Blues Band "Blues In My Soul" demo, early 1985 Princeton, NJ Master: Original cassette provided by Hisham ElShakhs Conversion: Nakamichi CR-2A > Lunatec V3 (A/D) > Tascam DR-100 mkIII > WAV > Sound Studio 4.10.1 > xACT 2.50 > FLAC by Dave Mallick, October 2022 01. And So It Goes [07:34.011] 02. Severe Infatuation [02:55.242] 03. When It Hits You [02:37.791] 04. Glory, Glory [04:25.126] 05. Blues In My Soul [06:36.802] Total: [24:08.972] Blues Band is: John Popper - harmonica & vocals Dave Stern - guitar Brendan Hill - drums Sebastian Hill - bass History: This is the earliest known demo tape featuring members of who would eventually become Blues Traveler. John and Brendan had met in school in late 1983 and began to jam together at Brendan's house. After recruiting Brendan's brother Sebastian as a bassist and a few gigs together as "The Establishment", the original guitarist left. Enter guitarist Dave Stern, and a name change to "Blues Band". This demo was likely recorded sometime in early 1985, prior to Sebastian's graduation from Princeton High School later that year. It features the only known recordings of "When It Hits You" and the title track, "Blues In My Soul", studio or otherwise. Blues Band would go on to record one more demo - entitled simply "Jamdemo" - before changing bassists and guitarists one more time and becoming "Blues Traveler". Notes: I have converted this demo a couple of times before, but with 24-bit recordings being more standard and owning an outboard analog to digital converter, I thought I'd give it another shot. This is also the first time converting to FLAC, with proper tags and better playback support. Thanks once again to Ken Brownstein for splitting this auction with me on eBay all those years ago, and to Hisham ElShakhs for parting with this tape in the first place. App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned