Taj Mahal - 1985-02-21 - Cotati, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(soundboard FLAC)

Lineage:

soundboard > Sony high end desktop cassette deck (possibly a TC-K777 or TC-FX77) Maxell XLII-S90

transfer: 

Sony TC-K71 (Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus > Sound Forge 8 (24 bit, track, normalize to peak levels, BIAS Sound Soap noise reduction DX plug-in, bit-depth conversion to 16 bit, export to .wav files) > FLAC level 8 encoding align on sector boundaries. Not burned to cdr - no EAC.

1985 Feb. 21

Cotati Cabaret

[most of early show missing]

01 Long Gone (beginning cut) 05:14.374

02 "some information" 01:59.594

03 Corinna 05:41.728

(encore)

04 Take A Giant Step 04:47.928

[late show]

05 Johnny Too Bad 05:39.120

06 Queen Bee 04:02.467

07 (title?) 06:04.293

08 Freight Train 05:49.164

09 Dust My Broom 06:26.902

10 Candyman (end cut) 00:50.364

[tape flip]

11 CC Rider (beginning cut) 05:31.813

12 Cause I'm In Love With You 08:57.673

13 Walkin' Blues 08:06.674

14 Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue 06:20.344

15 (title?) 04:23.858

16 Rollin' And Tumblin' 06:10.731

TRT 1h26m6s

recorded and transferred by Easy Ed

Notes by the trader:

I think the original recording was made with Dolby off since the tape is not marked 'Dolby B or C on' as was my custom. Since it is a little hissy, I took the liberty of applying some very slight noise (hiss) reduction using BIAS Sound Soap. If anyone wants the recording without this processing please contact me and I'd be happy to oblige. I usually am against offering original recordings with any processing but I was very light-handed here, plus I am keeping a copy of the transfer without noise reduction should there be reason to do anything with it in the future.

The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco. The Cabaret was an outgrowth of another venue that had been across the street called The Inn of The Beginning, a resurrected version of which has since 'risen from the ashes' once or twice since the 80's.

Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made in 1973. There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of which is long gone :<(