Railroad Earth
Variety Playhouse
Atlanta, GA
June 05, 2008

Source: Microtech Gefell 210 Hypercardioids (DINa) > Hydra Silver clad XLRs > Sound Devices 722 (40Hz/12dB low cut filter) @ 24bits/96KHz
Location: ~35 feet from center stage @ ~9.5'
Lineage:  SD722 > Cool Edit Pro 2 gain, fades, dithered, resampled to 16bits/44.1KHz > CDWave >Flac Frontend Level 6 > FLAC16
Taped, transferred, tracked, encoded by R Graham

Set I Disc 1 49:21

01. Been Down This Road
02. Dandelion Wine
03. Elko
04. You Never Know *
05. Dixieland
06. The Hunting Song
07. Bringin' My Baby Back Home *

Set II: Disc 2 40:53

01. New Lee Highway Blues>
02. Fiddlee
03. Old Man and the Land
04. The Forecast
05. Bird in a House
06. Peace on Earth

Set II: Disc 3 50:48

01. Goat
02. Waggin' the Dog *
03. The Green Roofs of Eireann > Like a Buddha
04. Right in Tune
05. Crowd

Encore:

06. Mighty River

*=First time played

Comments:  

Some occasional banter about the heat.  The AC was not working well, and it was definitely uncomfortable just in the room.  Kudos to the band, it must have been blistering under the stage lights.

An outstanding show.  RRE is one of those rare bands that every time I see them impress me more and more how they are genuinely tapping into the sort of musical interplay, fusion of styles, and creative synergy that I just have not felt strongly much since the Dead in their better days.  Go see a show, a recording just cannot capture the complexity of how good these shows really are.

Thanks to the Variety Playhouse for continuing to be one of the premier East Coast venues When it comes to the staff's frendly attitude and freedom extended to tapers at shows where artists allow open taping.

Thanks Ira.

Enjoy!  RobertNC
