Peter Rowan – Pozo, CA (06/29/96)

Peter Rowan & The Free Mexican Airforce
6/29/96
Pozo Saloon
Pozo, CA

FOB: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o.
CD Master >FLAC (Level 8)
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Pozo Summer Festival
Opened For Richie Havens. (The Chambers Brothers Preceded Peter Rowan).

Panama Red (w/extended instrumental)
Faith, Love & Devotion/I’ll Be There
Wild Horses
Intro/Rainmaker
Tumbleweed
Wings Of Horses
Ruby Ridge
The Free Mexican Airforce (including Intro)
Land Of The Navajo
Midnight Moonlight

Peter Rowan Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Lorin Rowan, Vocals (6 String Electric)
Chester Smith (Percussion)
Special Guest on Fiddle from Ruby Ridge onwards – Louis Mantaleone?

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This show was billed as the ‘Pozo Summer Festival’, and included The Chambers Brothers, Peter Rowan And The Free Mexican Airforce, and Richie Havens who headlined. The Pozo Saloon is a 100+ year old stage stop out in the middle of nowhere. The concerts are always held in the back of the saloon, in the field. This was back when the ‘stage’ was the back porch of the saloon, and you had to deal with trees that interrupted the sight lines. Since then there has been a larger stage built further back from the saloon in the pasture where the concerts are currently held. I’d never seen Peter Rowan or Richie Havens before. This was the show that where I found out that John Kahn, Jerry Garcia’s bass player in the Garcia Band, had passed away. Peter Rowan mentioned it between songs and it came as a shock to me, because I hadn’t realized that he’d died. I also recorded Richie Havens, along with the song ‘The Time Has Come’ from the Chambers Brothers. The Havens set is good, but I never could find the snippet of the Chambers Brothers, as it got lost long ago.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

Old & In the Way – Unknown Location (xx/xx/73)

Old & In The Way
Unknown Venue
xx-xx-1973

01 Down Where the River Bends
02 Uncle Pen
03 Orange Blossom Special
04 Lonesome Fiddle Blues
05 On And On
06 Catfish John
07 ëTil the End of the World Rolls ëRound
08 Drifting Too Far From The Shore
09 Old & In The Way Breakdown
10 You’ll Find Her Name Written There
11 Jerryís Breakdown
12 The Great Pretender
13 Working On A Building
14 High Lonesome Sound
15 Wicked Path Of Sin
16 Blue Mule

Peter Rowan ñ Guitar
David Grisman ñ Mandolin
Jerry Garcia ñ Banjo
Vassar Clements ñ Fiddle
John Kahn ñ Double Bass

This is a tagged version of shnid: 99499

Notes say unknown but the files are tagged with 10/08/73.

Lineage: MA-R 90 Cassette

Transfer: Tascam mkII >Korg MR1000 at 1bit/5.6mHZ>Korg Audio Gate Software > 32 bit float/96kHz >
GEMS Edit Station > Weiss-Saracon for SRC and Pow-r3 Dither to 16 bit 44.1 kHz
TLH for FLAC8 SBE FREE

Transfers and Mastering by Jamie Waddell shnflac@gmail.com
Crossfades and edits by Bill Koucky June 12, 2009
a **GEMS** Production http://www.shnflac.net Lossless Legs

I was out doing yard sales recently. I had the SYF hat on and was looking for some fans
for the hot Tucson summer. Got to talking with this one fella and the GD came up.
He said to me after hearing about LL that he had some tapes. I asked him if he knew
where they came from. He said, “I cant tell ya man”. I thought he meant that he,
“didnít know, cant tell” but out he walked with a lilí treasure chest of some cassettes.
The cases werenít pretty but the tapes were high end pro tapes. I asked him again where
he got them and again he said “I cant tell you” but it seems your folks in the trading
world might like them Well, I got home and found too many treasure to note.
He told me they werenít always on the best dubbing deck and some had been played
and were at least 25 years old (some older) but he was sure that these versions
were recorded by what he termed a “dear old buddy” and official channels and he
had them for years and years and would like some of them to see the light of day.
More to come.

