NORTH AMERICA SUMMER TOUR 1986 VOL.2

1. Intro, 2. I’m A Blues Man, 3. Sweet Home Chicago, 4. Love Me Or I’ll Kill You Baby, 5. Further On Up The Road, 6. Born In Chicago, 7. Turn On Tour Love Light, 8. Band Introduction, 9. Unidentified Piano Instrumental, 10. Unidentified Piano Boogie Woogie, 11. Sweet Little Angel, 12. The Stumble, 13. Got My Mojo Working, 14. Big Boss Man.  

For this second volume of the series, there were several versions coming from the same source: some incomplete (4), others misdated and attributed to East Lansing, MI (2). The most complete recording, with a good sound and a complete spectrum, seems to come from Dime from the taper himself. In reference to the other versions and the previous volume, this recording ran a little slow and had to be accelerated by +5.5%. According to the notes “the total duration is 79'57 but it should be possible to burn it on a single cd-r”, but it was not and the only solution has been to edit the intro by 5 seconds. The sound had been re-centered a bit more (phase) which also slightly amplified it and the transitions between the titles have been reworked so that they start with the songs (at least when there was no cut between the titles).

In detail: on Further On Up The Road there was a short gap before the next track as well as on Turn On Your Love Light. The Unidentified Piano Instrumental (which reminds Bridge Over Troubled Waters) featured a David Bennet Cohen solo while on the Unidentified Piano Boogie Woogie there were David Bennet Cohen with Colin Allen at the end. On Sweet Little Angel there was a short gap before the next track while on Got My Mojo Working there was a gap probably during the encore . This is a great recording of a wonderful show.