Dan Bern
Highline Ballroom
New York, NY
2/20/2011

Neumann TLM-170 (cardoid, rear of main floor, slightly left of center) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (removing hundreds of very loud claps during songs manually; volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings); Tracked in CDWav.

1.  tuning
2.  Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
3.  Crying Time (Roy Orbison)
4.  banter - huge in North Carolina
5.  Grandma Blew A 0.2
6.  banter - bringing back Common Rotation
7.  Turning Over ->
8.  Breathe *
9.  banter - change
10. Lou Gehrig's Disease
11. One Piece At A Time (Johnny Cash)
12. banter - a songbook, pick-a-song
13. Baby Bye Bye +
14. One Thing Real +
15. Black Tornado +
16. Jerusalem +
17. Alburqueque Lullaby -> +
18. I'm A Lonesome Fugitive (Merle Haggard) +
19. band intros/encore break
20. banter - NY vs. Philly
21. Joyce and Galarraga
22. Osama In Obamaland
23. God Said No ->
24. Sylvia's Mother (Shel Silverstein)


Tracks 1-6 solo
rest of show with Common Rotation and special guest Jason Crosby backing Dan

* = w/"I Wanna Hold Your Hand" tease
+ = w/Wil Masisak on vocals (just track 13) and guitar/vocals for the rest (I can't recall if Will played on the encores or not)

Recorded, Mastered, Tracked, and posted by Scott Bernstein

Notes:  This show required a LOT of mastering work -- there was an INCREDIBLY loud clapper who decided to stand next to me starting about 1/2 way into the show (and you know who you are).  And being that he was so close to my mics, his claps were often twice as loud as the music (or maybe more).  So it took me about 2 days to go through and remove EACH AND EVERY clap of his so that they weren't jarring to your ears.  Not to single him out, there were other loud clappers whose claps I had to remove or minimize, some door front slams and other random noise that I did my best to eliminate or minimize.  The result should be very very pleasing to your ears!