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Cafe R&B – San Luis Obispo, CA (12/06/14)

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Cafe R&B
SLO Veteran’s Hall
San Luis Obispo, CA
December 6, 2014

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** 16 BIT **

Source: Neumann AK-40’s (ORTF In Hat) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100-MKII (24 bit/48 kHz)
Mastering: .WAV >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (fades, minor edits, & normalize) >CDWav (tracking) >iZotope MBIT+ (dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) >Trader’s Little Helper (level 5) >FLAC
Location: FOB, 9 feet from stage, mid-left, in front of the guitar player
[Recorded by: Old Neumanntapr]
[Mastered by: Dennis Orr]
[Tags Via xACT 2.53, + Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr]

Setlist:

  1. Intro
  2. Walkin’ Through The Park
  3. Born Under A Bad Sign
  4. I Get Higher
  5. Snatch It Back And Hold It
  6. Going Down
  7. Chat
  8. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
  9. Gypsy Woman
  10. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright >
  11. You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Hound Dog
  12. Born On The Bayou
  13. Chat
  14. There Was A Time
  15. Encore Break
  • Encore –
  1. Killing Floor
  2. Outro

Roach – vocals
Byl Carruthers – guitar
Bobby Pickett – bass
Harry Cohen – keyboards
Don Swanson – drums

Taper Notes:

  • SLO Blues Society show
  • I love this band, and have seen them many times in SLO County. Roach, who is married to guitarist Byl Carruthers, has such a stage presence that she has the audience, especially men, wrapped around her finger. This show the band encored with ‘Killing Floor’, and Roach gyrated onstage like a woman possessed, before culminating with a fall to the floor in a fetal position at the guitarist’s feet, with the microphone clutched in her hands. I stood up front, at the edge of the dance floor, directly in front of the guitarist’s amp. I think this audience recording has a really good mix of instruments and vocals, as only vocals and keyboards were being pushed through the PA. Byl commented onstage that San Luis Obispo has one of the two oldest Blues Societies in the country, the other being in Santa Barbara. He said on stage that the SLO Blues Society was 37 years old, but I believe it was started in 1980, which would make it 34 years old. In any case, I have been very fortunate to have been a part of so many blues shows at the SLO Vets’ Hall over the years, going back to 1992.

Cafe R&B – Paso Robles, CA (07/22/00)

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Cafe R&B
7/22/00
Blues Round Up
Paso Robles Hot Springs
Paso Robles, CA

Download FLAC: Google Drive

Digital Soundboard; Yamaha 16 Channel board >XLR >Tascam DA-P1 (16bit/44.1khz)

DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-P1 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Master >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.39

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork Photo By OldNeumanntapr

  1. Intro
  2. John The Revelator
  3. Sittin’ On Top Of The World
  4. Black Cat Blues
  5. How Many More Years*
  6. Steppin’
  7. Don’t Wake Me
  8. Snatch It Back And Hold It
  9. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
  10. Killing Floor
  11. Shine
  12. There Was A Time**
  13. Smokestack Lightning*

*Howlin Wolf cover
**James Brown cover

Roach – Vocals
Byl Carruthers – Guitars
Harry Cohen – Piano & Organ
Ken Dooley – Bass
Stephen Klong – Drums

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was an incredible set! Cafe R&B is a smoking hot blues band from Los Angeles who headlined the 2000 SLO Blues Society Blues Roundup. (The San Luis Obispo Blues Society usually held their shows at the San Luis Obispo Vets’ Hall, but every summer they would put on a big multi-band ‘Blues Round Up’.) I was a volunteer on the sound crew from 1992 until 2001, but still would go back at times when little Jack, the dwarf who was my friend the sound man, retired from doing sound. For the 2000 Blues Round Up, Cafe R&B put on a great show with so much energy. This was the first time that I had seen them, and I patched my Tascam DA-P1 out of the board. Roach has an incredible bluesy voice, and her husband, Bly Carruthers, is a hot guitarist. Unfortunately, because it was a board mix, the guitar was not prominent in the mix because it was so loud onstage. I also photographed the sets that day for the Paso Robles newspaper, where I worked as a photographer. I couldn’t find my original photos and had to use a tear sheet from the newsprint for the artwork. I just love the look in Roach’s eyes in that shot!

70 minutes

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