(Outside the venue, the first snowfall of the year, which prompted the addition of ‘Snow Days’ in the set!)
(All photos by Matt Albertsen)

Real Estate
January 16, 2012
The Met
Pawtucket, RI

Taping Rig (4-channel matrix recording):
Soundboard Feed + RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 7′, inside mixing booth, stage left) > Tascam DR-680 [PCM WAV 24-bit/96kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic/line levels = Flat] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: It’s Real

1. Green Aisles
2. Fake Blues
3. Municipality
4. Basement
5. Easy
6. Wonder Years
7. It’s Real
8. Younger Than Yesterday
9. Kinder Blumen
10. Exactly Nothing
11. Out of Tune
12. All the Same

(encore)
13. (Banter)
14. Snow Days

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-Head over to Domino’s official web site to buy Real Estate’s most recent album, ‘Days’ on LP, CD, or even cassette. Also be sure to check out their upcoming tour dates and go see them if they come to your area! And don’t forget that ‘Easy’ will be released on 7″ vinyl, and the B-side is “Exactly Nothing,” which was played at this show. Be sure to pick it up!
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Cass McCombs
December 31, 2011
Rabb Lecture Hall at Boston Public Library
Boston, MA

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 7′, clamped to table in front of first row, on right side / 6′ from PA stack) > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 (Very light compression w/ boost added, to raise db on quieter songs) > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: My Sister, My Spouse

1. (Intro)
2. My Master
3. Angel Blood
4. My Sister, My Spouse
5. Robin Egg Blue
6. County Line
7. Equinox
8. Bradley Manning
9. Bobby, King of Boys Town
10. That’s That
11. Home Out on the Range
12. Dearest Darling [Bo Diddley cover]

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-Head over to Domino’s official web site to buy Cass McCombs’ records. That’s not a suggestion, that’s an order. The ‘Bradley Manning’ 7″ comes out later this month, and will hopefully be up for pre-order soon. Also, Cass and his band are hitting the road for a tour in January. Go to his Facebook page for a list of tour dates.
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(Photo by Bob Beaumont)

The Felice Brothers
December 30, 2011
Daniel Street
Milford, CT

Taping Rig (4-channel matrix recording):
Soundboard Feed + RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 8.5′, clamped to soundboard ledge) > Tascam DR-680 [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 (Delay issue resolved)> CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: Take This Bread

1. Murder By Mistletoe
2. Fire at the Pageant
3. Honda Civic
4. Wonderful Life
5. Run Chicken Run
6. Harvest Moon [Neil Young cover]
7. Back in the Dancehalls >
8. Endless Night
9. Whiskey in My Whiskey
10. White Limo
11. Ponzi >
12. Take This Bread
13. What a Wonderful World [Thiele/Weiss, made famous by Louis Armstrong]
14. Cus’s Catskill Gym
15. Love Me Tenderly
16. Saint Stephen’s End >
17. River Jordan

(encore)
18. Frankie’s Gun!
19. Two Hands [Townes Van Zandt cover]

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-Do your part to support this excellent and very taper-friendly band by heading over to their online shop to pick up some shirts and records!
-This show was put on by Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
-Check out some words on this show and last thoughts on Daniel Street on Yellow Lit.
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2011 was a great year for concerts in CT, and for Connecticut Recordings! We met our goal of covering more shows than the year before, and are very proud of the content we offered this year. To celebrate, we’re having a giveaway!

Josh Ritter @ Daniel Street, 6/17/11 was our most downloaded show of the year, and to commemorate, we are giving away a FREE copy of Josh’s most recent LP, “So Runs the World Away” on vinyl (it includes a CD inside, too!). All you have to do to enter is head on over to our Facebook page and “Like” our page, and then let us know what YOUR favorite show from 2011 was, in our Facebook post about this giveaway. It’s as simple as that! We’ll pick a winner randomly out of a hat on New Year’s Day. Oh, and if we didn’t mention, this album is GREAT.

Thanks to all of our visitors and supporters! See you in 2012!

