Counting Crows
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Augustana
Emmy Rossum
AKA “The Saturday Night Rebel Rockers Traveling Circus & Medicine Show”
Central Park Summerstage
New York, NY
9/3/2009

Neumann TLM170(FOB cardoids center, in sweet spot)->Sound Devices 722 (@24/96)

FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 9.0c (Peak Level Normalize to 0db; resample to 44.1 with interpolation accuracy 4, anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit highpass triangular dither with high pass contour noise shaping); Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1

1. intro
2. Caravan (Van Morrison) +
3. Hello Bonjour -> *
4. A Murder Of One ^
5. A Long December ^
6. Hanging Tree ^
7. Omaha ^%
8. intro to…
9. Goin’ Back To Georgia (Nanci Griffith) ^$
10. intro to…
11. Sweet Virginia (Rolling Stones) %^$
12. Stars And Boulevards %
13. Meet You There %
14. Boston %
15. intro to…
16. (You’ve Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back -> (The Temptations, made famous by Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger) *%^
17. Casey Jones (1 chorus + guitar solo) -> *%^ (Grateful Dead)
18. (You’ve Gotta Walk And) Don’t Look Back -> *%^# (The Temptations, made famous by Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger)
19. Everybody Ona Move (w/”Billie Jean” jams) -> *
20. All I Want Is You -> *#
21. Good Love -> #*
22. Rude Boys Back In Town -> *#
23. Tainted Love -> (Soft Cell) *
24. All I Want Is You *#
25. The Sound Of Sunshine *^
26. I Got Love For You *
27. Delta Lady (Leon Russell) +

Set 2

1. intro to…
2. Another Horsedreamer’s Blues (w/Carl Young [Spearhead bassist] on sax) ^
3. Catapult ^
4. Hard Candy ^
5. Mr. Jones ^
6. Good Times ^
7. Have You Seen Me Lately ^
8. A Little Bit Of Riddim *#
9. Yell Fire! #
10. banter about the Ryman #
11. Say Hey (I Love You) #
12. Just Like A Woman -> (Bob Dylan) %@
13. Dust %
14. Twenty Years %
15. intro to…
16. Fire %@
17. intro to…
18. Angel From Montgomery (John Prine) $@
19. intro to…
20. Why Should You Come When I Call? -> ^*
21. Hanginaround ^
22. Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkel) +
23. Redemption Song #
24. Hey World (Remote Control) *
25. Raise a Ruckus Tonight -> %
26. The Rain King -> ^%
27. With A Little Help From My Friends -> (The Beatles) +
28. The Rain King +
29. This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
30. band intros
31. outro music

Total time: 3:30:07

• = everyone
• = Michael Franti & Spearhead
  ^ = Counting Crows
  % = Augustana
  $ = w/Emmy Rossum on vocals
• = w/Cherine Anderson on vocals

@ = w/Adam Duritz on vocals

Notes: The sound mix in the venue (in addition to being at a suprisingly low volume, even for Central Park Summerstage) was fair for this show. Yes there were a TON of people coming on and off the stage at all times, but that’s no excuse for muddy bass, muddy acoustic guitars, thin sounding organ, and drums that sometimes were WAY too loud. Amazingly this recording sounds really good [maybe even better than it sounded to my ears in the venue] (it starts out kinda iffy but improves as the show goes on), but I never felt like the mix was nearly as good as it could have been. I had been warned that even though Counting Crows allow open taping the venue tries to push you to the back, so I ran just above head height for most of the night (hence the random but luckily infrequent crowd chatter), but slowly slowly raised the stand as the night went on, so by the end I was running at a nice height above peoples’ heads. Wish the setlist could have had a few less Augustana songs and a few more Counting Crows songs, but what can you do? On the other hand, Michael Franti and Spearhead are always a treat, and the freewheeling nature of the interband jamming and large amount of cool covers makes up for it.

Enjoy this massive show!

Recorded, mastered, and tracked by Scott Bernstein (Originally posted 9/10/2009)
Tagging, setlist corrections, and new MD5 file generated 3/9/2023

(One day I will dig out the master files and post a 24 bit remaster!)