Bonnie Raitt
9/20/92
Flag Is Up Farms
Solvang, CA
Front Row, Right:
Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1 Cardioids >Sony WM-D6C XLIIS Cass Master (No NR) >CDR >FLAC
(Microphones Kept Low To Avoid Detection)
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >EQ >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Master Extracted With xACT 2.37 >WAV >FLAC (Level 8)
Remaster June 2024
FLAC >WAV >Audacity (Combine Tracks To A One-Track File, Amplify, De-Amplify Close-Proximity Hand Claps & Other Assorted Crowd Noise, Re-Track On Original Index Points, Minor Edits And Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 (And Front-Cover Artwork) By OldNeumanntapr
Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
- Any Day Woman
- Rainy Day Man
- Women Be Wise
- Love Me Like A Man
- Nobody’s Girl
- Louise
- Mississippi Road
- Nick Of Time
- All At Once
- Thing Called Love
- Something To Talk About
- Willya Wontcha
- Somebody’s Baby (Jackson Browne Lead Vocals)
- Angel From Montgomery
Bill Wallace For Supervisor Benefit
(Daytime Show, Minor Crowd Noise)
Performances Also By Jackson Browne & Jim Messina
Bonnie Raitt – Acoustic And Electric Guitars & Vocals
Johnny Lee Schell – Guitar
OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was a benefit concert for Bill Wallace for Supervisor of Santa Barbara County and was held in a pasture of a horse ranch in Solvang, CA. The previous night’s show, at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, Bonnie nearly stopped the show because of a photographer in the orchestra pit (who was never found but you can hear security looking for him on the recording.) My friend Rick recorded that one and urged me to use caution while recording this one as it was a daytime show and we were in the front of the crowd and easily visible. (As it was a daytime show I remember Bonnie thanking “The Big Guy on the lights”. Funny.) Bonnie played acoustic to start out and then, when she switched to her electric guitar, she made a comment about hoping that none of the pregnant mares ‘Jumped the gun!’ Someone brought a bouquet of flowers for her up to the stage which led her to get silly and say, “I’d like to thank the academy…” The show also included sets by Jackson Browne and Jim Messina. I’ve never seen another concert there since nor even heard about one advertised. I used a stand-alone EQ to correct the frequency response a bit on this recording. Because the microphones were low to the ground to avoid detection, so I had to boost the high end and scale back the bass a bit. This was my favorite time period for Bonnie Raitt and I really liked her song selection at this show.
June 2024 Notes-
I assembled all the tracks into a one-track file in Audacity to try and clean things up a bit by lowering the crowd applause between songs and amplifying the entire recording. After an evenings work I think it sounds a bit better than the original, but after using digital recorders for so long the tape hiss on the old cassette masters is really noticeable. I guess it was a necessary evil of the time.
Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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