Date: 2008-10-01
Band: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
RoIO: Raising Sand with the Belle of Bluegrass
Venue: Wamu Theater
Place: Seattle, Washington
Tracks: 21
Total Length: 1:50:21
The Machine - Raising Sand with the Belle of Bluegrass (MCD047)
Core Sound cardioid mics > Microtrack II - 24bit, 96kHzWAV > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Flac (sector aligned - level 6)
Robert Plant - lead vocals
Alison Krauss - lead vocals, fiddle
T Bone Burnett - guitars, vocals
Buddy Miller - guitars, mandolin, autoharp
Stuart Duncan - guitars, fiddle, banjo, mandolin
Dennis Crouch - bass

Mooner's notes:
Was it the WaMu/RP-AK speaker sys? Or a fiendish corporate stab at tapers? Or a set of mics grossly mismatched for the type of audio they were meant to capture? I don't know. But mastering this show was beyond my abilities. Like some of the previous audience recordings of this tour, bass mysteriously avoided being captured. Frequencies that would come and go, abnormal and stunted ranges, stage output that barely made 18kHz... I could bitch all night. So I asked Marooned from Echoes Hub to arm wrestle this into shape. He pulled it all together into a listenable state. Many thanks Marooned.
This was a satisfying show, albeit a little heavy on the treble side since the only bass instrument was a standup bass. But pairing Plant with Krauss is like watching Granny Clampitt wave to you from the trunk of an Enzo . One or two songs fused well (Battle Of Evermore) but the rest just had great backing vocals.
Kashmir was not played...
- Mooner
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Disc 1
1. Rich Woman
2. Leave My Woman Alone
3. Black Dog
4. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
5. Through the Morning, Through the Night
6. Goodbye and So Long to You
7. Fortune Teller
8. In the Mood - Matty Groves (fused)
9. Black Country Woman
10. Earlier Baghdad (the Bounce)
11. Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson
Disc 2
12. Wildwood Flower
13. Down To The River To Pray
14. Nothing
15. Battle Of Evermore
16. Please Read The Letter
17. Gone Gone Gone
18.
19. You Don't Knock
20. One Woman Man
21. Your Long Journey
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Recorded by Mooner
Digitally Mastered by Marooned
Artwork by Marooned
Seeded on The International Echoes Hub - http://www.echoeshub.com
