Cowboy Junkies
Capitol Theatre
Port Hope, ON
February 11, 2001

Source: Soundboard-Audience Blend using SAW Pro
-Aud Source: Core Sound Biaurnal mics
-Soundboard tape ran out during Townes' Blues, last half of song is pure audience
  
DISK 1
Powderfinger
Good Friday
'Cause Cheap is How I Feel
Come Calling (His Song)
Small Swift Birds
Close My Eyes
First Recollection
Oregon Hill
Where Are You Tonight?
Hunted
Escape is So Simple
Hollow as a Bone
 
DISK 2
Anniversary Song 
I'm So Open 
Miles From Our Home
Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy: part III)
Misguided Angel
Townes' Blues

 
I have, over the years, experimented in different ways with expanding my duties as archivist. Cowboy Junkies played three shows in Canada in February, 2001, and I blended soundboard and audience tapes of each show to achieve a rich true-sounding live recording. The mixing was done with Saw Pro, blending about 65 percent to 70 percent of the soundboard source and the rest from the audience source. By expanding the waveforms to the smallest time platform, I was able to align them perfectly, a neat trick when neither source has time-code. I had to time-align each track to compensate for "drift," caused by having the audience recording about 100 feet back from the stage. The results came out quite well. Michael liked the tapes, but ultimately it was decided not to pursue this on a regular basis. 
 
I think this show, from February 11, 2001, was my favorite of the three shows the band performed that weekend. It was an interesting blend of songs. "Powderfinger" opened, promising a truly special evening. "Close Your Eyes" had just started to appear in the setlists, but it was then, and remains to this day, a rare tune for the band to play. "Escape is So Simple" is, of course, a song that can send me over the edge, a hauntingly beautiful tune that is one of Michael's best songs.  
 