OLD & IN THE WAY
Orpheum Theater
Boston MA
06-05-1973

01 Jon Scher intro
02 Old & in the Way Breakdown
03 Tragic Romance
04 The Willow Garden
05 Going to the Races
06 Muleskinner Blues
07 'Til the End of the World Rolls 'Round
08 Instrumental
09 Land of the Navajo
10 band intros
11 Pig in a Pen
12 Lonesome L.A. Cowboy
13 Hard Hearted
14 Panama Red
15 Wild Horses
16 Fanny Hill
17 The Hobo Song
18 High Lonesome Sound
19 Down Where the River Bends
20 Love Please Come Home
21 Lost
22 Knockin' on Your Door
23 crowd
24 White Dove
25 Blue Mule
26 pre-encore tuning
27 How Mountain Girls Can Love
28 Mississippi Moon
29 Orange Blossom Special

Source: This is a composite edit of AUD ID's 11889 & 83303. Thanks to the tapers!
http://db.etree.org/shn/11889
http://db.etree.org/shn/83303

Transfer: SHN & FLAC > TLH > WavMerge > Wavelab > CD-Wave > TLH > FLAC 1644 tagged.

Show notes: This is Vassar's first gig with OAITW, and Jerry's first performance at
the Boston Orpheum (of 20). Allsoundz - the taper of the 83303 source - states that
there was only one show (not early and late as previously listed) and that Doug Sahm
was the opening act. Allsoundz also recalled there was possibly a set-break somewhere
but this is not evident from the tapes; it appears the show might have been one long
set with a three-song encore.

Composite notes: For this show, both sources had pros & cons, and it appeared that the
show could benefit from a composite that joined the two together. Allsoundz tape 83303
has the benefit of being complete and with known lineage, but was recorded farther back
resulting in a more distant recording, with a lot of thumping near the mic. And, while
11889 is incomplete and with unknown number of tape generations, it was recorded closer,
delivering a nice aural picture of the concert. The 11889 taper appears to have been
a lot closer to the stage, perhaps with the mic right on the stage, as the between-song
banter from Spud and the boys can be heard clearly. 11889 was chosen for the bulk of the
show, with 83303 providing patches and the final part that was missing from 11889.

Allsoundz states that his tape is mono. It also appears that the 11889 original recording
was mono, as the Wav's are identical, albeit having been shifted out of phase, probably
from the few generations of re-recording. For both sources, DC-offsets were removed, left
and right channels were manually aligned, then each source was merged to mono for editing.
Both sources were apparently running slow; 83303 between 40 & 50 cents, and 11889 between
75 & 85 cents. Each source was speed-adjusted as best as possible given the difficulties
of dealing with these old tapes. It's probably not exact, but it's pretty close...

Lots of small edits were done to soften mic-bumps, attenuate clapping, repair drop-outs,
etc. Small FLAC size due to mono WAV data. Patches from 83303 added as follows: Willow
Garden 3:18 > 3:19, Lonesome L.A. Cowboy 4:29 > Hard Hearted 0:49, crowd end of Love
Please Come Home 2:39 > Lost 0:06, crowd end of Lost 3:38 > Knockin' on Your Door 0:18,
and crowd end of Knockin' on Your Door 3:04 > thru to end of the show. Enjoy! (Aug 2014)
