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JAMES TAYLOR
New York 1970 [no label, 2CD]
Live at The Jabberwocky, Syracuse, New York; February 6, 1970. Very good soundboard.
Comments posted at Dime:
This is the concert you should have if you can only own just one bootleg from JT. These concerts are a jewel from the early times of James Taylor, and the quality of these records is excellent. The Jabberwocky sessions were a series of eight concerts James gave at Syracuse University during the 5th, 6th and 7th of February 1970. Apart from his own songs, JT sings a lot of beautiful covers, and do plenty of talk displaying a wonderful sense of humor.
Jeff Chard:
I guess I’m the one to clarify the question about the dates of the James Taylor shows. I was concert coordinator at SU during the early ’70s, and music director of WAER, the SU college station. James was at Jabberwocky, a 200-seat basement club on the Syracuse University campus, for three nights in Feb 1970. On Thursday night, 2/5, he did two sets. Friday 2/6 and Saturday 2/7 were three-set nights each. I taped all eight sets on my reel-to-reel via a soundboard patch, with James’ permission. One set was broadcast live on WAER.
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Thanks to Eddie Burks for the compilation; and to the person who shared the tracks on the net in 2006.
Thanks also to Chris Shepherd, who transferred the second set.
Lineage:
Set 1: SBD > ? > CDR > EAC (offset -565) > WAV > SHN
Set 2: SBD > MR > DAT
Transfer: Panasonic SV 3800 > Prodif + card > Samplitude Producer 6.0 (fades) > CDWav (tracks) > mkw > shntool (boundaries varified)
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Disc 1 (Set 1)
Track 101. Rainy Day Man (James Taylor & Zachary Weisner) 4:24 (7.4MB)
Track 102. Diamond Joe (trad) 3:03 (5.1MB)
Track 103. Things Go Better with Coke (1950’s Ray Charles Tune) 1:44 (2.9MB)
Track 104. Machine Gun Kelly (Danny Kortchmar) 4:13 (7.1MB)
Track 105. Anywhere Like Heaven 3:09 (5.3MB)
Track 106. Fire And Rain 3:47 (6.4MB)
Track 107. Circle Round The Sun (trad) 3:10 (5.3MB)
Track 108. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Alvin P Carter) 3:03 (5.1MB)
Track 109. Carolina On My Mind 3:38 (6.1MB)
Track 110. Sunshine Sunshine 3:32 (5.9MB)
Track 111. Dixie (Daniel Decatur Emmett) 1:50 (3.1MB)
Track 112. Hallelujah (I Love Her So) (Ray Charles) 3:32 (6.0MB)
Track 113. Blossom 3:27 (5.8MB)
Track 114. Sunny Skies 3:08 (5.3MB)
Track 115. Brighten Your Night With My Day 2:18 (3.9MB)
48 mins
Disc 2 (Set 2)
Track 201. Pretty Boy Floyd (Woody Guthrie) 5:27 (9.2MB)
Track 202. Yesterday (Lennon & McCartney) 4:11 (7.0MB)
Track 203. Steamroller Blues 4:49 (8.1MB)
Track 204. Country Road 4:59 (8.4MB)
Track 205. Duncan and Brady (trad) 4:56 (8.3MB)
Track 206. Hush-a-Bye (Jesse Colin Young) 3:39 (6.1MB)
Track 207. Something In The Way She Moves 3:15 (5.5MB)
Track 208. Taking It In 3:28 (5.8MB)
Track 209. If I Needed Someone (George Harrison) 2:50 (4.8MB)
Track 210. Sweet Baby James 3:13 (5.4MB)
Track 211. People Get Ready (Curtis Mayfield) 2:35 (4.4MB)
Track 212. Sunshine Sunshine 3:23 (5.7MB)
Track 213. Diamonds In The Rough (Alvin P Carter) 4:03 (6.8MB)
51 mins
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