The John Renbourn Group (trio)
John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Tony Roberts
(abbreviated trio line-up for their brief 1st USA tour*)
1980-10-10 New York City, New York WBAI 99.5 FM Studios (M3-pre-FM studio)
Interview by Ed Haber & LIVE IN STUDIO MUSIC performances
Broadcast 1981-04-xx with added DJ comments, prior to their 2nd USA tour
*~* Officially released album cuts deleted (including background music with voiceovers) *~*
01. --interview--
02. John Barleycorn (live in studio**)
03. --interview--
04. So Early In The Spring (live in studio)
05. --interview--
06. The English Dance (live in studio)
07. --interview--
08. My Johnny Was A Shoemaker (live in studio***)
Total Time of uploaded interviews & live tracks ::: 54:24
::: EXC quality studio recording. Samples provided for: Thomas the Apostle descendants aka Doubting Thomas's, newcomer initiations or advance jollies.
::: Warts: No real probs! Tad o' hiss. Occasional mike noises. "The English Dance" had 12 seconds of tape chew warble but 'tis mostly fixed.
::: *Short tour trio version of The John Renbourn Group (Keshav Sathe & John Molineux not present).
::: Promoting their new album, "The Enchanted Garden" (out for a some months in the UK but just issued in the USA).
::: 4 songs live in studio 1980-10-10 (John Barleycorn/So Early In The Spring/The English Dance/My Johnny Was A Shoemaker).
::: Radio program prepared for the next tour (with the entire band) in April 1981 to promote shows at Folk City (see below).
::: **voiceover intro & outro of song // ***voiceover intro of song.
::: Actual program title unknown. Circa '81/82 Ed's regular weekly slot (titled?) was Saturday 9:30-11:00AM, but he also had 2 other monthly shows.
::: 'Twas Jacqui McShee's (short) first USA tour in 8 years - since Pentangle had broken up.
::: Since they're not included, I didn't worry much about the exact album trax titles that were omitted - "as is" list below.
Recording Information ::: WBAI-FM Studios -> master studio reels -> 1st generation "program master mixdown" pre-FM broadcast stereo reel -> 2nd generation cassette, no noise reduction -> 3rd generation Maxell MX-S 100 metal cassette, Dolby B on.
Playback 2011-12-30 ::: 3rd generation Maxell MX-S 100 metal cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby XB on, azimuth adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer, EAC secure -> wavs.
Remastering 2014-12-xx ::: wavs -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, volume adjustments, -1.3% averaged single pass speed fix after spectral analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. First uploaded week of 2014-12-25.
Band Line-up ::: John Renbourn - acoustic guitar, vocals // Jacqui McShee - vocals // Tony Roberts - Northumbrian small pipes, flute.
Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.
DimeTravel 080 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! ::: Corrections welcome ::: One does feel for the pre-digital studio DJ, Ed Haber, hard at work here, with many fewer tools to combat mike noise & assorted crackles & warts in the recordings & sort out levels... It wasn't easy! Always enjoyable to hear Ed doing his job - way pre-internet days & a very knowledgeable guy & quite comfortable with the musicians & the setting. The music & interview segments were recorded on 1980-10-10 for later broadcast. They were very likely not used at all in 1980, but kept for April 1981 - the week prior to the New York City shows (the following tour). Several DJ dialogues were recorded for the '81 broadcast but the intro & outro are deleted here due to voiceover officially released material. In total, about 5 minutes of talk was deleted due to commercially released music playing in the background - interview material, part of the intro & the entire outtro. This is well worth having anyway, as it still includes almost 40 minutes of interviews, plus 4 tracks recorded live in WBAI Studios. Perhaps one of the more interesting things in the interview is the mention of recordings that were made (very possibly studio tapes from the sound of it) with John Renbourn & Shirley Collins playing together, presumably circa 1978-79. To my knowledge, these have never seen the light of day. Let us hope that is rectified before long! For that matter, we can also hope for more of the studio tapes that Renbourn made in the early 70s that were used for "The Lost Sessions", featuring some of most psychedelic music that he has ever issued. There's very little around from this trio line-up, so get into the groove & enjoy the passing of time.. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yers truly, Knees
The ORIGINAL complete tracklist looked something like this: 01. OMITTED/OFFICIAL "The Maid On The Shore" John Renbourn Group (The Enchanted Garden) // 02. --DJ 1981 intro for 1980 interview-- // 03. --interview-- // 04. OMITTED/OFFICIAL "Cold Mountain" Pentangle (45) // 05. --interview-- // 06. John Barleycorn (live in studio) // 07. OMITTED/OFFICIAL __title?__ John Renbourn (Black Balloon?) // 08. OMITTED/OFFICIAL __title?__ (album track) // 09. OMITTED/OFFICIAL "The Plains Of Waterloo" John Renbourn Group (The Enchanted Garden) // 10. --station ID & announcement for April 10&11, 1981 NYC Folk City gigs-- // 11. --interview-- // 12. So Early In The Spring (live in studio) // 13. --interview-- // 14. OMITTED/OFFICIAL __title?__ (album track) // 15. --interview-- // 16. OMITTED/OFFICIAL "The Buffalo Skinners" John Renbourn (Faro Annie) // 17. --interview-- // 18. The English Dance (live in studio) // 19. --interview-- // 20. My Johnny Was A Shoemaker (live in studio) // 21. OMITTED/OFFICIAL __title?__ (album track) --also included entire 1981 DJ outro voiceover--.
Support the artists! www.johnrenbourn.co.uk -- (Jacqui McShee) www.pentangle.info/JMPentangle/HOME.html -- www.myspace.com/pentangle
Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!