Doc Watson at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, TN on 3-30-96 

This is a stealth, audience, analog recording from my seat- pretty close to center of this small venue.  I had the microphone up my sleeve with just the tip of it sticking out. 

Lineage:  Sony D-5 Pro Walkman with Sony ECM-909 microphone on TDK SA-X100 cassette tape w/ Dolby B, transferred to computer via SB Audigy A [E400] (Dolby off) and then encoded to WAV using Cool Edit 2000 and finally to Flac using Flac Frontend.  Some fading was used at the beginning and end of each side of the tape during transfer with Cool Edit, which consequently (and coincidently) ended up being the first and second sets of this show. Therefore each set is approximately 50 minutes in length and should be burned to 2 CDs in this manner.

The Historic Bijou Theater is a small theater built around the turn of the century and has fairly lively acoustics so if someone in the theater talks or sneezes it could be heard by all.  On this night at the end of March in 1996, there seemed to be a prevalence of people with colds so you can hear coughing here and there.  Also, the clapping of the audience is abnormally loud, and you can hear cheers or comments from people through-out.  But the sound, from my stealthy equipment is quiet good!

Adjustment of the volume by the house and by me from the time Doc Watson steps on stage until about a minute or so into the first song is quite noticeable.  I tried some adjustments with Cool Edit but was not satisfied and so I pretty much left things the way they were.  If anyone would like to further edit this show and repost this torrent with this section of the concert corrected and a decrease in the volume of the audience’s applause, I am not at all opposed.  Furthermore, I am not sure of some of the song titles.  I have included a (?) to indicate this uncertainty.  If anyone can clarify what these are I would be obliged. 

Please share in its original lossless format. 

Set I
01 I’ll Rise When the Rooster Crows
02 Storms on the Ocean
03 Bobo Bill
04 Instrumental (?)
05 Never See My Home Again 
06 [Banter]
07 Cory’s Gone 
08 [Banter]
09 Ten Miles to Buchanan (?)
10 Blue Eyed Jane
11 He’s in the Jailhouse Now
12 That Aggravatin’ Beauty
13 You Don’t Love Me Anymore
14 Florida Blues

Set II
01 Going Up That Country (?)
02 Blue Railroad Train
03 Instrumental (?)
04 East Bound Freight Train
05 Stoney Fork (?)
06 Fulsom Prison Blues
07 Everybody’s Baby but Mine’s Coming Home
08 Special Angel
09 St. James Infirmary
10 Sweet Georgia Brown
11 Greenville Trestle High
12 Fill My Way Everyday With Love
13 Tennessee Stud