Dan Bern
The Bottom Line
New York, NY
8/1/1998

Original recording:  Neumann TLM-170 -> Sonosax SX-M2 -> Tascam DA-P1 (@16/48)

Transfer:  Sony R500->Sound Devices 722 (digital patch captured at 24 bit/48khz)

Mastering in Soundforge Audio Studio 9.0c - volume normalization, loud clap removal and 48->44.1 sample rate conversion with interpolation accuracy 4, anti-alias filter.  All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits, then dithered back to 16 bits using highpass triangular dither algorithm with high pass contour noise shaping.  Tracked in CDWav.

Early Show
1.  Joe Torre
2.  Waiting For Van Gogh
3.  banter - nice just waking up here
4.  New American Language
5.  Pride Goes Before A Fall
6.  Most American Men
7.  Famous Painter
8.  One Thing Real
9.  Oh Sister
10. Too Late To Die Young
11. Kurt
12. King Of The World ->
13. Hannibal
14. Wasteland
15. banter - sequel
16. Pins & Needles
17. One Dance
18. Branford Marsalis

Late Show
1. intro
2. One Song
3. Art On The Run
4. Go To Sleep
5. banter - shadows, me and my van
6. I'm Not The Guy
7. Never Fall In Love
8. Monica
9. Rome
10.banter - new songs aren't very good
11.Train Station Gilberti
12.banter - Amalfi
13.What's The Difference Between Boys & Girls (partial)
14.banter - not really a keeper
15.Oh Sister
16.Jew From Kentucky
17.Tiger Woods
18.banter-a request from an old friend
19.Street Television
20.Talking Alien Abduction Blues ->
21.Estelle
22.thanks/encore break
23.If The Dodgers Had Stayed In Brooklyn
24.Marilyn ->
25.Jerusalem ->
26.No Missing Link
27.Kids Prayer

Taper's comments - 8/27/2009:
OK I FINALLY got to the next Dan Bern show of my BARN archive restoration series -- BARN8.  Summer 2009 was busy for me, having attended 2 big music festivals so far (with one more to go!) filling my plate of music to process and distribute online.  Also, this particular project I picked up and put down over many weeks, as it did require a lot of tedious work leveling out the volume between the crowd, the music, and Dan's speaking parts for each song, as well as removing (sometimes when possible) really annoying loud claps during songs.  So I hope you enjoy the fruits of my labor, and this should be a VAST improvement if somehow you had gotten this show from me in the past.

BARN4 was a recording of the first time I ever saw Dan perform a full set on his own, while BARN7 was the first time I ever saw Dan, as an opener for Ani DiFranco.  Well, on the night of the BARN4 recording (7/31/98), I attended the late show only, but was so impressed that I immediately decided that I had to come back to see BOTH shows the next night (the same thing happened when I went to see Medeski Martin & Wood for the first time in 1995!).  So this represents both the early and late sets from the second night at the legendary/infamous Bottom Line on August 1, 1998.  Lots of reasons to enjoy this show -- a very very focused and tight early show, a mini set of strange (one time only, I believe) performances of (admittedly not very good) songs he'd just written in Italy, some rarities, requests, and finally a bunch of crowd pleasers at the end.

Recorded, mastered, and tracked by Scott Bernstein.