Tristen
December 8, 2011
Daniel Street
Milford, CT

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 8′, clamped to soundboard ledge) > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: Eager for Your Love

1. Eager for Your Love
2. Detective
3. Save Raina
4. Wicked Heart
5. Tadpole
6. The World is on Fire
7. Doomsday
8. Pep Talk
9. Avalanche
10. Don’t Let Me Cross Over [with Buddy]
11. Salty Tears

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-In case you missed out on your chance to buy Tristen’s superb LP ‘Charlatans at the Garden Gate’ at the show, buy it online over at American Myth’s web site. You will be oh so happy you did.
-This show was put on by Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
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Justin Townes Earle
December 8, 2011
Daniel Street
Milford, CT

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 8′, clamped to soundboard ledge) > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: Passing Through Memphis in the Rain

1. Passing Through Memphis in the Rain (new song)
2. Ain’t Glad I’m Leavin’
3. They Killed John Henry
4. Mama’s Eyes
5. One More Night in Brooklyn
6. Ain’t Waitin’
7. Christchurch Woman
8. My Starter Won’t Start
9. Am I That Lonely Tonight? (new song)
10. Trying to Move On (new song)
11. Workin’ for the MTA
12. Halfway to Jackson
13. Harlem River Blues [with Tristen & Buddy]

(encore)
14. Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now (new song)
15. Wanderin’

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-Do yourself a favor and go to Bloodshot Records’ official web site to purchase JTE’s albums!
-This show was put on by Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
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(Photos by Matt Albertsen)

Beirut
November 26, 2011
Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
Providence, RI

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones (At 9′ LOC, clamped to soundboard railing) > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: The Gulag Orkestar

1. Scenic World
2. The Shrew
3. Elephant Gun
4. Vagabond
5. Postcards from Italy
6. Santa Fe
7. A Sunday Smile
8. East Harlem
9. Forks and Knives (La Fête)
10. Nantes
11. Port of Call
12. Cherbourg
13. Goshen
14. After the Curtain
15. Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)

(encore)
16. The Penalty
17. My Night with the Prostitute from Marseille
18. The Gulag Orkestar
19. (Instrumental)

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Check out Midheaven’s online store to purchase Beirut’s releases!
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Xiu Xiu
September 14, 2011
Aetna Theater at Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: House Sparrow

1. Bunny Gamer
2. Gray Death
3. The Fox & The Rabbit
4. 20,000 Deaths for Eidelyn Gonzales, 20,000 Deaths for Jamie Peterson
5. Daphny
6. F.T.W.
7. Hi
8. House Sparrow
9. Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel The Soil Falling Over My Head)
10. (new song)
11. (new song)
12. I Broke Up

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-Head on over to Polyvinyl’s web site to buy Xiu Xiu’s most recent LP and 7″!
-This show was put on by Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
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Surfer Blood
October 31, 2011
Palace Theater
Waterbury, CT

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: Take it Easy

1. Floating Vibes
2. Twin Peaks
3. Harmonix
4. Miranda
5. Voyager Reprise
6. Take it Easy
7. (new song)
8. Catholic Pagans
9. (new song)
10. Swim
11. Anchorage

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-Be sure to go to Kanine Records’ web site to buy the new Surfer Blood EP ‘Tarot Classics’ — there is a deluxe version available on colored vinyl!
-This show was put on by Premier Concerts, in association with Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
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White Fence
October 19, 2011
BAR
New Haven, CT

Taping Rig:
RØDE NT5 matched pair condenser microphones > Tascam DR-100 (via XLR) [PCM WAV 16-bit/44.1kHz -- Low mic gain, Mic levels = 10/10] > Adobe Audition 3.0 > CD Wave > EAC (V0 MP3 via LAME external compressor) > mp3 > MP3Tag

Sample: Enthusiasm

1. Mr. Adams >
2. Who Feels Right?
3. The Love Between
4. Baxter Corner
5. Growing Faith
6. The Pool
7. Enthusiasm
8. (new song?)
9. Lillian (Won’t You Play Drums?)
10. Harness
11. Get That Heart
12. Sticky Fruitman Has Faith

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-Be sure to go to Woodsist Records’ web site to buy White Fence Is Growing Faith on vinyl!
-This show was put on by Manic Productions — check their web site to see a schedule of upcoming events!
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