Uncle Earl
2006-07-28
Lyons, CO - Planet Bluegrass - RockyGrass - Moongrass

http://www.uncleearl.net

KC Groves          - guitar, vocals
Abigail Washburn   - banjo, vocals
Rayna Gellert      - fiddle, focals
Kristin Andreassen - guitar, feet, vocals
Erin Coats         - bass

with on various tracks

Scott Nygaard     - guitar
Ben ?             - bass
Casey Driessen    - fiddle
Tristan Clarridge - cello
?                 - cello
Sarah Jarosz      - mandolin, banjo
Tony Trischka     - banjo
Aoife O'Donovan   - vocals
Sharon Gilchrist  - ? not sure if she ever joined


01. < intro >
02. Walking In My Sleep
03. < instrumental >
04. Stacker Lee
05. Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
06. < instrumental >
07. The Last Goodbye
08. Wallflower
09. Julianne Johnson
10. Ida Red
11. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (The Lass of Loch Royal)
12. Walk Along, John, To Kansas
13. I Still Miss Someone
14. Botin' Up Sandy
15. Warfare
16. Coffee's Cold
17. < instrumental >
18. Keys To The Kingdom


NOTES

Challenging recording environment, with a fairly quiet PA and a LOUD, boisterous (and a fair percentage, IMO, drunkard) audience.  And I flubbed two key settings in preparing for the recording:  I thought I was running at 16-bit and so had my levels set aggressively for the music (and not the LOUD audience), and I forgot to engage the R-4's on-board limiter.  The result: clipping artifacts during some of the applause and hooting and hollering between songs, with a couple spots of clipping artifacts during the actual music.  Doh!  Oh, well...live and learn - pay attention to the bit-depth and engage the limiter when needed!

Taper        : Brian Skalinder / bskalinder@yahoo.com
Location     : ~3' LOC, ~8 rows back, ~5' up (seated audience)
Mic Config   : XY (cardioids, 0cm, 90º)
Source       : AKG C414B-XLS > Oade Transparent MOD Edirol R-4
Record Format: 24-bit, 48 kHz
Conversion   : Edirol R-4 > USB > PC
Edit         : Adobe Audition v1.5 (compression), R8Brain Free v1.9 (resample, dither), Audacity v1.2.4 (fades)
Final Format : 16-bit, 44.1 kHz
Track        : CD-Wave