Tag: golden state country bluegrass festival

Old & In the Way – San Rafael, CA (04/27/74)

Old And In The Way
SAT 04/27/74
Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival – San Rafael, CA

I posted the entire bluegrass festival here.

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 21525

Recording: AUD – MA?>?>D>CD

Set One

01 – High Lonesome Sound
02 – Pig In A Pen
03 – Panama Red
04 – Wild Horses
05 – Hobo Song

Comments: This was a complete set (around 30 minutes). Doc
Watson performed before O&ITW and Jim and Jesse McReynolds
and the Virginia Boys performed after O&ITW. The same setlist
for this tape and also 04/28/74 make it a little suspicious.

admin note, 1/30/2011: the song names are about the only correct information in the above info file. There was no OAITW set on 4/27/74. The only OAITW set of the festival was on Sun. 4/28/74, to close out the festival. It doesn’t matter what your info files say … trust us. So the above comment, that Jim & Jesse followed OAITW, is just patently incorrect. One can hear continuous tape from the end of Hobo Song to whatt are clearly festival-ending comments from the stage. Also, this is not an aud, but a significantly degraded soundboard. High Lonesome Sound cuts in, and this whole thing is running about 6% slow … ouch.

Great American String Band – San Rafael, CA (04/26/74)

Great American String Band
Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival
(often incorrectly given as Marin County Bluegrass Festival)
Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium Building and Grounds
San Rafael, CA
April 26, 1974 (Friday)

This is a tagged version of shnid: 99532

Taper: Tom Moran;
Gear: Sony cassette recorder with built-in mic (“maybe a Sony TC-150”);
Source: taperpat’s 1st gen reel;
Transfer (Matt Smith): AKAI GX625 playback > Apogee Mini Me (24/96) > Apogee
Mini Dac (monitoring) > Wavelab 5.0 (dithered to 16/44) > CD;
Lossless encoding (jj): EAC > CDWave > TLH (FLAC level 8).

(7 tracks, 29:11)

  1. Bud’s Bounce [2:35] [0:07]
  2. Dawg’s Bull [2:40] [0:36]
  3. Rolling In My Sweet Baby’s Arms (1) [4:39] [0:20]
  4. My Plastic Banana Is Not Stupid [3:20] [0:27]
  5. Swing ’42 [5:34] [0:21]
  6. Dawg’s Rag [5:45] [0:17]
    I’ll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards [2:28] [0:02]
    (MISSING: Midnight At The Oasis [w/ Maria Muldaur])

Performers:
Taj Majal – bass;
David Nichtern – guitar;
Jerry Garcia – banjo;
David Grisman – mandolin;
Richard Greene – fiddle;
Vassar Clements – fiddle;
(1) Maria Muldaur – vocals.

Notes:

  • This is not a high fidelity recording, but it is not bad. It certainly puts you in the
    time and place pretty well.

Thanks to everyone in involved in getting this from the Festival to our hard drives!

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