My recording from this show will be up eventually. It just might take a few weeks.

9/25 ETA: I’m going to have to put off posting this recording indefinitely. I just don’t like how it sounds and I don’t have the editing skills needed to make it post-able, IMO. Sorry to get people’s hopes up.

Maybe at some point I can get some help with the editing and I will post it then. We’ll see.

The Paul Thorn Band
The Little Fox Theatre, Redwood City, California
August 9, 2009

source: SP-CMC-20>SP-SPSB-9>Edirol R-09
location: balcony, center, mics clipped to the rail.
conversion: R09>>CD Wave>flac frontend
taper: T&Jam (tandjam@hotmail.com)

Hear samples of the recording HERE.

Lead vocals, guitar: Paul Thorn
Drums: Jeffery Perkins
Bass: Doug Kahn
Keyboards: Michael Graham
Electric guitar: Bill Hinds

Disc 1

1. Long Way From Tupelo >> banter “..My washing machine’s tore up back home..”
2. Are You With Me
3. Double Wide Paradise
4. banter ‘…first job at McDonalds..’
5. Mood Ring
6. Banter ‘…laundry..’
7. I’m Still Here
8. Crutches
9. banter ‘if they don’t come back, they’re off doing it with somebody else..’
10. Every Little Bit Hurts
11. Better Days
12. Hammer and Nail
13. banter ‘…musicians leaving stage…’
14. Temporarily Forever Mind
15. banter ‘…she came just to toy with my emotions…’
16. I Bet He Knows

Disc 2

1. banter >>Honky Tonk Neanderthal
2. Everybody Wishes
3. banter ‘…it appears as if everything is fine, but it aint…’
4. Pimps and Preachers
5. banter
6. Black Rainbow
7. What Have You Done to Lift Somebody Up
8. Weeds In My Roses
9. banter …introducing the band…
10. Aint Love Strange
11. banter (during the show, the audience has been taking up a collection to help Paul out with his washing machine! Here an audience member presents the collection bucket to Paul…)
12. I Have a Good Day
13. Lovers Vacation
14. Mission Temple Fireworks Stand
15. crowd noise…calling for encore…
16. Burn Down The Trailer Park
17. Rise Up

Download FLAC
HERE.

Download MP3’s
HERE.

Audience recordings of live music are always FREE. Never pay for audience recordings.

What I like about Paul Thorn’s songs is their honesty, truth and humor. ‘Real’ is the word that comes to mind again and again.

‘Intimate’ and ‘fun’ are the words that come to mind when I remember the show he played at the Little Fox Theatre in Redwood City August 9th, 2009.

I had a great time at this show, and I will never miss Paul Thorn when he comes to town again. (I really wish he would come to the San Francisco Bay area more often.)

The set list with a few audio samples from that night:

Long Way From Tupelo
Are You With Me
Doublewide Paradise
Mood Ring
I’m Still Here

Crutches
Every Little Bit Hurts

Better Days Ahead
Hammer and Nail
Temporarily Forever Mine

I Bet He Knows

Honky Tonk Neanderthal (this one has a lot of banter before the song starts, but it’s worth it!)

Everybody Wishes
Pimps and Preachers
Black Rainbow

What Have You Done To Lift Somebody Up
Weeds In My Roses (new song)

Ain’t Love Strange

I Have A Good Day
Lovers Vacation
Mission Temple Fireworks Stand

Encore:
Burn Down the Trailer Park
Rise Up

(The downloads of the show should be up over the weekend.)
ETA: The Downloads are up!

Another stolen picture of Davy at an unknown show.

Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
Stubb’s, Austin, Texas
July 28, 2009

source: SP-CMC-20>SP-SPSB-9>Edirol R-09
location: mics clipped to glasses, center, a few feet from the stage
conversion: R09>>CD Wave>flac frontend
taper: T&Jam (tandjam@hotmail.com)

Hear samples in my recap post: HERE.

