets), an early (8pm?) and late (10:30?). I only attended the early show. Hope you enjoy this deep deep recording from my archive and appreciate the mastering work I did in bringing it up to my releasable standards. Enjoy!