Cowboy Junkies
Heritage House,
Littleriver, CA
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

- One Set [1:33:45] -
track elapsed time title
----- ------- ----- -----
01. 00:00 01:25 [7:45 PM announcements & introduction]
02. 01:25 03:29 Cutting Board Blues
03. 04:55 04:01 Black-eyed Man
04. 08:56 06:13 Bea's Song
05. 15:09 04:09 My Wild Child
06. 19:18 06:15 Tired Eyes
07. 25:33 03:53 Rake »
08. 29:26 05:21 Flying Shoes
09. 34:47 05:24 Dreaming My Dreams With You
10. 40:11 04:30 Fairy Tale
11. 44:41 04:41 Angels in the Wilderness
12. 49:22 04:42 The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun
13. 54:04 04:57 I'm So Open
14. 59:01 07:16 Two Soldiers
15. 1:06:17 09:20 To Love Is to Bury
16. 1:15:37 07:41 Follower 2
- Encore -
17. 1:23:18 06:22 Powderfinger
18. 1:29:40 04:05 Floorboard Blues
show ends about 9:20 PM

= the Performers =
Jeff Bird: mandolin, harmonica, percussion;
Margo Timmins: vox;
Mike Timmins: acoustic and electric guitars.

= Recording Notes =
- Credits -
Recorded and edited by Jean Lerond <lerond@gmail.com>
Tagged by Randy Vogel <randy@funfolks.net>

- Source -
DPA4023 cardioids X/Y ~8' high, ~8' from St L PA (and ~10' from the crackling fireplace) >
Grace Lunatec V2 Pre/PS >
Benchmark AD2K+ @ 24-bits, 48 kHz >
Sound Devices 722 (portable stereo hard disc recorder)

- Transfer -
Sound Devices 722 (firewire out) >
Sony Sound Forge 9.0e build 441 (
edit: trim, add fade-ins/outs,
apply hard limiting (SYS preset, threshold decreased from -6.0 dB to -16.0 db) to loud sections of applause;
normalization:
Original L Channel Levels: -1.2 dB Peak; -32.8 dB RMS;
Original R Channel Levels: -3.7 dB Peak; -34.0 dB RMS;
Final L Channel Levels: -0.0 dB Peak; -29.5 dB RMS;
Final R Channel Levels: -0.0 dB Peak; -27.1 dB RMS;
resample to 44.1 kHz at highest quality setting;
reduce word length to 16-bits using triangular dither and high-pass noise-shaping;
track & extract .wav files) >
foobar2000 v0.9.5 (write RAFTSv1.6 tags,
rename files to LMA standard,
calculate and store album-level replay gain tags for each set) >
Trader's Little Helper (TLH) v2.3.1 (build 156) (
verify sector boundaries,
encode to FLAC level 8 via libFLAC v1.1.4 20070213,
verify new FLAC fingerprints,
compute md5 checksums for the newly tagged files) >
FLAC [393 MB]

- Notes -
~4 to 5:30 pm soundcheck and rehearsal (not recorded by me).
Alan and Pete didn't play, presumably because the performance space was too small!
Any distortion you hear is a product of the lackluster PA...