Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys
The Borderline
London, UK

13th July 2012


Source: Sony M10, Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 mics [24 bit/96 kHz]
Edited with SoundForge 9.0 [eq., volumes & dithering to 16bit/44.1kHz]
Track splits CD Wave Editor, encoding to FLAC 8 & checksum Trader's Little Helper

Recorded by badger57, mastered by scdegraaf

Humbug had his gear all set up right in front of the sound desk, with an extendable pole for mics. I immediately checked that it was OK to add my owns mics to the pole. 
Anyway, the show started and right from the off we all knew we were in for something special. I was at the show in Bristol on Wednesday, but this was a totally different feel, a totally different type of audience - they were ready to ROCK, and Alejandro & The Band  certainly provided the music to allow them to do that. There were many rumours and whispers that Alejandros' good friend Mr Springsteen would be at the show, but this didn't happen. As it turned out any more rock would've brought the roof in on the place and he really wasn't missed.

A storming show, closed off by a fabulous rendition of Sway in recognition of the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary.
Hope it all came across in the recording, I had a great time.
Many thanks to Humbug for the use of his stand. 
 
Artwork included

Alejandro Escovedo - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Billy White - electric guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Daniel - bass, backing vocals
Chris Searles - drums, backing vocals

* w/Amy Speace backing vocals

Disc One [01:11:29]
1. Intro
2. Sally Was A Cop 
3. Anchor
4. Man Of The World
5. Tender Heart
6. Banter-> song intro
7. Sister Lost Soul
8. Song intro
9. Bottom Of The World
10. Song intro
11. San Antonio Rain
12. Band intros-> song intro
13. Sensitive Boys
14. Song intro
15. Down In The Bowery
16. Can't Make Me Run
17. I Wanna Be Your Dog-> Chelsea Hotel '78
18. Big Station

Disc Two [33:13]
1. Banter-> song intro
2. Always A Friend *
3. Crowd-> song intro
4. Sabor A Ti *
5. One More Time
6. Like A Hurricane
7. Sway