Bonnie Raitt - 1972-12-02 - New Haven, CT, SBD (kazkaz.goody)

BONNIE RAITT
1972-12-02
Sprague Hall, Yale University
New Haven, CT (both shows)

EX SOUNDBOARD

Sample at http://calmness.com/tmp/CantFindMyWayHome.mp3

Goody Pitch-Corrected Remaster

1st and 2nd shows, soundboard.

The source quality and performance are outstanding, especially considering the age.
There are few recordings available from that early in Bonnie's career, and few that sound this excellent.

Lineage: SBD > reel > WAV > CDR > WAV > Cooledit > CDR > EAC > FLAC
(If you want the source recordings it would be SBD > reel > WAV > CDR) >

Goody's additional lineage:
TLH (WAV) > Audition (Tracking; Pitch Bender (various amounts, applied per comments below;) Channels mixed; Levels adjusted) > TLH (FLAC Level 8; Align sector boundaries)


Bonnie Raitt - guitar, vocals
Freebo - bass, harmony vocal (and kazoo)
Lou Terriciano - piano

Maria Muldaur - harmony vocals on*
David Nichtern - electric guitar on+
??? - flute
??? - harmonica


[Text as originally posted with the source torrent, upon which this edition is based, with a few edits:]

In 2002 I (Kevin Zaleski, trades@leopig.com) got copies of CDs from a trader who told me he dubbed them from a reel to reel to audio cdr. I was told this is from a set of old reels that were purchased at a garage sale for $1 each. Only the artist and date were identified on the tape.

There is doubt about the venue. http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=187928 lists the venue for this date as Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, but several of the tapes that were bought together at the garage sale were labeled with venues in Cambridge, MA, and Bonnie does mention Cambridge. The setlist on etree has some incorrect titles; correct titles are below.

Someone did a rough hack at the source tapes to make the three source CDs from which these two CDs were produced. Some of the track indicies are off. I did not get around to fixing them and will not have any time in the forseeable future so I will leave that to someone else.

I spent considerable time editing three source CDs from this collection into this 2-CD set. I removed silence, removed a duplicate track, patched a two-part track (d2t13) back together, removed 10-15 minutes of the band tuning up, (they needed to re-tune after nearly every track), shortened the pre-encore applause and smoothed out several rough track transitions.
Note: I did not bother to fix the track indicies.
No noise reduction, EQ, or any other general processing was done.
If someone wants to remaster this from the original source material, contact me.

The voice track is skewed mostly to the right channel and the bass track is mostly in the left channel; otherwise an excellent recording (clean and crisp).

Please, when you trade this show: leave a link back to trades@leopig.com in case someone wants the source recordings. This is the best quality show of hers from the early 1970s that I've ever found, it has historical value and someone someday will want to completely remaster it.

I concur with Randall's comment below. The second set probably starts with "Love Me Like a Man". I trusted the setlists at etree, but I suspect that they attributed what was on the first source CD as being the first set when in fact it was simply what would fit off the reel onto one CD.

Thanks to jayhawk: "Several sources list this title as "Goin' Down to Louisiana" but I believe this is incorrect--an attempt by somebody early on to give the song a title. Bonnie's "Sigma Sound Studios" boot gives the song the title "Rollin' and Tumblin' ", which I believe is more correct (if any one title is correct). The majority of the lyrics in the song seem to be ones Bonnie has pulled in from a variety of classic blues songs (such as "Diving Duck Blues".) Then, for the final verse, she sings the words from the classic "Rollin' and Tumblin' ". So, I guess really no one, except possibly Bonnie, knows the real title."