Cassette Tape #399

Transfer by Keith Kreider 08/20/2020

Source Info:
TDK D90 Cassette:Nakamichi ZX-7 > Sound Devices Mixpre-6 @ 24/96

Jim & Jesse McReynolds and The Virginia Boys
Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
March 19, 1983

Side A: 
01. (Intro)
02. Big Mon
03. Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me
04. I Want To Be Love
05. Theme Time
06. Sleepy-Eyed John
07. Are You Tired of Me My Darling 
08. Border Ride
09. Paradise (dropout gap in middle)
10. Better Times A-Coming
11. Cheyenne
12. It's A Lonesome Road
13. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
14. (Intro)
15. Leather Britches
16. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
17. She Left Me Standing On The Mountain
18. Bugle Call Rag
19. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
20. I Heard The Bluebirds Sing
21. Never On Sunday 
22. Cotton Mill Man    

Side B: 
01. Nine Pound Hammer
02. Instrumental (?)
03. A Beautiful Life
04. Over In The Gloryland
05. The Great Speckled Bird
06. Last Train To Clarksville
07. North Wind
08. Roll In My Baby's Arms
09. Theme Time
10. It's A Long, Long Way To The Top of The World
11. Better Times A-Coming
12. Johnny B. Goode
13. Bear Tracks
14. Orange Blossom Special
15. El Cumbanchero

Notes:  Cassette #399 features a March 19, 1983 set of performances by Jim & Jesse McReynolds and The Virginia Boys, recorded at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, IL.  A marvelous cross-section of some of Jim & Jesse's best songs are featured.  Jesse gives a master class in mandolin cross-picking, and Jim and Jesse harmonize together like no others.  The fidelity of the recording is nice and full, but alas, there are cuts between each track that rid the recording of any between song banter, undermines our ability to gain any knowledge of the band members, and which makes for a somewhat jarring listening experience.

--Mitchell Wittenberg

Listed as:
"J & J	3/19/1983	Old Town School of Folk Music Chicago,Ill	(c399)	35t"