Location unknown, date as reported is unverified, 1st and 2nd Shows, soundboard.
Lou Terriciano, piano; Freebo, bass (and kazoo); Maria Muldaur, harmony vocals; David Nichtern, electric guitar
In July of 2004 I received this info:
I got a copy of this from a trader who told me he dubbed it from a reel to reel to audio cdr. This might account for the track markers. I also have copies of the opening act Maria Muldaur for 1 if not both of her opening sets. I was told this is from a set of old reels that were purchased at a garage sale for I believe $1 each. There were some other rare perfomances with the garage sale reels including Mance Lipscomb, John Jackson, Robert Pete Williams, Skip Spence and Dave Bromberg. The source is likely in the Cambridge MA area as it was given as the location from some of the tapes. All were apparently recorded in later 1972.
Etree lists the venue as Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT but Bonnie mentions "Cambridge guys". Setlist on etree has some incorrect titles, correct titles are below.
It appears that someone did a haphazard hack at some source tapes (bad track indicies, etc,) and made these CDs. The production is poor but the source quality and performance are outstanding, especially considering the age.
The voice track is skewed mostly to the right channel and the bass track is mostly in the left channel; otherwise an excellent recording (clean and crisp).
There are several abrupt track transitions, one track is repeated, one track is silence.
18-Aug-02 I (Kevin) spent several hours and edited these source CDs into a more pleasant 2-CD version of this collection. I removed the silence and duplicate track, patched the two-part track back together and removed 10-15 minutes of them tuning up (they needed to re-tune after nearly every track). I suggest you get that one instead, it's a lot more listenable. I do have a copy of the original three source CDs if you want them for some reason.
The second set probably starts with Love Me Like a Man. I trusted the setlists at etree, but I suspect that they attributed what was on the first source CD as being the first set when in fact it is simply what would fit off the reel onto one CD.
CD1 - 76:56 01 Love Me Like A Man 02 That Song About The Midway 03 Rollin' and Tumblin' 04 You Got To Know How 05 Nothing Seems To Matter 06 Big Road 07 Kokomo Blues 08 Special Delivery Blues 09 Bluebird 10 [ 15 seconds of silence ] - what a great idea to include this track! 11 Stayed Too Long At The Fair 12 Women Be Wise 13 Love Has No Pride 14 Walk On By 15 Blender Blues 16 Love Me Like A Man CD2 - 79:58 01 Can't Find My Way Home 02 Rollin' and Tumblin' 03 Any Day Woman 04 [ aborted song ] 05 [ track 3 over again ] 06 You Gotta Know How 07 Under The Falling Sky / I Ain't Blue 08 Big Road 09 Nothing Seems To Matter 10 Bluebird 11 Walking Blues 12 [ 15 seconds of chat ] 13 Since I Fell For You 14 Women Be Wise 15 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man 16 Baby What You Want Me To CD3 - 79:57 (only about 10 minutes is Bonnie) 01 Baby What You Want Me To - overlap with last track of CD2 02 I Know remaining tracks are another artist, perhaps Arlo Guthrie 04 Stealin' (?) - 05 Alice's Restaurant 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14