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James Taylor
Jabberwocky Sets
Syracuse, New York
February 6th + 7th, 1970
Disc One:
Friday, February 6, 1970 2nd set of evening
1. Rainy Day Man
2. Diamond Joe
3. Coke Ad
4. Machine Gun Kelly
5. Anywhere Like Heaven
6. Fire and Rain
7. Circle 'Round the Sun
8. Will the Circle be Unbroken
9. Carolina in My Mind
10. Sunshine, Sunshine
11. (I Wish I Was in) Dixie
12. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
13. Blossom
14. Sunny Skies
15. Brighten Your Night with My Day
Disc Two:
Friday, February 6, 1970 3rd set of evening
1. Pretty Boy Floyd
2. Yesterday
3. Steamroller
4. Country Road
5. Duncan and Brady
6. Hush-A-Bye
7. Something in the Way She Moves
8. Taking it In
9. If I Needed Someone
10. Sweet Baby James
11. People Get Ready
12. Sunshine, Sunshine
13. Diamond in the Rough
Disc Three:
Saturday, February 7, 1970 2nd set of evening
1. Country Road
2. Steamroller
3. Pretty Boy Floyd
4. Sunny Skies
5. Sunshine, Sunshine
6. Sweet Baby James
7. Duncan and Brady
8. Carolina in My Mind
9. (I Wish I Was in) Dixie
10. Blossom
11. Something's Wrong
12. Anywhere Like Heaven
Disc four
Saturday, February 7, 1970 3rd set of evening
1. Brighten Your Night With My Day
2. Hush-A-Bye
3. Coke Ad
4. Knockin' 'Round the Zoo
5. Tube Rose Snuff Song
6. Circle 'Round the Sun
7. Rainy Day Man
8. Something in the Way She Moves
9. Satisfied Mind
10. Yesterday
11. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
12. Carolina in My Mind
13. Diamonds in the Rough
14. Sweet Baby James
This early JT show (recorded the same week as "Sweet Baby James" hit the stores (and just
before James’ career took off) should be heard by everyone who has ever remotely liked
James Taylor -- it's warm, it's inviting, it's personal and it's magnificent! (yeah, I REALLY
like it -- you will, too!)
So put a log on the fire, pour yourself a glass of wine, dim the lights, put your feet up, close
your eyes and drift away with James to February, 1970 . . . and soak in the magic.
Notes on this version:
I began this remastering project after receiving a copy of this outstanding show in a trade a number
of years ago. Unfortunately, the copy I received, though of extremely high quality, contained a few
glitches and one incomplete song, “Anywhere Like Heaven” at the end of disc three, which cut off
after about 50 seconds. Little did I realize that my quest for a complete copy of this show would
take me nearly 20 additional trades and hours of editing to complete. But here for all of you to
enjoy, are the fruits of my efforts.
During my search I encountered several different versions of these shows in varying quality. All
the tracks on this version are from the highest quality copies I received. The last track on disc
three, “Anywhere Like Heaven” is of slightly lower quality than the other tracks (probably 1 or 2
generations removed), but may not be noticeable to many listeners. For some reason, this track
was hard to locate as it does not appear on most versions. My best guess is that it became
corrupted during an early seed of the show and most versions were circulated without it.
I am new to torrents, so please forgive any errors on my part and please feel free to help me out
with tips and suggestions. I normally maintain all music files in my collection as WAV files with cue
sheets to delineate tracks. Apparently, torrents are upped as separate tracks without a cue sheet.
Presumably, they can be reassembled into a single WAV file after downloading the torrent, but I am
unclear how to do that and still obtain a cue sheet. Please feel free to educate me on that subject.
I have maintained the sets on 4 separate files/discs so each set will be complete in and of itself – as
it was originally performed. Again, because I am new to torrents I will up each set separately, with
the others to follow shortly after I know the first one has gone smoothly.
All digital editing was performed in a program called Dart XP Pro and you may notice that the levels
seem a bit low, but I left them that way deliberately to maintain the full dynamics of the original
recordings as I received them. I do not recall doing any equalization on these sets nor did I apply
any noise reduction. I split the WAV file using the “split WAV by cue sheet” function in EAC. Given
that it is EAC, I would imagine that was done cleanly and properly.
If I have omitted any other required information, please let me know and I will append it to the
torrents for the remaining sets.
This is one of my all-time favorite shows. It captures James just as “Sweet Baby James” was about
to be released and before his name became known to millions.
I hope you enjoy these sets as much as I do.
CDTraderJohn
November 2009
I found this posting at TapeCity explaining the origin of these recordings:
Subject: re: james taylor 1970 shows
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 98 17:51:19 -0400
I guess I'm the one to clarify the question about the dates of the James Taylor shows. I was
concert coordinator at S.U. during the early 70s, and music director of WAER, the S.U. 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.
Of the eight masters, I only retained four. The sound company was still getting up to speed on
Thursday and the first set of each weekend night also had levels all over the place and mike stands
thumping on stage when James tapped his foot. Plus, there was a lotta duplication.
So that's the story.
Regards,
Jeff Chard
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