Charles Atkins
The Practice Sessions
Tom's Studio, Tallahassee, FL
March 25, 1993

Recorded via a Yamaha 16 track board to 2 track cassette mono. 
Digitized using Griffin iMic and Final Vinyl at 32 bit (transferred to wav/flac at 16 bit) using my G4 iBook while camped at Torreya State Park, Florida.  Scott Copeland - December 2006

Trk	Name                  Time (seconds)
01      Can't Get Enuff #       329
02      Masquerade              212
03      Shadow of Your Smile    164
04      Shadow of Your Smile    137
05      God Bless The Child     136
06      Sit In F                263
07      Sit In	                226
08      I Got The Blues	        222
09      DownHome Blues The Lick 228
10      DownHome Blues          228
11      Shadow... noodling      176
total time @ 39 minutes, 392 megabytes

# new, first time recorded

Players:
Charles Atkins - keyboards and vocals
The Blues Boys
Larry Laseur - harmonica
Harty Wiedemann - guitar
Tom Henning - guitar


Notes:
Not much to say - short session. Time was spent breaking down some tunes, or learning the lick. Sit In F is a hoot - for all those times Larry asked "What key is this in?". And so Player became PlayeE, or GLight Up Above, etc. It didn't help :)  I also had a database of songs with title, key, author, copyright status and disposition if ours, dates recorded, and song type (blues, gospel, kids). Something you will notice, as in other sessions, is how Charles will repeat a song (Shadow of Your Smile) but change the inflection and character of the voice each time. After all, he did get his bachelor's in music at FSU with principle in voice. Track 5 God Bless The Child - Charles explains how he rebuilt the song when he first learned it off a cheap tape player but couldn't make out all the parts.