TLH for FLAC8 SBE FREE

Transfers and Mastering by Jamie Waddell shnflac@gmail.com
Crossfades and edits by Bill Koucky June 12, 2009
a **GEMS** Production http://www.shnflac.net Lossless Legs

Old & In the Way – Palo Alto, CA (07/24/73)

Old And In The Way
TUE 07/24/73
Homer’s Warehouse
Palo Alto, CA

Recordings: FM MSR>D>CD

01 – Billy In The Lowground
02 – Going To The Races
03 – Catfish John
04 – Good Woman’s Love
05 – Lonesome Fiddle Blues
06 – Eating Out Of Your Hand
07 – Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
08 – Hobo Song
09 – Pig In A Pen
10 – Panama Red
11 – Workin’ On A Building
12 – Hard Hearted

Comments: It appears as if this was the complete show.
Asleep at the Wheel opened. FM Broadcast KZSU Palo Alto.

Old & In The Way – San Francisco, CA (07/23/73)

Old And In The Way
The Boarding House
San Francisco, CA
07/23/1973

Cheyenne
Down Where The River Bends
Love Please Come Home
Midnight Moonlight
Fanny Hill
Hard Hearted
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
Pig In A Pen
Panama Red
Wild Horses
White Dove
Wicked Path Of Sin
Blue Mule
Orange Blossom Special
Old & In The Way Breakdown
On And On
Lonesome Fiddle Blues
The Fields Have Turned Brown
Mule Skinner Blues
Catfish John
Land Of The Navajo
Hobo Song

Vassar Clements ñ fiddle
Jerry Garcia ñ banjo, vocals
David Grisman ñ mandolin, vocals
John Kahn ñ acoustic bass
Peter Rowan ñ guitar, vocals

Source 1:
shnid: 11888
Recordings: SBD (DAT: MSR>?>D>CD)

Source 2:
This is a tagged version of shnid: 138922
Source: sbd > master reel > pcm > dat (48k)
provided by Rich Gastwirt
Tranfer: Dat > Sony PCM-R500 > Sound Devices 744T > wav 16/48
Transfered by Charlie Miller
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX 6 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 5 Advanced > CD Wave > TLH > Flac 16

Notes:

– This has the same cuts as the other sources in circulation, they are on the master.
– The tape was paused between most tracks, these have been cleaned and crossfades put in.

Thanks to Rich and Charlie.

edited and mastered
SIRMick
July 2017

Old & In The Way – Warrenton, VA (06/08/73)

Old & In the Way
Lake Whippoorwill
Warrenton, VA
6/8/73

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 20681
8th Annual Warrenton Bluegrass Folk Festival

MAC (Taped by Jerry Moore, Sony 126 w/ built-in mic, right
in front of stage) > ? > transfer (Dave Tamarkin) >
digital cleanup (Peter G.) > CD.
**info file updated 8/2004, had been listed as “Unknown Aud”**

1. Instrumental
2. On and On
3. The Willow Garden
4. Mule Skinner Blues
5. Land Of The Navajo
6. ‘Til The End Of The World Rolls ‘Round
7. No It Ain’t (1)
8. Lost (1?)

Notes:
(1) with Tex Logan on fiddle

Old & In the Way – Boston, MA (06/05/73)

Old & In The Way
5 June 1973
The Orpheum Theatre
Boston, MA

Jon Scher intro
Old & in the Way Breakdown
Tragic Romance
The Willow Garden
Going to the Races
Muleskinner Blues
‘Til the End of the World Rolls ‘Round
Instrumental
Land of the Navajo
band intros
Pig in a Pen
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
Hard Hearted
Panama Red
Wild Horses
Fanny Hill
The Hobo Song
High Lonesome Sound
Down Where the River Bends
Love Please Come Home
Lost
Knockin’ on Your Door
crowd
White Dove
Blue Mule
pre-encore tuning
How Mountain Girls Can Love
Mississippi Moon
Orange Blossom Special

Peter Rowan – vocals, guitar
Jerry Garcia – vocals, banjo
David Grisman – vocals, mandolin
Vassar Clements – fiddle
John Kahn – bass

notes:
Late Show
This was Vassar Clements’ first show with this band, replacing Richard Greene.
despite any previous claims, allsoundz states flatly that there was only one show, not two.
Doug Sahm opened the show and played a full set. Part of that tape survives and will be seeded here soon.

Source 1:

This is a tagged version of shnid: 83303
Mono cassette audience recording by allsoundz using a mic of now
forgotten manufacture and a Sony cassette recorder, model number, also long forgotten.
Transferred by allsoundz from the master non-dolbyized cassettes.
Tascam 122MKIII>Numark 20 Band Equalizer>HHB CDR 830
Tracked and slight editing in CD Wave

cdr>eac(secure mode)>flac(level 6) by carville 14 March 2007

Source 2:

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 11889
Recordings: AUD – MA?>?>D>CD

Source 3:

Source: This is a composite edit of AUD ID’s 11889 & 83303. Thanks to the tapers!
http://db.etree.org/shn/11889
http://db.etree.org/shn/83303

Transfer: SHN & FLAC > TLH > WavMerge > Wavelab > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC 1644 tagged.

Show notes: This is Vassar’s first gig with OAITW, and Jerry’s first performance at
the Boston Orpheum (of 20). Allsoundz – the taper of the 83303 source – states that
there was only one show (not early and late as previously listed) and that Doug Sahm
was the opening act. Allsoundz also recalled there was possibly a set-break somewhere
but this is not evident from the tapes; it appears the show might have been one long
set with a three-song encore.

Composite notes: For this show, both sources had pros & cons, and it appeared that the
show could benefit from a composite that joined the two together. Allsoundz tape 83303
has the benefit of being complete and with known lineage, but was recorded farther back
resulting in a more distant recording, with a lot of thumping near the mic. And, while
11889 is incomplete and with unknown number of tape generations, it was recorded closer,
delivering a nice aural picture of the concert. The 11889 taper appears to have been
a lot closer to the stage, perhaps with the mic right on the stage, as the between-song
banter from Spud and the boys can be heard clearly. 11889 was chosen for the bulk of the
show, with 83303 providing patches and the final part that was missing from 11889.

Allsoundz states that his tape is mono. It also appears that the 11889 original recording
was mono, as the Wav’s are identical, albeit having been shifted out of phase, probably
from the few generations of re-recording. For both sources, DC-offsets were removed, left
and right channels were manually aligned, then each source was merged to mono for editing.
Both sources were apparently running slow; 83303 between 40 & 50 cents, and 11889 between
75 & 85 cents. Each source was speed-adjusted as best as possible given the difficulties
of dealing with these old tapes. It’s probably not exact, but it’s pretty close…

Lots of small edits were done to soften mic-bumps, attenuate clapping, repair drop-outs,
etc. Small FLAC size due to mono WAV data. Patches from 83303 added as follows: Willow
Garden 3:18 > 3:19, Lonesome L.A. Cowboy 4:29 > Hard Hearted 0:49, crowd end of Love
Please Come Home 2:39 > Lost 0:06, crowd end of Lost 3:38 > Knockin’ on Your Door 0:18,
and crowd end of Knockin’ on Your Door 3:04 > thru to end of the show. Enjoy! (Aug 2014)

Donna The Buffalo – St. Petersburg, FL (05/04/01)

Donna the Buffalo
05/04/01
Jannus Landing
St. Petersburg, FL

Set I
Zydeco *
Cuckoo Bird *
Dust Bowl Children *
Fetch Wood Carry Water *
Pulling the Devil By the Tail *
Land of the Navajo *
Set II
In This Life
Tides of Time
Positive Friction
Ancient Arms
Funky Side
Lonesome for You
No Place Like the Right Time
Conscious Evolution ->
3rd Stone From the Sun ->
Conscious Evolution
Soileau Zydeco
Sailing
40 Days and 40 Nights
Staring Back at Me (Come Alive)
Family Picture

—-encores—-
No Woman, No Cry *
Midnight Moonlight *
Cold Rain and Snow *
Standing Room Only
How Long Must I Endure

Comment
* with Peter Rowan

Hey, I’m back. We had a great time in Europe, but I am oh so glad to be home. I’ve started uploading shows again, but I’ll likely be a bit slow about it for a bit as we recover from jetlag, and make all the adjustments of being here.

I’ve posted Donna the Buffalo before, so I won’t say much about them, except that if you have never heard them before, give them a try. They really are quite brilliant, and this is a fun show featuring bluegrass stalwart Peter Rowan.