Robyn Hitchcock & The Sadies – Jewels From The Vault

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Robyn Hitchcock & The Sadies

“Jewels From The Vault”

2015-09-13

The Drake Underground

Toronto, ON Canada

Lineage:

Church-Audio CA-11/C (mk II) microphones > STC-9100 stereo preamp > Edirol T-09HR [24/48]

Processing:

– Hard limit and envelope applause, volume boost + track splits in Audacity

additional processing for FLAC:

– resample to 16/44.1 in r8brain

– fix SBE’s in Trader’s Little Helper

– convert to FLAC (level 7) in FLAC frontend

– edit tags in Tag & Rename

Setlist:

“Sweetheart of The Rodeo” [The Byrds covers, via various original artists as noted]

01. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere [Bob Dylan cover]

02. [banter]

03. I Am a Pilgrim [trad. arr. McGuinn/Hillman]

04. The Christian Life [Louvin Brothers cover]

05. You Don’t Miss Your Water [William Bell cover]

06. You’re Still on My Mind [Luke McDaniel cover]

07. [banter + switchover]

08. Pretty Boy Floyd [Woody Guthrie cover]

09. [banter]

10. Hickory Wind [Gram Parsons cover]

11. One Hundred Years from Now [Gram Parsons cover]

12. [banter]

13. Blue Canadian Rockies [Cindy Walker cover]

14. [banter]

15. Life in Prison [Merle Haggard cover]

16. [banter]

17. Nothing Was Delivered [Bob Dylan cover]

selections from “Stage Fright” [The Band covers]

18. [banter]

19. The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show

20. Stage Fright

21. The Rumor

22. [encore break]

more “Jewels From the Vault”

23. [banter]

24. Astronomy Domine [Pink Floyd cover] >

25. Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd cover]

26. I Wanna Destroy You [The Soft Boys cover]

27. Queen of Eyes [The Soft Boys cover]

28. [applause + curtain call]

Total Time = 1:13:43

Recorded by Mechanical Forest Sound – MFS Master #2472

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Recording: Robyn Hitchcock & The Sadies

Artist: Robyn Hitchcock & The Sadies

Songs: You’re Still on My Mind [Luke McDaniel cover, via The Byrds] + One Hundred Years from Now [Gram Parsons cover, via The Byrds] + Lucifer Sam [Pink Floyd cover] + I Wanna Destroy You [Soft Boys cover]

Recorded at The Drake Underground, September 13, 2015.

This was about the fifth or sixth year that Robyn Hitchcock has made an annual stop in the basement at The Drake, with the last few being multi-night mini-stands, where RH would show off his super-deep catalogue by playing for two or three nights in a row without repeating a song. This year saw a couple nights of solo balladeer action, but this Sunday-night closer was a special one-off, seeing Hitchcock being backed by specialists-in-all-styles The Sadies in a night billed as “Jewels From The Vault”.

That was a hint that there’d be covers a-plenty, but all expectations were surpassed when the set turned out to be a start-to-finish recreation of The Byrds’ iconic country-rock foundation-stone Sweetheart of The Rodeo. This night was a follow-up to the same pairing covering The Band’s Stage Fright in full at the Winnipeg Folk Festival earlier this year, and a few selections from that were played, as well as a pair of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd tunes. Dipping into Hitchcock’s own back pages to finish with rocked-up versions of The Soft Boys’ “I Wanna Destroy You” and “Queen of Eyes” was just icing on the cake. And all of it was delivered with Hitchcock’s signature surrealistic élan, whether musing on the poles of the karmic wheel or making an impassioned tribute (in French!) to his cup of tea with soy milk (“sans vache”). As always, an annual highlight.

[As there are just too many gems to pick from here, I’ve gone ahead and uploaded the entire set to the Live Music Archive, so you can stream or download the whole thing there.]