AMERICAN TOUR LATE 1989 VOL.3

Disc One: Tuning, 2. Blues In The Morning, 3. I Wonder Why, 4. Goin’ South.

Disc Two: 1. Band Introduction, 2. Red House, 3. Semolina, 4. Boogie Man, 5. Can’t You Here Me Knocking, 6. Outro.  

This release presents the 2^nd show from Cambridge in late October 1989, for this show too there were 2 sources:

-        Source #1 from a video

-        Source #2 a great recording, said to be a soundboard, but audience in my opinion, from unknown lineage.

A nice result was obtained merging both sources, there have been 2 versions released: Volume 03a with the soundboard version and Volume 03b with the merged version, which is what is reviewed here. In particular on Disc One the Tuning comes solely from the video, on Blues In The Morning

the first 17 seconds and from 0’35 to 0’43 come solely from the video, the rest is merged.

On Disc Two on the Band Introduction the last seconds come from the video, on Red House

the first 12 seconds come from the video, the Outro comes solely from the video.

Here the video source is on the left channel and was used as speed reference; the alternate soundboard/audience recording has been accelerated by +4% and is on the right channel. As usual both sources have been de-clicked and the phase upgraded. This is an excellent recording with emphasis on Taylor’s side, however the other guitar and the vocals are low in comparison. It must be said there is excellent stereo separation though and that makes this a great concert to listen to.