The Dirt Band
My Father's Place
Old Roslyn, NY
07/02/1978

Pre-FM SBD feed > Nak 550 > Maxell UDXL2 (no NR) via Peter Hedeman

Transfer:  MC > Nak CR7-A (azimith adjust) > SBM-1 (s/pdif) > Lynx Studio Technology One (soundcard) > SoundForge 4.5 > CD Architect 4.0f > Red Book CDR

Re-Master:  CDR > WAV > Wavelab 6.10 (tracking; fades; remove DC offset) > FLAC

1. Dave McNamarra WLIR / Home On The Range intro > 
2. Cosmic Cowboy
3. Whoa Babe
4. In For the Night
5. Lights
6. Fish Song
7. Escaping Reality
8. Wild Nights
9. Honky Tonkin'
10. Band Intros
11. Way Downtown
12. ? (song inspired by trip to Russia)
13. John / Al guitar / violin duet
14. ?
15. Rocky Top
16. Mr. Bojangles
17. Bayou Jubilee >
18. Instrumental intro to >
19. Battle of New Orleans

Encore:
20. Encore banter >
21. Will The Circle Be Unbroken *

Encore 2:
22. Encore 2 banter >
23. Promised Land *

A nice recording, somewhat compressed as many cassette recordings from this period are.  The levels were too high during the intro, but about 2:50 into Cosmic Cowboy they are brought down, and then back up, where they stay for the rest of the show.  These transitions have been smoothed somewhat.  A few patch cord pops were muted.  A tape flip between Honkey Tonkin' and the band intros has been cross faded.  The tape was stopped before each encore.  It's unlikely that any music is missing, since there were few minutes of crowd noise each time.  These short breaks have been retained, but most of the crowd noise removed.

Jimmy Faden - Harmonica
John McEuen -- Acoustic Guitar
Richard Hathaway - Electric Bass
Merle Bregante - Drums
Al Garth - Violin, Sax
Jeff Hanna - Vocals

* w/ vocals by members of Louisiana LeRoux 

Louisiana LeRoux, sometimes called simply LeRoux, was a pop/rock ensemble from Baton Rouge that was most popular in the late 70's, and still tours today.  http://www.laleroux.com/

If burning to CD, suggest splitting before Track 20.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 05/07/12