Bruce Hornsby

Here's an oldie (by Bruce's standards anyway)...guaranteed to get your toes a-tappin'...

Bruce Hornsby
 
Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Telluride, CO
6-24-89

SBD> Cassette Master> DAT> CD-R> EAC> Wave Lab 4.0> FLAC

Disc 1
1. Western Skyline
2. Not Fade Away
3. Red Plains >
4. I Know You Rider
5. Every Little Kiss#^
6. Road Not Taken* >
Workin' In A Coalmine*
7. Jacob's Ladder*#^
8. Mandolin Rain*#
9. Au Privave*#
10. Lakes Of Ponchatrain*#$

Disc 2
1. Stranger In A Strange Land+
2. Wild Horses+
3. I've Just Seen A Face+
4. The Way It Is&
5. Valley Road+^
6. Quinn The Eskimo+ >
Idol With The Golden Head+ >
Quinn The Eskimo+

# w/ Mark O'Connor
^ w/ Jerry Douglas
* w/ Bela Fleck
$ w/ Paul Brady
+ w/ New Grass Revival (which includes Bela Fleck & Sam Bush)
& w/ Bela Fleck & Sam Bush (but not the entire New Grass Revival)

Notes:
This one will cure both your Hornsby AND your bluegrass fixes!  I received this one some years ago and recently broke it out of the mothballs...I really forgot how good it was.  While I'm really enjoying all of the recent Bruce shows, I thought it would be nice to shake it up with some early Bruce.  In regards to quality, this one is not on the same level as some of the '95-99 DSBDs that have been posted, but it's solid nevertheless.  The mix is not the greatest...a bit on the low end for me personally, but I'm content jacking the bass up a little bit.  What this one lacks in the hi-qual department, it more than makes up for it in a super high-octane performance. Disc 2 just cooks!!!  This is also a great historical documentation of relatively early Bruce and his first live venture away from the constraints of his then 'Top 40' tag.  

My copy (which I believe to be the most commonly circulated) suffered from a few flaws (2 skips, some choppy dead-air edits between tunes, and some unbalanced as well as low levels).  I cleaned all these up as best I could with Wave Lab 4.0 and the result is a nice improvment over the original.  As you will hear, there are still a few spots where the board feed falls off in the left channel occasionally, but it's not too much of a distraction.

As for the guest appearances, the Bruuuce.com setlist site lists something different than I have here.  It is apparent from the music, as well as Bruce's between-song comments that there are more people on the stage for a few of these songs than is listed on the setlist page.  Perhaps someone who was there and witnessed this show could set the record straight for all of us.  In the meantime, enjoy this one!
Tim


Bruce Hornsby & The Range
JFK Stadium
Philadelphia, PA
1989-07-07

Source:   2 x Nak 301's > D5 by Bruce Barnum
Transfer: MC (TDK MA 90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
          Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off
Master:   Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-26.6 dBFS), remove DC offset) > FLAC 2496

Thanks to Joe B. Jones for help with pitch correction.

01. // Western Skyline
02. Train To Cry
03. Night On The Town
04. Mandolin Rain
05. Look Out Any Window
06. Another Day
07. Every Little Kiss
08. Defenders Of The Flag
09. Jacob's Ladder
10. The Way It Is
11. Valley Road

Opened for Grateful Dead. Premiere of "A Night on the Town."

The very beginning of Western Skyline is missing, and there is a little tape overloading at the beginning of Western Skyline and occasionally elsewhere.  Tape flip after Every Little Kiss, no music missing.

Bruce Barnum was a Deadhead and an avid taper from the early 1980’s until his death in 2017 at age 48.  Over the years, he taped dozens of Dead shows throughout the Northeast, as well as other concerts, some of which have not been heard since then.  After his death, about 60 of his master cassettes turned up in a used record store in Hudson, NY, where some had been bought by random people nostalgic for the days of cassettes.  The rest were purchased by a fellow Deadhead and archivist.  Bruce’s daughter, Jessica, had more, and was kind enough to lend them to be digitized.  Many of these recordings sound excellent for their age.  They are Bruce's legacy.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-01-21


Bruce Hornsby & The Range
JFK Stadium
Philadelphia, PA
1989-07-07

Source:   2 x Nak 301's > D5 by Bruce Barnum
Transfer: MC (TDK MA 90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496
          Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off
Master:   Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-26.6 dBFS), remove DC offset, reample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

Thanks to Joe B. Jones for help with pitch correction.

01. // Western Skyline
02. Train To Cry
03. Night On The Town
04. Mandolin Rain
05. Look Out Any Window
06. Another Day
07. Every Little Kiss
08. Defenders Of The Flag
09. Jacob's Ladder
10. The Way It Is
11. Valley Road

Opened for Grateful Dead. Premiere of "A Night on the Town."

The very beginning of Western Skyline is missing, and there is a little tape overloading at the beginning of Western Skyline and occasionally elsewhere.  Tape flip after Every Little Kiss, no music missing.

Bruce Barnum was a Deadhead and an avid taper from the early 1980’s until his death in 2017 at age 48.  Over the years, he taped dozens of Dead shows throughout the Northeast, as well as other concerts, some of which have not been heard since then.  After his death, about 60 of his master cassettes turned up in a used record store in Hudson, NY, where some had been bought by random people nostalgic for the days of cassettes.  The rest were purchased by a fellow Deadhead and archivist.  Bruce’s daughter, Jessica, had more, and was kind enough to lend them to be digitized.  Many of these recordings sound excellent for their age.  They are Bruce's legacy.

Enjoy!

--mhg :: 2022-01-21


SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
26929	1989-06-24	Town Park	Telluride	CO
SBD> Cassette Master> DAT> CD-R> EAC> Wave Lab 4.0> FLAC
155388	1989-07-07	John F Kennedy Stadium	Philadelphia	PA
FLAC 2496 Source: 2 x Nak 301's > D5 by Bruce Barnum Transfer: MC (TDK MA 90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496 Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off Master: Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-26.6 dBFS), remove DC offset) > FLAC 2496
155389	1989-07-07	John F Kennedy Stadium	Philadelphia	PA
FLAC 1644 Source: 2 x Nak 301's > D5 by Bruce Barnum Transfer: MC (TDK MA 90) > Nak Dragon > Tascam DA-3000 (DSF 1-bit/5.6 MHz) > Tascam HRE > PCM @ 2496 Recorded w/ Dolby B on; playback with Dolby off Master: Wavelab 11 (tracking, levels, DDI Codec / Dolby B (-26.6 dBFS), remove DC offset, reample, Lin dither) > FLAC 1644

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