John Hartford
July 31, 1990  (1990-07-31)
Sweetwater
Mill Valley, California

Soundboard cassette master that's excellent sound quality and features David Grisman as a special guest. This show has been shared here before but this is from a new higher-resolution transfer and has more lineage details.

House stereo soundboard mix > Nakamichi DR10 > Maxell XLII-S90 cassette master (no Dolby).

Transfer (grner1 - 2022-04-26): Nakamichi Dragon > Sound Devices MixPre-6 II at 96kHz / 32 bit float resolution > Pro Tools (normalization, minor seamless fixes, tracking and down-sampling to 96/24 and 44.1/16 file sets - no equalization or noise reduction) > AIFF files > xACT (Flac level 8 files, tagged with sector boundaries verified on the 16/44.1 files).

01 [cuts in] Sally Goodin 5:30
02 talk 0:33
03 Short Life Of Trouble 3:26
04 Try Me One More Time 5:47
05 fiddle instrumental 4:27
06 Skippin' In The Mississippi Dew 4:21
07 talk 0:34 (David Grisman intro)
08 Doin' My Time 3:28
09 Miss Ferris 8:20
10 New Love Warms My Heart 3:07 [lead vocals Jamie Hartford]
11 Boogie 5:57
12 Steamboat Whistle Blues 1:31 [flip at 46:29]
13 talk 0:27
14 Nobody Eats At Linebaugh's Anymore 3:32
15 band intros 0:46
16 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 3:12
17 encore break 2:23
18 John calls and fiddles a barn dance > 8:44
19 fiddle instrumental > 2:45
20 faster fiddle instrumental > 2:56
21 The Sweetwater Waltz > 3:22
22 final thanks and applause 0:25
total - 75:32

John Hartford with:
Jamie Hartford - mandolin
Bill Amatneek - bass
and special guest David Grisman - mandolin (on the entire set)

Notes: The flip in track 12 is seamlessly spliced together to be barely noticeable, but a couple of verses of the song are unfortunately missing.

Many masters have been left with me to share when I have time to transfer them. This is one of those recordings. THANKS to David Hardy for mix and source tape and to Professor Goody for verifying the pitch. Please support the artists and live venues any way that you can. Enjoy and SHARE!