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The Yardbirds And Sonny Boy Williamson - Live At The Craw-Daddy 1963 (Compleat Records Cpl-2-2002 1984 24-96 Needledrop)(Chris8519) (1963)

Track listing:
  1. Boom Boom 2:28
  2. Honey In Your Hips 2:31
  3. Who Do You Love 4:15
  4. Let It Rock 2:21
  5. Talkin' About You 1:56
  6. I Wish You Would 5:57
  7. Smokestack Lightnin' 6:52
  8. You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover 2:59
  9. Take It Easy Baby 4:12
  10. Bye Bye Bird 3:38
  11. Mr. Downchild 3:56
  12. The River Rhine 5:24
  13. 23 Hours Too Late 5:08
  14. A Lost Care 2:14
  15. Pontiac Blues 3:49
  16. Take It Easy Baby 5:41
  17. Out On The Waterfront 3:08
  18. I Don't Care No More 3:45
  19. Western Arizona 3:02

Notes

The Yardbirds and SonnyBoy Williamson
Live At The Craw-Daddy 1963
This edition released on:
Compleat Records 1984
CPL-2-2002

01 - Boom Boom
02 - Honey In Your Hips
03 - Who Do You Love
04 - Let It Rock
05 - Talkin' About You
06 - I Wish You Would
07 - Smokestack Lightnin'
08 - You Can't Judge A Book By looking At The Cover
09 - Take It Easy Baby
10 - Bye Bye Bird
11 - Mr. Downchild
12 - The River Rhine
13 - 23 Hours Too Long
14 - A Lost Care
15 - Pontiac Blues
16 - Take It Easy Baby
17 - Out On The Waterfront
18 - I Dont Care No More
19 - Western Arizona

Tracks 1 and 5 are Studio Releases
Tracks 9 - 19 are with SonnyBoy Williamson

Recorded in 2 days in December 1963 at The Craw-Daddy, London UK.

----About The Recording----
There is a commercially available German-release CD that is incomplete
and sounds terrible. Too much hiss-reduction was applied to the recording,
and it left the sound flat, and with that swirling crappy-mp3 compression sound.

I recently bought this Near-Mint pressing at my local record shop.
When I dropped the needle, I could instantly tell the difference!
I decided to digitize it, apply no noise reduction besides a soft crackle reducer,
and share it! This is a wonderful concert(s), and even thought it's coming off of vinyl, this edition sounds MUCH better!

Interesting notes about the pressing:
It is admittedly full of errors. The entire 3rd side is unevenly panned to the left, and much quieter. There are numerous 'clicks' from the microphones/soundboard that were not removed. The pressing is sometimes extremely hot-- that ISN'T my cart/preamp overloading, it's the recording itself! I did not attempt to correct any of these errors, as I wanted to maintain exactly what the record is: what you hear is what I get.

This is my second (and improved) rip of the release. Since the original, I have upgraded literally every part of my system:
AT440MLA> Technics SL1200mk2> Musical Fidelity V-LPS> Creative Soundcard @24/96> Audigy
Processing:
Light click reduction with Click Repair (10-30, Rev, x.2)
Downsampled to 16-bit with iZotope RX

Enjoy!