Peter Rowan's Reggaebilly!
High Sierra Music Festival
Main Stage
Quincy, CA
6/7/2002

Original master recording Neumann TLM-170 (cardiods) -> Apogee AD1000 -> Teac DA-P20 DAT (master @ 16/48)

DAT playback:  Sony R-500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/48)

Mastered: Soundforge Pro 10.0c - *All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits*.  Volume normalization, Sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter.  Then dithered to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, with high dither settings.  Tracked in CDWav.

1.  intro
2.  Natural Mystic
3.  banter - one I wrote some years ago
4.  Panama Red
5.  batner - songs from 
6.  Pullin' The Devil By The Tail
7.  Angel Island
8.  I Don't Want To Live Without Your Love
9.  Little Maggie
10. Cuckoo Bird (cut)
11. (cuts back into) No Woman, No Cry
12. Wayfaring Stranger
13. Blue Mountain (Every Man)
14. banter - happy to play
15. Fetch Wood, Carry Water
16. outro

Peter Rowan - guitar
Don Grant - keys
Darol Anger - fiddle
Billy Bright - guitar
Bryn Bright - bass
Ras Iginga - drums

I found these photos of this show online:
http://www.pbase.com/caya3251/070602&page=all


Taper Notes:
Here's a tasty little nugget I dug out of my collection -- BARN112 presents a hybrid bluegrass/reggae combo.  From my first trip to the incredible High Sierra Music Festival, I was lucky enough to witness Peter Rowan's current project (at the time) called Reggaebilly (also the title of his album from around that time).  This band was basically a mash up of some bluegrass folks and some reggae folks playing bluegrass-influenced reggae.  Yes, some of your purists out there may turn up your collective noses at this show, but if you like either bluegrass or reggae music, I think you'll find something to love on here.

The playing is SO tasteful, and the song selection -- just perfect -- reggae classics like "Natural Mystic" and "No Woman, No Cry" share the stage with bluegrass classics like "Panama Red", "Little Maggie", "The Cuckoo Bird", and "Wayfaring Stranger".

For anyone who doesn't know, Peter Rowan was part of the lineup of "Old And In The Way", the original Bluegrass jamband, featuring none other than Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, and Vasser Clemens.

Enjoy!

Scott



Recorded, transferred (August 2011), mastered (12/11-12/2011), and posted (12/13/2011) by Scott Bernstein.