Guitar, vocals: Davy Knowles
Bass: PK
Drums: Steve Barci

Disc 1
1. intro instrumental number (name?) ( I accidentally cut off the first 20 seconds. Sorry.)
2. Riverbed
3. Tear Down The Walls
4. Almost Cut My Hair
5. Come Home
6. Gotta Leave
7. Outside Woman’s Blues
8. Coming Into Los Angeles
9. Coming Up For Air

Disc 2
1. What In The World
2. Soul Serenade
3. Commotion
4. -stage banter-
5. Walk On Hot Coals
6. Keep On Searching
7. -stage banter-
8. new song…name unknown
9. –crowd noise calling for encore and some banter-
10. It’ll All Come Around

16 bit flac files:
HERE.
Mp3’s:
HERE.

Audience recordings of live music are always FREE.

Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam at Slim’s in San Francisco, September 6th, 2009.

Nice poster, too.

stolen placeholder pic until Art hooks me up with his cell phone pic from the show

It was a hot show: hot as hell inside the lower level of Stubb’s in Austin, Davy’s tea was hot, and of course the music was hot, with Davy burning up the strings and melting faces all night long.

Each time I listen to the recording of the show I am blown away all over again.

Here’s some samples:

What In the World (Rory Gallagher)

Commotion (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Coming Up For Air

Walk On Hot Coals (Rory Gallagher)

New song…unknown title…?

Downloads of the entire show should be up over the weekend.

ETA: The downloads are up HERE.

Taylor Hicks
Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta, Georgia
August 16, 2009

source: Tascam DR-1
conversion: Tascam DR-1>CD Wave
taper: LindaT

Guitar, harmonica, vocals: Taylor Hicks
Keys, backing vocals: Brian Less
Acoustic guitar: John Kulinich
Bass: Jason Parker

Hear samples of the recording HERE.

Disc 1

1. The Distance
2. I Live on a Battlefield
3. Wedding Day Blues
4. The Deal
5. What’s Right is Right (Tupelo Honey tag)
6. Banter
7. Banter> Don’t Let Me Down
8. Banter>Runnaround (Doraville tag)

Disc 2

1. Banter> Nineteen
2. Gonna Move (Lodi tag)
3. Banter
4. Banter
5. Banter> Maybe You Should
6. Banter> Once Upon a Lover
7. My Sweet Lord
8. Why Does Love Got to be So Sad

Missing song: Seven Mile Breakdown.
Some wind noise from overhead air-conditioner on a few tracks.

Download 16 bit FLAC files HERE

Download MP3 files HERE

A million thanks to LindaT! Thanks for sharing and for letting me post this here!

Audience recordings are ALWAYS free.

(Photo credit: rajrae, on the Boogie Board)

When Linda T let me know a short while ago that she was getting her first recorder and jumping into taping, I was pretty excited.

When she dropped one of her first shows in my mailbox, I was thrilled!

Check out a sample of new taper extraordinaire Linda T’s August 16th 2009 audience recording of Taylor Hicks:

Battlefield

Don’t Let Me Down

Runnaround

‘A Blues tune…an old Tibetan folk singer song’ (Gonna Move)

So, what do you think? Pretty good, right?

Thanks to Linda T, downloads will follow shortly!

Ok, I’m going to be honest: I have no idea when I can get the last three shows posted. It could take six months, who knows? I’m swamped. Davy, Lyle and Paul are going to have to just wait.

In the meantime, I can’t get this song out of my head. Heard it on the radio and instantly fell in love. Caleb Followill’s voice has my heart.

So the Kings of Leon have been around a while, sure. I just haven’t paid them much attention because I was listening to other things…I was going another direction the last few years. But now their direction has crossed with my direction and I’m finally paying attention. I’m liking almost everything I’m finding. I like their older stuff, I like the newer stuff, I like this band.

I like something on the radio. Wow.