Ry Cooder - 1984-08-04 - Cotati, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Cotati Cabaret

Lineage:
soundboard > Sony TC-FX6C cassette deck (Maxell MX90 metal tape recorded with Dolby B on)

transfer:
JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > BIAS Sound Soap > .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries

Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Jorge Calderon - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Bobby King - tenor vocals
Willie Greene, Jr. - bass vocals

disc one
01. Little Sister
02. Smack Dab In The Middle
03. Go Home, Girl
04. Things Can't Talk
05. You Better Have Jesus
06. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?

TRT 41:13

disc two
01. Available Space
02. Goin' To Brownsville
03. Alimony (unexplained gap of just over 1 second in this song)
04. Money Honey
05. Down In The Boondocks
06. Why Don't You Try Me?
07. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
08. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
09. Never Make Your Move Too Soon

TRT 51:28

Notes by the taper
Since the original recording was made with Dolby B on, which adds 10dB boost to the high frequencies, yet the playback was done without Dolby B on (which would have cut the high frequencies by 10dB) 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. I also recorded Ry Cooder at the Cabaret on August 5, 1984. About half the songs they did were the same. That has been and someday again may be a (separate) torrent TRT just under 90 minutes. 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.