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Ry Cooder
Cotati Cabaret - Cotati, CA
Recording Date
8/4/1984
Rock/Pop
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| 01 | Little Sister | Doc Pomus; Mort Shuman | 04:47 | ||||||
| 02 | Smack Dab In The Middle | Charles E. Calhoun | 05:36 | ||||||
| 03 | Go Home, Girl | Arthur Alexander | 05:17 | ||||||
| 04 | If Walls Could Talk | Bobby Miller | 10:22 | ||||||
| 05 | Denomination Blues | Washington Phillips | 05:21 | ||||||
| 06 | How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? | Blind Alfred Reed | 09:50 | ||||||
| 07 | Available Space | Ry Cooder | 03:47 | ||||||
| 08 | Goin' To Brownsville | Sleepy John Estes | 05:09 | ||||||
| 09 | Alimony | Tommy Tucker | 05:11 | ||||||
| 10 | Money Honey | Jesse Stone | 04:28 | ||||||
| 11 | Down In The Boondocks | Joe South | 03:46 | ||||||
| 12 | Why Don't You Try Me? | Billy Young | 03:57 | ||||||
| 13 | The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) | Sidney Bailey | 07:13 | ||||||
| 14 | Crazy 'Bout An Automobile | William R. Emerson | 05:57 | ||||||
| 15 | Never Make Your Move Too Soon | Nesbert Hooper; Will Jennings | 06:25 | ||||||
| 16 | Down in Hollywood | Ry Cooder; Tim Drummond | 05:34 | ||||||
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Ry CooderAugust 4, 1984
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA
soundboard > high end desktop Sony cassette deck > master cassette (Maxell MX90 metal tape recorded with Dolby B on)
transfer: JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > BIAS Sound Soap > .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries
Recorded by Easy Ed.
I, Easy Ed, was at the show with my cassette deck connected to the soundboard - this is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago. This is my master soundboard cassette.
disc one
1. Little Sister
2. Smack Dab In The Middle
3. Go Home, Girl
4. Things Can't Talk
5. You Better Have Jesus
6. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
TRT 41:13
disc two
1. Available Space
2. Goin' To Brownsville
3. Alimony (unexplained gap of just over 1 second in this song)
4. Money Honey
5. Down In The Boondocks
6. Why Don't You Try Me?
7. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
8. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
9. Never Make Your Move Too Soon
TRT 51:28
Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Jorge Calderon - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Bobby King - tenor vocals
Willie Greene, Jr. - bass vocals
Since the original recording was made with Dolby B on, which adds 10dB boost to the high frequencies, yet the playback was done without Dolby B on (which would have cut the high frequencies by 10dB) I took the liberty of applying some very slight noise (hiss) reduction using BIAS Sound Soap. If anyone wants the recording without this processing please contact me and I'd be happy to oblige. I usually am against offering original recordings with any processing but I was very light-handed here.
I also recorded Ry Cooder at the Cabaret on August 5, 1984. About half the songs they did were the same. That will be a separate torrent TRT just under 90 minutes.
The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco.
Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made (which I and many other people have). There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of which is long gone :<(