Martin Sexton
8.19.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] (A81WS screens) > Active Cables > MBP 603A > GAKables Interconnect > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. The Star-Spangled Banner
2. Freedom of the Road
3. Livin’ the Life
4. There Go I
5. Failure
6. Happy
7. Found
8. Boom Sh-Boom
9. Candy
10. Diggin’ Me
11. The Way I Am
12. Things You Do to Me
13. Glory Bound
14. With a Little Help From My Friends
15. Diner
16. Black Sheep > This Little Light of Mine

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

(Photo by Jeremy Cowart.)

Arthur Lee Land
8.20.2011
Wildflower Pavilion, Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source: Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Cracked Open
3. After the Eclipse
4. Do You Ever Think of Me?
5. Beg Steal or Borrow
6. Dragonfly
7. Into the Waters
8. Good Enough
9. Drum and a Chair

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Carolina Chocolate Drops
8.21.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] (A81WS screens) > Active Cables > MBP 603A > GAKables Interconnect > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Riro’s House
3. Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind
4. Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
5. Diddle Box
6. Run Mountain
7. Briggs’ Corn Shucking/Camptown Hornpipe
8. No Man’s Mamma
9. It’s a Good Thing
10. I Truly Understand (That You Love Another Man)
11. Poor Black Sheep
12. Polly Put Your Kettle On
13. Snowden’s Jig (Genuine Negro Jig)
14. Why Don’t You Do Right
15. Old Cat Died/Brown’s Dream
16. Hit ‘Em Up Style
17. Sourwood Mountain
(Encore)
18. Read Em, John

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band
8.20.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Other Side
3. Good Man
4. Wolves
5. Right Moves
6. Folk Bloodbath
7. Rattling Locks
8. Harrisburg > Once in a Lifetime > Harrisburg
9. Galahad
10. Thin Blue Flame
11. Monster Ballads
12. Kathleen
13. Change of Time
14. To the Dogs or Whoever

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

(Photo by Allister Ann.)

The Civil Wars
8.21.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] (A81WS screens) > Active Cables > MBP 603A > GAKables Interconnect > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Tip of My Tongue
3. Forget Me Not
4. From This Valley
5. 20 Years
6. You are My Sunshine
7. I’ve Got This Friend
8. Barton Hollow
9. Falling
10. Oh Henry
11. I Want You Back
12. Birds of a Feather
13. banter
14. Disarm
15. Billie Jean
16. My Father’s Father
17. Dance Me to the End of Love
18. C’est la Mort
19. Poison & Wine

FLAC files are available via BitTorrent at COtapers.

Brandi Carlile
8.19.2011
Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, CO

Source:  MBHO KA200N [DINa] (A81WS screens) > Active Cables > MBHO MBP 603A > GAKables Interconnect > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. (Alli Drum Solo)
2. Dreams
3. Closer To You
4. What Can I Say
5. Jackson
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. Keep Your Heart Young
8. Caroline
9. A Promise To Keep
10. Cline and Wynette banter (D-I-V-O-R-C-E tease)
11. Crazy
12. Raise Hell
13. Before It Breaks
14. Have You Ever
15. Turpentine
16. The Story
(Encore)
17. Pride and Joy
18. 80′s Medley
19. Forever Young
20. Hallelujah

FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Elvis Perkins in Dearland is hitting the road next week in support of their self-titled sophomore release, and the tour will include two stops here in Colorado:

May 08 – Hi-Dive, Denver, CO
May 09 – B Side Lounge, Boulder, CO

Seeing these dates surface convinced me to dust off another 2006 Folks Festival recording.  This performance occurred six months before the release of Ash Wednesday, so most of us festivarians were unprepared for the brilliance that lay ahead.

Elvis Perkins in Dearland
8.19.2006
Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass, Lyons, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > CoolEdit Pro > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

One Disc:
1. intro
2. While You Were Sleeping
3. Hey
4. Emile’s Vietnam in the Sky
5. All the Night Without Love
6. The Rain Song
7. Impromptu and Variations on a Theme by Phil Spector
8. Doomsday
9. Ash Wednesday
10. Shampoo
11. The Night & The Liquor
12. Sleep Sandwich
13. May Day
14. 1-2-3 Goodbye

FLAC files can be downloaded via BitTorrent at cotapers.
A single zipfile of the mp3s is available here.

Here’s a Jeff Tweedy solo show I taped a few years back at the Folks Festival in Lyons.  I know this recording has made the rounds before, but every time it gets posted, there seem to be people interested in grabbing it.

Jeff Tweedy
8.18.2006
Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Planet Bluegrass, Lyons, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > Firewire > CoolEdit Pro > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. (intro)
2. What Light
3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
4. Remember The Mountain Bed
5. Was I (In Your Dreams)
6. Butterfly (So Much Wine)
7. The Ruling Class
8. Blasting Fonda
9. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
10. Airline To Heaven
11. Please Tell My Brother
12. Hesitating Beauty
13. Theologians
14. Passenger Side
15. Shot In The Arm
(Encore)
16. (intro)
17. Walken
18. (fragment of Elizabeth Cotten song)
19. Losing End
20. California Stars
21. In Christ, There Is No East Or West
22. New Madrid
23. I’m The Man Who Loves You
24. Acuff Rose

FLAC files can be downloaded via BitTorrent here.
Zipfiles of the mp3s can be downloaded in two sections:  Part 1, Part 2.