Los Lobos
50th Annual Castroville Artichoke Festival
Main Stage
Castroville, CA
3 pm, Sunday, May 17, 2009

- One Set [1:40:10] -
track elapsed time  title
----- ------- ----- -----
01.    00:00  01:26  [3:04 pm Announcer welcomes the band onstage]
02.    01:26  06:46  The Neighborhood
03.    08:12  03:26  Don\'t Worry Baby
04.    11:38  03:19  Come On, Let\'s Go
05.    14:57  04:48  Chuco\'s Cumbia $
06.    19:45  03:09  Evangeline
07.    22:54  05:15  Luz de Mi Vida $
08.    29:09  04:29  The Fat Man
09.    32:38  04:30  Shakin\' Shakin\' Shakes
10.    37:08  03:31  Ooh! My Head
11a.   40:39  10:41  Papa Was a Rolling Stone (introduction) Â» I Can\'t Understand Â» Oye Como Va
11b.   51:20  01:06  [banter]
12.    52:26  05:27  Let\'s Say Goodnight @*^
13.    57:53  03:12  Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio @*#
14.  1:01:05  02:32  Soy Mexico-Americano @* 
15.  1:03:37  04:52  Volver Volver @*
16.  1:08:29  05:30  I Got Loaded (w/Lovelight verse)
17.  1:13:59  06:32  Cumbia Raza @$
18.  1:20:31  09:19  La Bamba Â» Good Lovin\' Â» La Bamba
set ends 4:30 pm ... band heads offstage ... back by 4:33 pm
- Encore -
19.  1:29:50  05:50  Mas y Mas Â»
20.  1:35:40  04:30  Cinnamon Girl
show ends 4:45 pm


= the Performers =
Steve Berlin: keyboards, baritone saxophone, ^ tenor saxophone;
Cougar Estrada: drums (except *);
David Hidalgo: guitar, lead and harmony vox, @ accordion, percussion;
Conrad Lozano: bass, harmony vox;
Louis Perez: guitar, harmony vox, $ jarana, * drums;
Cesar Rosas: guitar, # 12-string guitar, lead and harmony vox.


= Recording Notes =
- Credits -
Recorded, edited and tagged by Jean Lerond <lerond@gmail.com>

- Source -
DPA 4023 cardioids (X/Y ~90 degrees, ~9 ft high, ~45\' back, inline with outside part of St.R PA) ->
Sound Devices 722 (portable stereo hard disc recorder) @ 24-bits, 96 kHz (record)

- Transfer -
Sound Devices 722 (firewire out) ->
Sony Sound Forge 9.0e build 441 (
  edit: trim, add fade-ins/outs,
    apply paragraphic EQ (low shelf at 20 dB to remove infrasonic rumble),
  normalization:
    Original Levels: -8.0 dB Peak; -28.3 dB RMS;
  resample to 44.1 kHz at highest quality setting;
  reduce word length to 16-bits using triangular dither and high-pass noise-shaping;
  track & extract .wav files) ->
foobar2000 v0.9.5 (write RAFTSv1.6 file tags,
  rename files to RAFTS standard,
  calculate and store album-level replay gain tags) ->
Trader\'s Little Helper (TLH) v2.4.1 (build 160) (
  verify sector boundaries,
  encode to FLAC level 8 via libFLAC v1.2.1 20070917,
  compute md5 checksum for tagged files) ->
FLAC [501 MB]

- Src Notes -
Los Lobos performed in a big open space, about the size of an empty city block, with a high stage set up along one side of the space. A small PA was set up on each side, 2 sub cabinets topped by 3 midrange units. The soundboard was about 120\' back, under a ~10x10 pop-up tarp in the sun. Based on the severe wind phasing I heard from that position during the preceding act, I decided not to tape from the board. So I scouted about during the opening act and ended up picking a spot far to Stage Right, directly inline with one of the small PA speakers, ~45\' back. Kinda weird, but the best I thought I could do given the circumstances.

- audio disc splits -
24-bit t11 split in order to append banter for t12 onto 16-bit audio disc 2
t01-t11a [51:20]
t11b-t20 [48:50]