Cowboy Junkies
Heritage House,
Littleriver, CA
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

- One Set [1:33:45] -
track elapsed time  title
----- ------- ----- -----
01.    00:00  01:25  [7:45 PM announcements & introduction]
02.    01:25  03:29  Cutting Board Blues
03.    04:55  04:01  Black-eyed Man
04.    08:56  06:13  Bea's Song
05.    15:09  04:09  My Wild Child
06.    19:18  06:15  Tired Eyes
07.    25:33  03:53  Rake Â»
08.    29:26  05:21  Flying Shoes
09.    34:47  05:24  Dreaming My Dreams With You
10.    40:11  04:30  Fairy Tale
11.    44:41  04:41  Angels in the Wilderness
12.    49:22  04:42  The Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun
13.    54:04  04:57  I'm So Open
14.    59:01  07:16  Two Soldiers
15.  1:06:17  09:20  To Love Is to Bury
16.  1:15:37  07:41  Follower 2
- Encore -
17.  1:23:18  06:22  Powderfinger
18.  1:29:40  04:05  Floorboard Blues
show ends about 9:20 PM


= the Performers =
Jeff Bird: mandolin, harmonica, percussion;
Margo Timmins: vox;
Mike Timmins: acoustic and electric guitars.


= Recording Notes =
- Credits -
Recorded and edited by Jean Lerond <lerond@gmail.com>
Tagged by Randy Vogel <randy@funfolks.net>

- Source - 
DPA4023 cardioids X/Y ~8' high, ~8' from St L PA (and ~10' from the crackling fireplace) >
Grace Lunatec V2 Pre/PS >
Benchmark AD2K+ @ 24-bits, 48 kHz >
Sound Devices 722 (portable stereo hard disc recorder)

- Transfer - 
Sound Devices 722 (firewire out) >
Sony Sound Forge 9.0e build 441 (
  edit: trim, add fade-ins/outs,
    apply hard limiting (SYS preset, threshold decreased from -6.0 dB to -16.0 db) to loud sections of applause;
  normalization:
    Original L Channel Levels: -1.2 dB Peak; -32.8 dB RMS;
    Original R Channel Levels: -3.7 dB Peak; -34.0 dB RMS;
    Final L Channel Levels: -0.0 dB Peak; -29.5 dB RMS;
    Final R Channel Levels: -0.0 dB Peak; -27.1 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 tags,
  rename files to LMA standard,
  calculate and store album-level replay gain tags for each set) >
Trader's Little Helper (TLH) v2.3.1 (build 156) (
  verify sector boundaries,
  encode to FLAC level 8 via libFLAC v1.1.4 20070213,
  verify new FLAC fingerprints,
  compute md5 checksums for the newly tagged files) >
FLAC [393 MB]

- Notes -
~4 to 5:30 pm soundcheck and rehearsal (not recorded by me).
Alan and Pete didn't play, presumably because the performance space was too small!
Any distortion you hear is a product of the lackluster PA...
