Blues Traveler
"Let's Travel" demo, 1988
Recorded at Skylab Studios, Englishtown, NJ

Master:
Original demo tape>DAT
by Ken Brownstein, original tape provided by Hisham ElShakhs

Conversion:
Tascam DA-20>Egosys U2A>Sound Studio 2.1.1b3>AIFF>xACT 1.4d24
by Dave Mallick [greenone@bluestraveler.net]

CD 1 [48:49.74]
01. Gotta Get Mean  [04:05.33]
02. Corn Mash Blues [03:44.27]
03. Alone           [07:28.12]
04. Mother Funker   [07:18.55]
05. But Anyway      [05:12.41]
06. Shotgun Shell   [06:14.32]
07. Slow Change     [07:54.57]
08. Black Cat Jam   [06:51.42]

Notes:
- Left-channel weirdness at 3:33-3:36 of t05, small dropout at 5:04.

This is not the band's earliest demo but it was their most popular
and widespread back before the days of CD and lossless trading.
Recorded sometime in mid-1988, it's believed to be only the second
demo recording featuring the original band lineup of John (billed
simply as "Popper" in the liner notes), Brendan, Chan and Bobby.
This marks the only known studio recordings of "Corn Mash Blues",
"Mother Funker", and "Black Cat Jam".

A SHN copy of this demo circulated as early as 2000, but the tracks
were out of order (side B went before side A), the first track cut in,
and the last track cut out. Several years later, an auction popped up
on eBay with an old classmate selling this demo and the 1985 "Blues In
My Soul"; after bidding against each other for a few days, Ken and I
decided to declare a truce and split the goods but make copies for
each other. We won, he chose the "Let's Travel" demo, and copied it to
DAT soon after...upon which I promptly forgot about it. Until now.

Thanks to Hisham for being willing to part with a high-school memory,
and to Ken for helping me blow an embarrassing sum of money on two
decrepit cassettes whose combined age exceeds my own...

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