REELTIME TRAVELERS
01-22-2004 (Thursday)
Romig Junior High School Gymnasium
Anchorage, Alaska
L-R: Thomas Sneed, Brian Riggle, Leigh McKenzie, Heidi Andrade, Martha Scanlan, Roy Andrade, Selita Rios, Chip Russell, Pastor Tim
Stream - Individual mp3’s - Zip
For lossless FLAC files, use ftp to look in drive 1 for
rtt2004-01-22_sbd.flac16
Source: KAD onstage single-mic + bass pick-up + Shure SM-57 (caller) > Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro soundboard > xlr cables > Tascam DA-P1 DAT (48 kHz).
Transfer: master DAT/Tascam DA-20mkII > PC harddrive via coax digi-cable > Audiophile 2496 soundcard > Sound Forge 6.0 (edits*, normalized to -16dB, fades added, resampled to 44.1 kHz) > CD Wave Editor (sector boundaries checked, tracking) > Flac Frontend (level 8).
* The square dance instruction portions were edited out to focus on the performance.
Heath Spott was foh sound engineer.
Recording & mastering by Pastor Tim (YonderArchive @yahoo.com) on January 24, 2009.
Please share in lossless FLAC format; mp3 for personal use only.
Please do not convert to tin type, 78 RPM, or Edison wax cylinders.
Thanks!
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Disc 1 – Set 1 [57.45]:
01. Too Young To Marry [fades in] 1.31
02. Martha Campbell 4.45
03. Walkin’ In The Parlour 7.00
04. Old Molly Hare 7.57
05. Black Eyed Susie 7.19
06. The ‘Moose’ Walk 9.00
07. band intros 1.52
08. June Apple 10.23
09. Bear Creek Blues 3.58
10. Swananoah Waltz 3.56
Disc 2 – Set 2 [55.23]:
01. square dance instructions 1.24
02. instrumental 10.23
03. Louisiana Swing 5.17
04. instrumental 14.21
05. instrumental 7.24
06. Kiss Me Quick, Papa’s Coming 12.02
07. Farewell To Thurber 4.29
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REELTIME TRAVELERS:
Martha Scanlan: guitar
Thomas Sneed: mandolin
Heidi Andrade: fiddle
Roy Andrade: banjo
Meredith McIntosh (of Ida Red): upright bass
with Jim Haack: square dance caller
THE STORY
[copied from my original post to the Reeltime Travelers YahooGroup]:
Hey now, folks –
It’s 1:30 AM Alaska time and we’re back at Selita & Brian’s place following a wonderful evening with Reeltime Travelers and Anchorage’s “Dancing Bears.”
After spending the morning trying to figure out whether or not the Anchorage Folk Festival was just an elaborate inside-joke designed to lure us to Alaska (believe me, these folks do NOT believe in over-promoting their shows), we arrived at Romig Junior High School only to see Roy & Heidi climbing out of a van. Yeee-haw, RTT’s actually here! I admit, we’d been starting to wonder. Five minutes of instant soundcheck later and the dance was underway.
Now lest you think this was your typical hippie flailing dance, we beg to correct. Think more along the lines of… well, LINES! It was a full-on contra dance, and these people were having a grand old time with their alleman-lefts and box-the-sets and swing-your-partner homes. The caller for the show was Jim Haack, and in some ways it was really his show with RTT playing some tasty and lengthy instrumental dance jams. By the way, tonight’s bass player was none other than Meredith McIntosh, so you called that one, Kurt! Meredith is the partner of John Hermann, who played bass on RTT’s 2nd cd — you own it, right??? — and she stayed up after last week’s Ida Red sets. (Kurt, we’ll check on taping status from last weekend but I’d say it’s a long shot. We had some serious hassles for even taping tonight — not from the band, of course! — but we won’t go into that melodrama in a teapot right now.) The band played for three hours of dancing, and we got a few RTT tunes as a teaser for tomorrow night’s appearance at Wendy O. Williams Hall… oops, I mean Williamson Hall. The Bear Creek Blues tonight was really fun and we got a couple of waltzes too. Our setlists are a bit of a shamble but we know they also played Too Young To Marry, Martha Campbell, Walkin’ In The Parlour, Old Molly Hare, Black-Eyed Susie, and The ‘Moose’ Walk (aka Deer Walk).
I can’t even describe the energy expended by those dancers, they were unbelievable! At one point Chip was watching the dancers and he said, “I couldn’t do this with the state I’m usually in,” but I pointed out to him that we’d never been IN this state before. [chuckle...] I’ve never seen anything like that in my life — those dancers were having SOOOO much fun, and they also seemed VERY appreciative of the band’s energy and music. I’m sure LOTS of them will be out for the concert appearances tomorrow and Sunday.
Well, it’s almost 2 AM and both Leigh & Chip are giving me crap for posting a freaking dissertation, but hopefully SOME-one out there is enjoying the posts of 3 Old Farts in Alaska. We’ll spill the beans as often as we can, but I must close by making public thanks to the amazing hospitality of Selita & Brian — man, Girdwood is GORGEOUS!!! More tomorrow! And glad you’re all along for the ride!
Much Love,
+ Pastor Tim
p.s. Sorry it took me 5-1/2 years to get this shared. Hope you enjoy it, Leigh. Thanks, Chip.
