John Deere Tractor

08 Sharecropper's Son

04 That Home Far Away

03 Open Up Them Pearly Gates

This is a song about the memories I have of my departed mother, who inspired us as children and made our hearts grow light as we neared the end of a long day's road trip to Chautauqua Institution (the Inspiration for St. Elmo's Fire starring the Brat Pack") and topped the hill in Mayville, NY.  There we were treated to the long awaited glimpse of Chautauqua Lake sparkling with sunshine.  She would make a game of who could spot the lake first.  Even at the end of a long day's drive the excitement of it would thrill us, lifting our tired spirits and restoring joy.  That was only one of the ways she did that throughout our lives.  This song pays tribute to her for her ever-present inspiration.

Our Mother's Gift

Billy Strings
Wonder Ballroom
Portland, Oregon
2015-11-05

RECORDIST: Mark Burgin tapermarkATyahooDOTcom
SOURCE: post matrix 
#1 XLR Soundboard>Segue Dogstar interconnects>Grace Design Lunatec V2>Hi Ho Silver interconnects>Sound Devices 744t.
#2 #1 Busman Audio K23 hypercardioid's~>BST54 tubes~>GAKables interconnects~>power supplies~>Segue Dogstar interconnects~>Grace Design Lunatec V2~>Hi-Ho Silver shorty interconnects~>Sound Devices 744t.
MICROPHONE LOCATION: fob, dfc, 40 feet from stage approx., about 10 feet high
MICROPHONE CONFIGURATION: : DINa, 90 degrees 17 cm
RECORDED FORMAT: 24 bit, 48 kHz
CONVERSION: Sound Devices 744t>firewire>PC.
EDITING: Magic Samplitude Pro X (mixed to stereo, normalization, eq and compression applied)
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DITHER: N/A
FINAL FORMAT: 24 bit, 48 kHz
TRACKING: CD WAV 1.98
COMPRESSION: TLH 2.7.0 Build 172 flac (level 8)
SBE VERIFICATION: TLH 2.7.0 Build 172
TAGS: Foobar2000 v1.2.8

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set 1: [49:47]

01 Intro [0:32]
02 My Rag~>Black Mountain Rag [4:28]
03 Nashville Blues [2:54]
04 Wild Bill Jones~> [4:02]
05 Shady Grove [3:37]
06 Cocaine Blues [3:40]
07 You Won't Be Satisfied That Way [2:40]
08 I'm Alabama Bound [4:20]
09 Way Down The River Road~>Salty Dog [4:48]
10 Rose Of Old Kentucky [3:18] *
11 Oh The Wind And Rain [6:26] *
12 Dust In A Baggie [4:15] *
13 Little Maggie [4:42] *

William Apostol: guitar and vocals

* With Paul Hoffman on mandolin, Michael Arlen Bont on banjo, Anders Beck on dobro & Mike Devol on bass

Setlist courtesy of Lucas White

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