Ry Cooder: Cotati 1984 (Soundboard) FLAC

August 4, 1984 (the day my wife and I married)
Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA
soundboard > high end desktop Sony cassette deck > master cassette (Maxell MX90 metal tape recorded with Dolby B on)

transfer: JVC KD-V6 (playback, with Dolby off) > Sek'd Prodif Plus soundcard > Sound Forge 8 (normalize, fade in and out, track splits) > BIAS Sound Soap > .wav files > FLAC level 8 encoding, align on sector boundaries

OU: I, Easy Ed, was at the show with my cassette deck connected to the soundboard - this is not a multigenerational cassette received in trade years ago. This is my master soundboard cassette. -Recorded by Easy Ed.

disc one
1. Little Sister
2. Smack Dab In The Middle
3. Go Home, Girl
4. Things Can't Talk
5. You Better Have Jesus
6. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
TRT 41:13

disc two
1. Available Space
2. Goin' To Brownsville
3. Alimony (unexplained gap of just over 1 second in this song)
4. Money Honey
5. Down In The Boondocks
6. Why Don't You Try Me?
7. The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
8. Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
9. Never Make Your Move Too Soon
TRT 51:28

Ry Cooder - guitar, mandolin, vocals
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Jorge Calderon - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Bobby King - tenor vocals
Willie Greene, Jr. - bass vocals

Since the original recording was made with Dolby B on, which adds 10dB boost to the high frequencies, yet the playback was done without Dolby B on (which would have cut the high frequencies by 10dB) I took the liberty of applying some very slight noise (hiss) reduction using BIAS Sound Soap. If anyone wants the recording without this processing please contact me and I'd be happy to oblige. I usually am against offering original recordings with any processing but I was very light-handed here.
The venue for this show was The Cotati Cabaret in Cotati, CA. It was a small club that held about 300 people. Cotati is a small town located about an hour north of San Francisco.
Cotati is next to Sonoma State University, which was called Granola State University back in the days. SSU is where the great 1973 recording of Old & In The Way with Ramblin' Jack Elliott opening was made (which I and many other people have). There is a great poster of the O&ITW show, my copy of which is long gone :<(

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Ry Cooder: Popgala 1973 (Broadcast) FLAC

POPGALA 1973-03-10
Voorburg, NL
De Vliegermolen
Recorded from TV -> Reel to Reel machine -> SoundForge -> CDWave -> FLAC

1-Roosevelt In Trinidad
2-Did He Wha Did He
3-Paris Texas
4-Now That I'm Going Down

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Ry Cooder: Cleveland (early 80s?) VG Aud (FLAC

"Ry Cooder Again"
From Vinyl bootleg in '80s
Matrix# : VB003
Venue : Cleveland (from sleeve info)
Date : unknown
Quality : Very good audience recording

1. Tamp'em up solid
2. Fool for a cigarette
3. Crazy 'bout an automobile
4. Billy the kid
5. Ax sweet mama
6. Hard ridin' papa

This source is from B side of old vinyl bootleg "Ry Cooder Again". A side is from WMMS FM Broadcast on 12 December 1972 in Cleveland,OH. I remember this much better source was upped here in dime some times ago. The other day, I turned on this disc and realized B side is very good, unique source and Ry is playing brilliantly. I've never heard this source in anywhere else. This sounds like recorded in open-air festival. Any more info is appreciated. Enjoy!

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Ry Cooder: New York 1974 (FM Source) FLAC

- solo
The Bottom Line
New York City
May 16, 1974
This venue and concert is well known as "Traverin' Man" boot. This one was aired on FM in late '70 in Japan. The sound quality is much better(stereo FM!!) than the bootleg, but less incomplete.
FM > Cassette tape master(Dolby B) > Play Back(Dolby B) > Sound Blaster > Mephisto(gain adjustment) > FLAC

1. Too Tight Blues No.2
2. FDR in Trinidad
3. The Tattle
4. Crazy About An Automobile
5. I Can Tell By The Way You Smell
6. Kentucky Blues
7. One Meatball(Fade in)
8. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
9. Preacher
10. Vigilante Man

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