Charles Atkins
The Practice Sessions
Tom's Studio, Tallahassee, FL
May 18, 1993

ca1993-05-18.flac16

Taped by: SCopeland
Transfered by: SCopeland

Recorded via Yamaha 16 track SBD > 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.  

July 07 - nothing much to say right now, Enjoy! SCopeland 
	
01 As the Years Go Passing By
02 Nothing Takes the Place of You
03 Summertime
04 After the Storm
05 Light Up Above
06 Save the Children -walkthru
07 Save the Children

@ 23 minutes; 230 meg aiff or wav

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

Highlights: pretty much all of them

Notes:
Short session tonight - 3 slow covers and then 3 energetic originals. I think the night started with Charles practicing a song - Caught Up in the Rapture - that he was to perform at a wedding. The covers are mostly run-thrus and I am lax on the tape starts, so usually I would fade in on tape.

As the Years Go Passing BY, short version but great. You can tell right off that Charles is going to sing up a storm tonight. Track 2 - Nothing Takes the Place of You - is another outstanding run-thru. This take has a stop midway but closes strong. I could listen to Charles do these slow ones for hours. Summertime - this is supposed to be a walk-thru to show changes but Charles can't help but sing it, play it, and once he's going, Larry has to work to find space to get his parts in.

Next is the originals, starting with After the Storm - Charles and Larry having fun on the vamp. Track 5 - Light Up Above - Charles loves to pump the Rhodes on this; Larry loves clapping rhythms and harmonizing and maybe blows 1 lick the whole time, right at the end. Harty comes in for a solo eventually. Save the Children has a walkthru on Track 6, complete version on track 7. A guitar (Tom?) unplugs right off and it's mostly Charles, with a late solo by Harty. The tape stops after this but it sounds like Charles is doing an intro to another song. Don't know why I stopped taping.

Coming up soon is a new guitar player; and only 2 months more till Tom pulls out and we lose the great practice room. Looking back to the first session I posted here, 3-7-93, I'm amazed by all the music Charles and the Boys did in just a few months.
