Tony Rice Unit Mechanics Hall Worcester, MA April 8, 1990 Source: SBD – AUD Matrix > ? Recorded by Billy Wolf to DAT from Sean Hawkins Transfer: Casio DA-7 > Tascam CD-RW 700 (pass through) > M-Audio 24/96 > @ 24 Bit to Wavelab > to 16 bit CD WAVE > FLAC Transfers and Seeded to bt.etree.net by Bill Koucky January 2007 Band: Tony Rice –Guitar Wyatt Rice – Guitar Ronnie Simpkins – Bass Ricky Simpkins – Fiddle, Banjo Jimmy Gaudreau – Mandolin Guests: Billy Wolf - Piano Alison Krauss – Fiddle Dawn Brat – Vocal Northern Lights Disc 1 73:12 1. Intro 2. Blue Railroad Train 3. Nine Pound Hammer 4. On A Winter’s Night 5. Why You Been Gone So Long 6. Band Intros 7. Dusty Miller 8. Billy Grey 9. Little Sadie 10. Sixteen Miles 11. Sally Goodin / - Intro Billy Wolf - 12. Four Strong Winds 13. Tony Introduces “The Bluegrass Unit” Exit Tony, Enter Alison Krauss 14. I’ll Sail My Ship Alone 15. Daybreak In Dixie 16. I’m Just A Used To Be To You 17. I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome 18. I Thought I Heard You Callin’ My Name 19. Blackberry Blossom 20. This Morning At Nine Disc 2 73:31 1. Intro Dawn Brat 2. I’ll Never Grow Tired Of You 3. The Cookoo Bird - Exit Dawn Brat - 4. Lonesome Road Blues -Tony Rice Returns - 5. Clouds Of Love 6. Flint Hill Special 7. Little Maggie 8. Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone 9. Mercantile wrap - Billy Wolf Returns - 10. Summer Wages 11. Cold On The Shoulder 12. White Dove 13. Shadows 14. Tony gives thanks 15. Me & My Guitar 16. Crowd, more thanks Encore: - Enter Northern Lights - 17. Will The Circle Be Unbroken Notes: Afternoon show. Northern Lights Opened. Tony mentions Mechanics Hall as being his favorite venue America to play in. Sources in the data base list this show as AUD, SBD and Matrix. After a close listen it seems most likely to be a Matrix recorded by Billy Wolf for the band. It is mentioned by Jimmy that the band was recording the show, this must be the tape. This is fantastic recording. After another close listen in the second transfer there were two more cuts at approximately 45 minute increments. This leads me to believe that the master source tape was a cassette. These cuts were during crowd between songs and were smoothed over with crossfades.